205: Silence of the Lams: Graham Potter

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Graham Potter became known as the "head and fingers" killer after the brutal murder of Kim Barry. He served his time for that, but while in prison fell in with a rough crowd. He took his newfound relationships to the outside, where he got into even more trouble. After falling onto the mob's hit list, plus being wanted for his new offenses he had no choice but to run.

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Kai Engel

"Daemones"

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Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Sources:

Australia's most wanted 'head and fingers' killer is still at large | That's Life! Magazine (thatslife.com.au)

The Murder of Kim Barry Part 1 – Guest Blogger Elise | Forgotten Illawarra (wordpress.com)

16 Jan 1993, 35 - The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com

30 Apr 1981, Page 2 - The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com

Police release clues that may lead to 'head and fingers killer' Graham Potter | 7NEWS

Graham Potter is Australia's most wanted crook - or is he? (theage.com.au)

Graham Potter: One of Australia's most wanted men arrested after 12-year hunt - BBC News

Fugitive Graham Potter arrested after hiding in Far North Queensland for 12 years, police say - ABC News

Ex-fugitive Graham Potter remanded in custody after being extradited from Queensland (theage.com.au)

How Graham Potter, Australia's most wanted man, was spotted at a bottle shop | Daily Mail Online

Fugitive Graham Potter 'using hair colour, wigs, fat suits' to hide during nine-year pursuit, police say - ABC News

How a convicted killer Graham Gene Potter evaded authorities for 12 years | 7NEWS

06 Apr 1982, Page 10 - The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com

16 Jan 1993, 5 - The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com

24 Jul 1981, Page 3 - The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's just a lot of,
0:03.0	Hey, everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.6	And this is Lindsay.
0:27.0	And welcome to Corpus DeLecti.
0:28.9	We missed another week.
0:30.4	Sorry.
0:31.9	Totally.
0:32.9	My bad and COVID's bad.
0:35.1	It hit me and I was out for like four days. And, you know, unfortunately,
0:40.7	she lost her voice as part of hers. I didn't. So I was able to kind of push through, but she was not,
0:46.1	of course, it would take a podcaster's voice, not like we need that. But yeah, so here we are
0:51.8	again. But we do have another story in our Silence of the Lamb series, which we are still chugging along with.
0:59.9	So let's just jump right in.
1:02.1	So we're going to go to February 8th of 1981 and a dead body was found.
1:08.0	Now, when she said jumping in, we are there because the body did not have a head,
1:13.6	nor did it have any fingers. It had been dumped on the side of a mountain in Jamboreau and was found
1:20.2	by a plumber who was looking for dumped cars parts to fix his own car. And just FYI, Jbaru is in Australia, so we are in another country.
1:31.6	The torso was found face down. It was in a crouching position. The wrists were tied to the ankles.
1:39.4	There was no evidence of sexual assault, but obviously this guy's just looking for car parts.
1:44.9	This is quite a shocking find. He calls police. Police come out there and start an investigation because they have
1:50.7	no idea who this is. They do know that it's a woman, but that's all they really know. So police
1:56.4	had found some clothing and belongings nearby, and they released pictures of that in hopes of
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