46 : Lauren Barry & Nichole Collins: Into The Dark, Part 02

Obscura: A True Crime Podcast

Justin Drown

True Crime, Personal Journals, History, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On the October long weekend of 1997, 14-year-old Lauren Barry and 16-year-old Nichole Collins were enjoying a camping trip with some friends at a popular bush spot just outside Tathra, on the far south south coast of NSW. At the campsite there was relatively constant adult supervision, with parents checking in at regular intervals to ensure everyone was safe and well. As the Sunday night wore on, Nichole became contemplative about her recent relationship breakup. She knew her ex was at a party at a house a few kilometres away, and wanted to walk over to talk to him about getting back together. But by this time it was dark, and not necessarily safe to go walking through the bush alone given the risk of misadventure. If Nichole fell and injured herself, there’d be no way of calling for help, and these were the days before every teenager had a mobile phone. Nichole and Lauren decided to walk to the party together, and at 9pm they set off. It wasn’t unusual for teens in the area to walk to where they wanted to get to. It was a relatively safe community, and after all, Lauren and Nichole were extremely familiar with their surroundings. Learning the necessary precautions and steps to take should they ever find themselves in trouble was an important part of growing up in the country. But sometimes, the perils of the outdoors don’t manifest themselves in the unpredictability of mother nature. Sometimes, it’s something much more sinister and infinitely more horrifying...

CW: child sexual assault, family violence, drug use

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0:00.0	Welcome listener, I'm glad you're here.
0:05.6	Take a seat next to the fire.
0:34.1	Hit on me.
1:04.1	Lindsay agreed to take police to the murder scene.
1:09.8	Warner Nicole had met a gruesom and almost a two hour drive from the campsite.
1:15.5	As Lindsay led detectives through a bush, the stench of death grew stronger.
1:20.0	It wasn't long until the group came to the creek itself.
1:24.2	As they moved upstream, they saw a large tree which had fallen across the waterway.
1:30.0	This route's exposed, laying in shallow water nearby where the remains of Lauren.
1:36.7	Detectives wouldn't need to look far to find Nicole.
1:39.6	Lindsay showed police where she lay next to a small tree.
1:44.3	Using a map, Lindsay showed police the routes the car had traveled.
1:49.1	The spots where the men threw their knives into the lake and where they'd burned some
1:53.2	of the evidence.
1:55.5	Officers now had to see if they could extract a similar confession from Leslie.
2:01.3	Detectives drove to Goldburn to see what Leslie had to say.
2:05.5	Unlike Lindsay, he was far more vague about his account.
2:10.3	He told police that some girls had indeed gotten to the car at some point.
2:15.2	But they couldn't recall much of what happened after that because he fell asleep.
2:21.4	This told Leslie that Lindsay had made a full confession and that the jig, in effect,
2:26.4	was up.
2:28.0	Stone Leslie refused a bunch, now claiming that Lindsay was in fact the lone killer.
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