203: Silence of the Lams: Elmer Crawford

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Sightseers come across a car that seems to have gone over a cliff into the waters below. Inside is a woman and three children. At first, it seems like a cut and dry murder-suicide, but on closer review the evidence told an even worse story.

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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
Killer Crawford still haunts ex-cop | The Standard | Warrnambool, VIC
US corpse may be key to Vic mass murder (smh.com.au)
'The most wanted man in Australia' - Irish emigrant still hunted by police almost 50 years after brutal murders - Independent.ie
Where is Elmer Crawford? (theage.com.au)
Elmer Crawford | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8fv_CAjOoQ
Killer Elmer Crawford believed to be living in WA outback | Daily Mail Online

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.2	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.7	And welcome back to Corpus Delicti, the podcast.
0:29.5	We are really into our silence of the lambs, which are coming up with some of the most interesting off-the-wall stories.
0:38.6	Yeah, it's interesting how some people manage to stay under the radar without doing a whole lot.
0:45.9	But tonight's is a little bit different because we technically speaking don't really know how this person got away with it or if something else happened.
0:56.8	So we will dive headfirst into this story.
1:00.3	Quick reminder.
1:01.6	The next week we're taking a break because Lindsay is going on a much needed, deserved.
1:07.3	And if she wasn't going, I was going to kick her out there anyways.
1:10.7	Vacation. Yes. So just one
1:13.2	brief week, not planning to be a big extended absence like we've had in the past. So yeah,
1:19.2	we will not have an episode next week. But without further ado, let's jump into this week's
1:23.9	Silence of the Lambs. Now this one's going to leave you with a lot more questions
1:28.4	than we can even come close to answering. It is surrounded by mystery and a very flimsy ghost story.
1:36.1	Elmer Kyle Crawford. For our New Zealand and Australia fans, you're going to know this story
1:41.3	inside now. Crawford is an Irish man. He was living at the time in Melbourne, Australia.
1:47.3	Not really a lot is known about who he was or the life he had before coming to Australia.
1:54.0	But what we do know is that he was born in Canada.
1:57.8	And he lived with his grandparents in Ireland in 1930. Now, he finally immigrated to Australia
2:04.6	sometime around 1951, and this is going to put him about 22 years old. When he was in Australia,
2:13.6	he worked as a mechanic, and he was really, really good with these electrical-type jobs.
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