129. Hanging From A Cliff: The Crawford Family Murders

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode, Jen tells Cam about one of Australia’s most infamous cases.On July 2, 1970, tourists visiting the Loch Ard Gorge in Port Campbell see a yellow Hudson sedan 52 feet below the cliffs. Once the police bring the vehicle to safety, they discover the bodies of Therese(35), Kathryn (13), James (8), and Karen(6).The police suspect the deaths to be murder-suicide. But, things aren't always what they seem. When investigators enter the family home, they find a horrifying crime scene.Join us as we discuss this week's episode Hanging From A Cliff: The Crawford Family Murders.Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers. www.crimestoppersvic.com.auListener Discretion by Edward Octoberpod from Octoberpod VHS.Please check him out on YouTube and subscribe to his channel.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZQk-oAsjZNG18y8bX24c6wProducer and music theme by Nico Vettese. www.wetalkofdreams.comThis episode was written by the amazing Fern from Evidence of a Crime.Sources:https://www.amazon.com/Almost-Perfect-Crawford-Family-Murders/dp/1450285163/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/crawford-elmer.htmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5xhYa2g4PUhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_family_murderhttps://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5st557/the_crawford_family_murder_glenroy_austrailia/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5037065/Killer-Elmer-Crawford-believed-living-WA-outback.htmlhttps://twistedhistory.net.au/2018/07/01/murder-of-the-crawford-family-2-2/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za8i0JpD3p8https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-woman-holds-key-to-40-year-old-australian-murder-mystery-vp5m32c9qqz https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7890825/Irish-woman-holds-key-to-40-year-old-Australian-murder-mystery.htmlArticles from Newspapers.com: The Age, July 4th, 1970 – Murder Family: Husband SoughtThe Sydney Morning Herald, July 4th, 1970 – Four murdered, put over the cliffThe Age, July 6th, 1970 - ‘Lights’: New Lead in Cliff MurdersThe Sydney Morning Herald, July 6th, 1970 – Girls tell police: We saw a man at death homeThe Age, July 7th, 1970 – Seeking Glenroy HusbandThe Age, July 8th, 1970 – Search for him goes onThe Age, July 9th, 1970 – Irish Police Alerted on CrawfordThe Sydney Morning Herald, July 6th, 1971 – Killed wife, three childrenThe Age, June 24th, 1971 –... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How do you do?
0:01.5	Jen and Cam feel it would be unkind to present this program without a friendly word of warning.
0:07.3	We are about to unfold our true crime podcasts, a podcast of lifelong friends who seek to examine
0:15.0	crimes which were committed without reckoning upon God.
0:19.5	The discussion will be frank and the subject matter will be of a grim and violent nature.
0:25.2	I think it will thrill you.
0:26.9	It might even horrify you.
0:29.4	So, if they are young children listening or if you feel unwilling to subject your nerves
0:34.4	to such a strain, how's your chance to?
0:38.0	Well, we've warned you.
0:59.9	Hey Jen!
1:00.7	Hey Cam, how are you?
1:02.4	I'm great. How are you?
1:03.6	I'm hot. It's hot.
1:04.6	It's Missouri.
1:05.3	I'm hot.
1:05.8	It's really humid and it doesn't help that it's about to storm any second now.
1:09.8	We've been having a great time today trying to record because Cam's internet keeps on going
1:14.7	out because of the weather.
1:15.6	I guess that's the weather.
1:16.7	The last time this happened, drunk driver hit the cable box or whatever that is at the end of
1:20.7	the street and it took them like two weeks to get it fixed.
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