A Convenient Murder Suicide: Who Killed Vicki Arnold and Julie-Anne Leahy? - #104

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

BFFs to the end, Vicki and Julie-Anne died together on a lonely track in Far North QLD in 1991. The police quickly ruled it a murder suicide but the families, the community, the Australian public and relentless local journalist Robert Reid refused to give up on the many inconsistencies in the case, and the brutal death scene. Reid joins us to guide us through the many twists and turns of Vicki and Julie-Anne's case.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.4	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
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0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.
0:26.0	We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded.
0:30.0	We pay our respects to their elders, past and present and to Aboriginal elders emerging.
0:37.0	Hi friends, thanks to all of you who've been joining us on Saturday nights for our live chats on YouTube.
0:43.7	We're really enjoying them a lot and all you have to do is get on to our YouTube page at
0:48.1	8 p.m. on Saturday night.
0:49.8	It's Australian True Crime Podcast on YouTube and you can just type questions and comments and we can chat back. It's very cool. There's lots of great episode suggestions coming in through those chats too which we love. I didn't end up joining on Saturday night because I was
1:04.2	sitting at my makeup desk, my makeup mirror getting ready and I heard a huge
1:09.0	explosion and I ran out my backyard my back door and I found that my mother had almost blown her hand off in a freak soda stream accident.
1:18.0	True story.
1:20.0	I had one eye done with makeup. It was perfect. But I had to call Triple Zero and wipe the makeup off before the ambulance got here.
1:29.5	And then we spent the night at Sunshine Hospital, watching another lady vomit on the floor in the
1:35.3	emergency waiting area for five hours.
1:39.8	But for one of those hours I got to watch Emily do the YouTube live chat and it was really cool.
1:46.2	It actually took my mind off worrying that I was inhaling airborne pathogens from the
1:51.2	vomit that was exploding from the other lady so I can vouch for how
1:55.0	good it is and it's completely free it's just a testament to how badly Emily and I
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