Hey y'all, Sup. Welcome back. I'm um, should tell you guys that I haven't been at this house very long today and I'm already an annoying Torella. So very much. Yeah, I'm ready for her to get the fuck out of here. But, uh, I'm sorry.

That's hurtful. Well, I didn't make you be the way that you are. I guess that's true. But we have a lot of recording to do. So I'll just swallow it and just deal.

Deal. Garin and Barrett. No, you sure will because Lord knows I'm not going to get any less annoying. No, that's true. You're right. I need to just deal with it. Let's get let's go ahead and get a get on it. Shall we? So today, uh, we are covering the backpacker murders. I've been malat.

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In the 80s and 90s Sydney, Australia was the hot spot for young travelers to backpack around the beautiful landscape and hitchhiking was very commonplace then. Backpackers from all over the world would go to meet up with other backpackers and hostels or hostels.

I know that's what they said in the. Yeah. Because they sound much better than we do that were popular in the area. During the same time frame, there had been a string of disappearances of young tourist who had come to the area in hopes of creating lasting memories.

With other adventurous friends who also had the travel bug in this case will examine what are referred to as the backpacker murders vicious killings at the hands of a violent psychopath taking advantage of young travelers who believed they were accepting a ride from a good Samaritan in a safe area.

At the end of 1991, Joanne Walters and Caroline Clark, both 22 year old British women met at Kings Cross backpackers, hostile and instantly became friends. They shared a flat together backpacked around the area together and took jobs picking fruit to sustain themselves during their travels in April of 1992.

They left Sydney with plans to travel further south before leaving one of the girls traded her tent for another tent that I guess it was a guy that they'd met maybe at the hostile. They traded tents. So the tent that the guy gave them had a hole in it. He had accidentally with a knife, like a fruit picking knife. Yes.

They were all there on like I think they were doing one of those like work abroad situations we looked into that. Yeah, long time ago. So it's like yeah you could go.

Summer else and like pick fruit or whatever and we're so adventurous that we never did it.

Well, who has money for the head? Like you apparently don't have to have any well you got to get yourself there I guess. Yeah exactly and I was like oh I have to buy a plane ticket. I'm out.

I don't what's a savings. Yeah. What do you want me to walk into a bank and say excuse me do I have an account here. So they he had as you know fruit knife or whatever and I guess he accidentally punched a hole in the tent but he covered it with an address label.

So they go on they tried tents or whatever and then Joanne and Caroline leave and after that nobody ever heard from them again.

There was no activity on their bank accounts and their families reported them missing and got the media involved in hopes that it would help locate them.

With the help of the media attention for Joanne and Caroline people started linking together the stories of several backpackers that had gone missing in recent years.

It was becoming an all too familiar story in the headlines. So that being said let's go back to 1989 sweet let's do it. Yeah.

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