Vikki Petraitis (born 1965) is an Australian

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author, based in

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Media

Petraitis regularly speaks on the ''Australian True Crime'' podcast hosted by

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and Emily Webb. In September 2019, Petraitis was interviewed by

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for their ''From the Files'' podcast titled ''From Frankston to Philip Island''. She was also instrumental in creating '' The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron'' – a 10-episode Australian crime podcast series released in 2020 covering the case. In 2021, she also created and narrated a 9-episode podcast on the disappearance of Sarah Macdiarmid.

Awards

Petraitis was nominated for the 2007 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for her book ''Forensics''. In 2007, she won the Scarlet Stiletto Award for Best New Talent for a fiction piece she wrote called "Side Window".

Books

* ''The Phillip Island Murder – the true account of a brutal killing'' (with Paul Daley), 1993, Kerr Publishing * ''Victims, Crimes and Investigators'', 1995,

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* ''The Frankston Murders – the true story of serial killer, Paul Denyer'', 1995, Nivar Press * ''The Great John Coleman'' (with Wayne Miller), 1998, Nivar Press * ''Rockspider – the danger of paedophiles – untold stories,'' (with Chris O’Connor), April 2000, Hybrid Publishers * ''On Murder II'' – (chapter: Serial Killers are Losers) Edited by

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, Black Inc, 2002 * ''Cops – True stories from Australian Police'', 2005, The Five Mile Press * ''Forensics – true stories from Australian Police Files'', 2006, The Five Mile Press * "The Frankston Murders and The Paedophile Witch" in ''Outside the Law'', 2008, The Five Mile Press *''Crime Scene Investigations – more stories from the Australian Police Files'', 2008, The Five Mile Press *''Salvation – the true story of Rod Braybon's fight for justice'', 2009, Jewel Publishing *The Russell Street Bombing, 2013, Clan Destine Press *''The Dog Squad – incredible true stories of courageous police dogs and their handlers'', 2015, Michael Joseph, *''Once a Copper: The life and times of Brian "The Skull" Murphy'', 2018, Wild Dingo Press *''The Frankston Murders: 25 Years On'', 2018 *''Inside the Law: 25 Years of True Crime Writing'', 2019, Clan Destine Press *''Cops, drugs, Lawyer X and me'' (with Paul Dale), 2020, Hachette Australia

References

External links

Author profile
Five Mile Press

Living people 1965 births Australian non-fiction crime writers Australian non-fiction writers People associated with true crime Scarlet Stiletto award winners Writers from Melbourne Women crime writers {{Australia-writer-stub