Bronwyn
by The Australian
Latest episode
The Poisoned Wife – and a cop who didn’t buy her husband’s story
The Poisoned Wife – and a cop who didn’t buy her husband’s story
About this podcast
The Teacher’s Pet creator Hedley Thomas returns with a new podcast investigation for The Australian.
Bronwyn Winfield disappeared 31 years ago from the idyllic surf town of Lennox Head. She was a devoted mother of two little girls, and was going through a painful separation from her husband, Jon Winfield.
Jon Winfield has always maintained Bronwyn just went away and denies any wrongdoing.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 45 episodes
- The Poisoned Wife – and a cop who didn’t buy her husband’s story · 17 minJournalist Hedley Thomas joins us with a special insight into where his blockbuster podcast investigation The Poisoned Wife is heading. After the 1986 murder of Rosslyn McQueen…
- Hedley Thomas’ new podcast: Sick To Death · 18 minA blockbuster new podcast from The Australian and our investigative star reporter Hedley Thomas: Sick To Death is the horrifying true story of a surgeon who made catastrophic…
- Episode 36: Forever Loved · 1 h 29 min · Season 3 Episode 36In the final episode for some time, the owners of a Sydney property learn that the missing mother’s remains may have been concealed under concrete there. Andy, Michelle and Madi…
- Episode 35: Home Truths · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 35Megan performs a dramatic backflip by changing her evidence about Jon’s moves in Sydney in the hours after his wife Bronwyn’s disappearance. Megan expresses doubts about whether…
- Episode 34: A Cautionary Tale · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 34Retired detective Glenn Taylor who has worked harder on Bronwyn’s case than any other police officer faces a problem. Will his video-taped formal interview in Ballina’s police…
- Episode 33: The Legal Veil · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 33After a break of almost three months between episodes, Andy and Michelle come away from a meeting for the loved ones of homicide victims with newly found patience and confidence…
- The Gangster's Ghost Episode 1: Dead Man Talking · 44 minThe family of slain gangster Stewart John Regan has been frustrated by an unwillingness on the part of the NSW Police Unsolved Homicide Unit to share information about its…
- Episode 32: Finally, A Finding · 1 h 27 min · Season 3 Episode 32After a bizarre last ditch bid by Jon Winfield to curry favour from a Ballina detective, the coroner heading the inquest into Bronwyn’s presumed murder sums up the case against…
- Listen to The Australian's new podcast The Gangster's Ghost · 2 minJohnny 'The Magician' Regan was a murderer, pimp and psychopath, gunned down by three assassins in a grimy back lane in 1974. He was 29. In this new investigative podcast, The…
- Episode 31: The Memory Hole · 1 h 13 min · Season 3 Episode 31Jon’s daughter Jodie returns to the witness box for a searching cross examination on Day 4 of the inquest.She volunteers that she looked in the boot of the Ford Falcon on the…
- Episode 30: Mountains And Molehills · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 30Did Bronwyn have a secret boyfriend with whom she was having a clandestine relationship before he spirited her away from her daughters and her Lennox Head home? Was Jon’s…
- Episode 29: Out Of Character · 1 h 7 min · Season 3 Episode 29Bronwyn’s state of mind and powerful maternal instincts for her two daughters face a determined challenge as Jon’s side depicts the missing mother in a negative light. Bronwyn’s…
- Episode 28: The Lawyer's Picnic · 1 h 7 min · Season 3 Episode 28Jon’s lawyer Craig Leggat does his homework, analysing witness statements and other documents to discover significant and inconsequential flaws in the evidence. He knows that if…
- Episode 27: Megan's Court Showdown · 1 h 17 min · Season 3 Episode 27Bronwyn’s friend and cousin Megan Read drops new bombshells while under oath on Day 2 of the inquest. Megan gives evidence at the coronial inquiry about having been told by Jon…
- Episode 26: No Way In The World · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 26The inquest into Bronwyn’s disappearance hears that when detective Glenn Taylor attended Jon and Bronwyn’s former family home at Lennox Head, dozens of photographs lined the…
- Episode 25: Inquest Begins · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 25For more than 140 years, the Lismore courthouse has stood firm through a procession of natural disasters. Withstanding everything nature has thrown at the town, the courthouse…
- Episode 24: Listener Night · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 24In this special live event recorded at the Art Gallery of NSW on a warm late summer evening, listeners and Bronwyn's family gather for a Q&A with the podcast team, including…
- Episode 23: Will Power · 1 h 13 min · Season 3 Episode 23News of Jon Winfield’s windfall and changes to the Will of his near-neighbour, Bev, shock the Lennox Head community and galvanise Bev’s friends and relations. Bev’s cousin Cathy…
- Episode 22: Suburban Gothic · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 22Lennox Head locals are suspicious of Jon’s motives with a well-off elderly woman who lives alone and has a terminal illness. Jon has been spending a lot of time at her…
- Episode 21: Concrete Evidence · 1 h 10 min · Season 3 Episode 21Investigations reveal Jon’s fast work to get federal government welfare payments diverted from Bronwyn’s bank account to his account when she went missing. The single parent…
