{"id":38191,"date":"2026-06-25T06:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/38191\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:21:13","slug":"podcaster-tobias-nuttall-jailed-for-life-for-murder-of-girlfriend-in-her-perth-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/38191\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcaster Tobias Nuttall jailed for life for murder of girlfriend in her Perth home"},"content":{"rendered":"

A conspiracy theorist podcaster who stabbed his girlfriend to death with a 25-centimetre-long dagger in her suburban Perth home has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 18 years.<\/p>\n

WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.<\/p>\n

Tobias Marcus Nuttall was 32 when he stabbed Alisha Lauren Hendren-Krippner, 30, multiple times in her Bassendean home in August last year.<\/p>\n

Justice Amanda Forrester said Nuttall had attacked her in a “vicious, uncontrolled and completely disproportionate manner” and there was no excuse for what he had done.<\/p>\n

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Alisha Lauren Hendren-Krippner was stabbed to death in a “vicious” attack by her boyfriend in her Perth home.\u00a0 (ABC News: David Weber)<\/p>\n

She said general deterrence was important because too many women were being killed by men who lost control of themselves and lashed out.<\/p>\n

Nuttall called Triple Zero and told emergency services he had stabbed Ms Hendren-Krippner, who later died in hospital.<\/p>\n

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Tobias Nuttall has been sentenced in the WA Supreme Court after admitting murdering his girlfriend. (Supplied: Anne Barnetson)<\/p>\n

Police found the 25-centimetre-long bloodstained dagger at the scene.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court heard “no explanation was provided” to police by Nuttall, who later claimed he was “coming down” off methylamphetamine at the time of the killing.<\/p>\n

He pleaded guilty to murder earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Messages to father<\/p>\n

The prosecutor told the court that on the day of the murder, Nuttall and Ms Hendren-Krippner had flown back to Perth from Sydney.<\/p>\n

At Perth airport, Nuttall sent messages to his father, claiming he had “encountered narcissism at a level that is difficult to fathom”.<\/p>\n

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Tobias Nuttall later claimed he was “coming down” off methylamphetamine at the time of the killing. (Facebook: Tobias Nuttall)<\/p>\n

He also said in the messages that he was in a “fairly evil situation” and wanted to talk, telling his father he loved him.<\/p>\n

Ms Hendren-Krippner’s parents provided victim impact statements referring to the pain and ongoing sadness of their loss.<\/p>\n

“The silence now is unbearable,” Kelvin Krippner said in his statement.<\/p>\n

Conspiracy podcaster<\/p>\n

At the time of the murder, Nuttall was a co-host of an online podcast self-branded as a deep dive “into the realms of conspiracy, the occult, magic, spirituality and everything clandestine”.<\/p>\n

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The judge told the court there was no excuse for what Tobias Nuttall had done. (YouTube)<\/p>\n

“As two inquisitive minds on a quest for truth, they pull back the curtains of the mundane to reveal a world bubbling with mysteries, hidden agendas, and esoteric knowledge,” the podcast description read.<\/p>\n

Previous podcast episodes covered topics including cults, satanic rituals, demonic possession, the JFK files, Kanye West, extraterrestrial connections, and the Pyramids of Giza.<\/p>\n

A few days after Nuttall was arrested, his co-host released an episode without him saying “the podcast is not going to move forward any longer with Toby”.<\/p>\n

The co-host acknowledged Nuttall had been charged with “a very, very serious offence over in Perth”.<\/p>\n

The podcast is still active and publishing episodes without Nuttall.<\/p>\n

‘I feel vile’<\/p>\n

Defence lawyer Simon Watters told the court Nuttall had read the victim impact statements and felt a tremendous sense of guilt.<\/p>\n

Mr Watters said his client’s words were “I feel vile, I feel regret.”<\/p>\n

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Tobias Nuttall must serve a minimum of 18 years behind bars, backdated to August.\u00a0 (Facebook: Tobias Nuttall)<\/p>\n

Justice Forrester said it was likely Nuttall and Ms Hendren-Krippner had used drugs the night before the murder.<\/p>\n

She said Nuttall claimed that Ms Hendren-Krippner had “instigated” the fatal confrontation, but his plea of guilty to murder showed he was not claiming self-defence.<\/p>\n

The court heard he had claimed to have “wrestled her to the ground” and thought he stabbed her three times.<\/p>\n

Couple were separating<\/p>\n

Nuttall, who was born in WA, had been abused by a teacher when he was at school, at the age of nine, the court heard.<\/p>\n

While working at a service station in New South Wales, he was run over by a vehicle and suffered a back injury that resulted in ongoing pain and PTSD.<\/p>\n

Nuttall returned to WA in 2025 and started a postgraduate teaching course and a podcast, and met Ms Hendren-Krippner.<\/p>\n

Justice Forrester said the couple were in the process of breaking up in August last year.<\/p>\n

She detailed Nuttall’s drug history, describing his amphetamine use as “severe”.<\/p>\n

References provided to the court on his behalf described him as “intelligent, curious, kind and loving”.<\/p>\n

Nuttall had no prior criminal record.<\/p>\n

He has to serve a minimum of 18 years behind bars, backdated to August, before being eligible for parole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A conspiracy theorist podcaster who stabbed his girlfriend to death with a 25-centimetre-long dagger in her suburban Perth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31656,31653,31654,2770,335,466,463,13876,31657,31658,31655,465,464],"class_list":["post-38191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-bassendean","tag-conspiracy","tag-conspiracy-theory","tag-murder","tag-perth","tag-perth-courts","tag-perth-news","tag-podcast","tag-podcast-murder","tag-tobias-marcus-nuttall","tag-tobias-nuttall","tag-wa-courts","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}