My Father's Crimes: Recent Episodes
Greg Tuchin
The story of a man who terrorized the women of Sydney, Australia, back in the 1950s. As told to me by my father Wally Tuchin, crime scene photographer in the Scientific Investigation Bureau
This story is about a bizarre near-death experience I had in the cold climate of Lapland in Finland
This is the story of how I derected a music video which made it to the top 30 in the US Billboard charts while I was an exchange student at Glassboro State College in 1983. Here is the link to the video on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txnd89_7c8E
The story about my brief encounter with pirates in Mexico. It was my first time crewing on a boat. I thought it might be my last.
Funny stories about the time I worked for the Norwegian Council back in the 70s in Tromso, the northernmost town in the world. WARNING: This episode contains swearing in Norwegian.
It looks like there might now be a Royal Commission into the Ghost Train Fire om 1979 due to suspected police corruption. My Dad and I have a long history with Luna Park. He used to help out as a policeman and I worked there for 6 years. Here is a personal background into the fire from a different perspective.
I've had lots of jobs during my life. By far the most bizarre is my short career in nude modelling. It's a funny story. I hope you like it.
I've had hundreds of different jobs but this was the worst mistake I have made in any of those jobs. Was I fired. Should I be fired. I will let you be the judge.Let me kno, thumbs up or thumbs down. It's a very story, especially if you are into skiing or snowboarding.
Wally was never phased by the horrific crime scenes he had to photograph. I put that down to his tough childhood. In this episode I tell you all about it and let you be the judge.
This case is probably the most baffling case in Australian crime. It took more than 40 years to solve. In this episode I look at the case from Dad's point of view through his involvement with it through the Scientific Investigation Bureau
Growing up with my father as a cop was not always easy. I had some fun doing some things with him that you would never get away with thesedays. As a kid I never knew about half the stuff that he did, but as and adult I can now look back at how amazing he was.
This episode is a funny Christmas story about an Irish Catholic family with 17 kids, who I spent two Christmaswith backinthe 1980s. They were a caring but dysfunctional family, a hilarious story I've told many friends over the years and was published in the Irish American magazine.
In the 1970s I was living as an illegal alien in the US. It is the only crime I have ever committed. Listen to this episode if you want to find out how I did it.
Dad and I both met Gough Whitlam, the former Prime Minister of Australia, decades apart. I met him in his later life but I found that his legendary wit was still the same. You be the judge when you listen to the story. I have posted a couple of photos from my meeting with Gough on the FB page.
During his time in the police force Dad saw lots of dumb things that crooks did. In this episode I talk about some of the dumbest
After working in Scientific, Dad went on to work in the NSW Highway Patrol where he encountered discrimmination and dodgey practices. I talk about thier quota system and foregin orders which were the norm back then circa 1964
Like my dad I went into imaging of crimes but I did it through hospitals and not the police. I also videoed many expeimental surgeries durng my 16 year career. In this episode I talk about some of the highlights and low lights.
Dad had to photograph many scenes where the victim found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. In this episode I talk about some of the unusual cases that Dad photographed along with the photos that he took
The Scientific Investigation Bureau thought they were working on the cutting edge of technology. By today's standards it's laughable but the guys in SIB did what they could. In this episode I talk about the introduction of colour photography at crime scenes and how old fashioned legwork was still the backbone of detective work
During Dad's career in crime scene photography, there were a lot of stuff-ups. Some were mechanical faults with the cameras, some were human error and some were just bizarre. This episode speaks about the culture of forensics back in the 1950s and what never went to court
All crime scenes are gruesome in some way but some affect the photographers more than others. These are the crime scenes that affected dad most. Almost seventy years on and he still remembers them like yesterday. A warning: some stories may be confronting to the listeners.
My father got into crime scene photography in a very unusual way. He was not even a photographer. This episode tells the story of his entry into the Scientific Investigation Bureau and the police culture of that time
Throughout Dad's 36 year career in the police he came across a few corrupt cops. This episode tells about the tricks they used to get convictions. It also speaks about the police culture of the 1950s and 60s and how they turned a blind eye to what was happening.
Every crime scene is unique but during Dad’s career as a crime scene photographer he was asked to photograph some bizarre cases.In this episode I tell the story of two of them: one involving a strange suicide and another and attempted suicide. A warning that if suicides affect you personally you may not want to listen to this episode but I feel that the stories are more interesting than confronting
This was the first kidnapping of its kind in Australia taken from my Dad's perspective and the involvement of the Scientific Investigation Bureau. It was one of the first cases were forensics played a major role in the tracking down of the culprit
In this episode I will talk about how I worked with forensics in identifying the bodies of murder victims including one of hitman Neddy Smith's victims
Dad had just started working in the Scientific Investigation Bureau, He was buddied up with an experienced officer on his first job. It was very gruesome but it gave Dad a valuable lesson about how the SIB worked and how they coped with trauma
My Dad was involved in the first conviction of a woman using Thallium, a common rat poison, to poison her husband. There was a whole series of Thallium poisonings in the 1950s,which was made into an ABC documentary Recipe for Murder. Dad's involvement was never included in the documentary so he gets his chance to put some of the record straight. This is from my short story which won the Thunderbolt Prize for non-fiction crime stories
The Kingsgrove Slasher - the story of a man who terrorized the women of Sydney, Australia, during the 1950s. As told by my father Wally Tuchin, Crime Scene Photographer for the Scientific Investigation Bureau