A "real life monster" from Australia's Great Depression

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

During the Great Depression, 32% of working age men were put out of work, with many of them resorting to drunken and violent lifestyles.

During this time, there was a significant spike in Australia's murder rate, with many so called "monsters" being birthed from the era.

Michael Adams from the "Forgotten Australia" podcast, joins us to tell us the story of one of those "monsters", William Moxley.

Michael Adams' new book "The Murder Squad", which covers this case and many others from Australia's great depression, is available on the 25th of July. You can access and read a free extract here.

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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.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
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.
0:25.8	This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.
0:29.1	So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will
0:33.8	contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian
0:38.3	true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
0:41.9	listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.
0:47.0	The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.
0:59.4	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
1:07.0	It was the 5th of April, 1932 in the evening and a very handsome young couple were going out for a drive.
1:15.5	This was Dorothy Denzel, she was 21, her bloke was Frank Wilkinson, he was 26.
1:21.3	They were a nice young couple, they were doing pretty well despite, you know, tough times and they
1:26.7	went out for a drive and they didn't come back. Michael Adams from the fantastic forgotten Australia podcast is back with
1:40.0	us on Australian True Crime this week with one of his brilliant historical cases.
1:45.0	Michael has a new book that's fresh off the presses, it's called The Murder Squad,
1:49.5	how Australia's toughest cops hunted the monsters of the Great Depression and he joins us to talk
1:54.9	about one of those so-called monsters.
1:58.7	As always though, we begin by setting the scene that was the backdrop of the crimes of this man, which is to say,
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