177: The Central Coast Massacre - October 27 2019

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com Your teen years are supposed to be some of your best. You are young enough where responsibilities are at a minimum, but old enough where you can be given some freedom. In October of 1997 two teenage girls who were on a camping trip together, were abducted and murdered in what would be called the Bega Schoolgirl Murders. And, on October 28th 1997 one of the two men who took their innocence and freedom was finally arrested after committing one of the worst crimes in Australian history. Leslie Camilleri Arrested (1997) Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When we survived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:05.4	A weird is described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.
0:09.5	A cop of murder.
0:11.4	Breakups are hard and can leave a person angry and feeling broken.
0:15.9	On October 27, 1992, a man took revenge for a woman breaking up with him, revenge that would later
0:23.8	be dubbed the Central Coast Massacre after it left seven dead, including an unborn child.
0:31.8	So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning
0:37.3	cup of murder.
0:38.3	In 1992, Carrie Gannon, 23, ended a several-year-long relationship with a man named Malcolm George Baker.
0:49.3	The 45-year-old didn't take the break up well,, and six weeks later, on October 27, 1992,
0:57.6	he set out to enact his revenge on the woman he claimed to still love.
1:02.6	Carrie and her 18-year-old pregnant sister Lisa shared an apartment in Terrigal, Australia.
1:09.3	On that night in October, the two sisters were visited by
1:12.3	their father, Thomas Gannon, and a friend, Christopher Gall. At around 9.12 p.m., shots could be heard from
1:20.1	within the apartment. Malcolm used a shotgun to smash the front window. Christopher was the first to be
1:26.2	shot before he moved on to Carrie and Lisa, and finally their father.
1:30.3	When police arrived, they found Thomas dead in the streets, the sisters both dead within the apartment,
1:36.3	and Christopher Gall severely injured suffering from a gunshot wound to the face.
1:41.3	Lisa was eight months pregnant, and efforts were made to save the unborn child, but ultimately
1:47.4	failed.
1:49.0	Malcolm then drove to the resort in Beto Bay, where his 27-year-old son, David, lived with his
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