Channel 9’s Australian Crime Stories: The Investigators turns its lens on a perplexing case in its upcoming “Stolen Lives” episode: the story of Bruce Burrell, a killer with a taste for the spotlight, convicted of two murders despite the victims’ bodies never being recovered.
The episode centers on the disappearances of Dorothy Davis in 1995 and Kerry Whelan in 1997. Both cases initially seemed impossible to crack. No bodies. No witnesses. No DNA to tie anyone to the crimes. Yet, Detective Dennis Bray and his team, through painstaking investigative work, managed to piece together enough circumstantial evidence to secure Burrell’s conviction.
“Stolen Lives” focuses on their methods, revealing the dogged determination and sharp instincts required to solve one of Australia’s most baffling kidnapping cases. How did they build a case against a media-savvy killer who seemed to have planned the perfect crime?
Australian Crime Stories: The Investigators “Stolen Lives” airs Monday, February 24, 2025, at 9pm on Channel 9.
