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Australian True Crime

An Old School Outlaw - Part Three

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6979 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This is the conclusion of our three-part edition featuring notorious bank robber and escape artist, John Killick.


Today, we discuss John's last great escape—the 1999 prison break from Silverwater, where he was spirited away from the exercise yard in a helicopter hijacked by his girlfriend, Lucy.


Click here to view and purchase John Killick's books.


John is also a regular contributor to the Maccas Old School Podcast, which you can check out here.


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CREDITS:

Guest Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on instagram.

Guest: John Killick

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

This episode contains extra content from Channel 7.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's a plot straight from a Hollywood movie, a hijacked helicopter landing inside a jail to pluck a dashing and dangerous criminal to freedom.

0:09.0

In 1999, Lucy Dudko, the Russian lover of bank robber John Killick, committed the only crime of her life and all in the name of love.

0:28.8

This is the conclusion of a three-part edition of Australian True Crime,

0:32.6

featuring notorious bank robber and escape artist John Killick.

0:37.1

I wouldn't say listening to the previous episodes before this one is essential, but you're mad if you don't.

0:39.2

Although we're about to delve into John's most daring escapade, his life leading up to this point was

0:44.4

colourful, to say the least. Today we discussed John's last great escape. It's the 1999 prison

0:51.2

break from Silverwater, in which John was spirited away from the exercise yard

0:55.8

in a helicopter that had been hijacked by his girlfriend, Lucy.

1:00.6

This is Australian True Crime.

1:02.9

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created,

1:07.2

the Warranguri Woi Warang people of the Kulin Nation.

1:10.7

And a warning, this episode of the Kulin Nation. And a warning.

1:12.0

This episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence.

1:20.5

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1:24.0

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1:30.6

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1:33.1

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1:34.3

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1:36.5

Bless you.

1:37.4

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1:43.8

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