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173. Abduction at the Adelaide Oval : Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon

Our True Crime Podcast

Flanderson Media, LLC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On an unseasonably warm day in August of 1973, while a crowd of around 13,000 fans watched the North Adelaide football team play the Norwood Red Legs at the Adelaide Oval, 11-year-old Joanne Ratcliffe assisted 4-year-old Kirste Gordon to the bathroom. The girls never returned to their seats.Although there were many witnesses, the girls have never been found. Their disappearance is one of South Australia's best-known crimes. Join Jen & Cam ass the discuss the case and possible suspects in "Abduction at the Adelaide Oval: Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon" *** Correction!! Jen got one of the suspects' names backward. It should be Arthur Stanley Hart, not Stanley Arthur Hart A reward of up to $1,000,000 AUD remains on offer to anyone who either provides information leading to the recovery of their remains or information leading to a conviction in the case.Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or at www.crimestopperssa.com.auPromo from our friend Paige from Reverie True Crime Podcast. Make sure to subscribe!Thanks to the OTCP teamListener Discretion by Edward @OctoberpodVHS. You can find him on all your podcast apps or at https://www.youtube.com/c/octoberpodhomevideoProducer and theme music by Nico Vettesewetalkofdreams.comResearched and written by Lauretta AllenSources:https://www.doenetwork.org/cases-int/575dfsau.htmlhttps://crimestopperssa.com.au/case/joanne-ratcliffe/https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/q9sp8f/the_disappearance_of_joanne_ratcliffe_and_kirste/https://www.newspapers.com/image/122624709/?terms=Kirste%20Gordon%20Joanne%20Ratcliffe&match=1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf3_U0MLs9Ahttps://www.newspapers.com/image/122311582/?terms=Kirste%20Gordon&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/125772014/?terms=Kirste%20Gordon&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/122671976/?terms=Kirste%20Gordon%20Joanne%20Ratcliffe&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/121956331/?terms=Kirste%20Gordon%20Joanne%20Ratcliffe&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/123019736/?terms=Kirste%20Gordon%20Joanne%20Ratcliffe&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/120770130https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Adelaide_Football_Clubhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_Oval Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jen and Cam are two funny ladies who like to talk about murder, mass murder, murder, suicide,

0:05.8

serial killer, spree, killers, thrill, killers, contract killings, honor killings, and a whole

0:10.0

lot of other sh-t, too heinous for me to list here.

0:13.6

If you're disturbed by this sort of content, you may want to listen to something else.

0:18.0

And if you're a child, trying to listen to our true crime podcast, well, you better

0:22.8

ask your mama.

0:30.0

Hey Jen, hey Cam, how are you?

0:44.3

I'm pretty good.

0:45.3

How are you?

0:46.3

I'm doing great.

0:47.3

I mentioned this off of the mic earlier, but happy podcast anniversary four years.

0:52.7

Four years.

0:53.7

Four years.

0:54.7

Isn't that amazing?

0:56.1

To episode two.

0:57.1

Nope.

0:58.1

We were just saying how the very first reviewer who said that only our family would listen

1:03.2

can suck it because our family does not listen.

1:05.8

Hey, never.

1:06.8

They never do.

1:07.8

But everybody that's tuning in right now, thank you very much for sticking with us through

1:10.9

these four years, wouldn't be here without you.

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