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🗓️ 9 March 2025
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This is part two of our three part series on infamous prison escapee, John Killick.
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Guest Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on instagram.
Guest: John Killick
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0:00.0 | I was still going straight, but what happened, I met a guy the racists, and we just got |
0:05.7 | talking, we both lost. He put it on me about robbing the bank. He'd never robbed the bank. |
0:11.0 | And I thought, no, but I thought about it later, and I thought that would solve everything. |
0:25.8 | Welcome to part two of our three-part special series with John Killick, |
0:30.8 | author, public speaker and notorious bank robber and prison escapé. |
0:34.5 | By the end of our first installment in this incredible story, |
0:38.2 | John was midway through another attempted escape from custody. |
0:44.5 | The building was surrounded by 18 carloads of SWAT teams and a six-hour siege was underway. |
0:49.5 | In this episode, we'll learn more about the vulnerabilities that led to many of John's biggest mistakes. But first, let's pick up where we left off and find out how that siege worked out for him. |
0:57.4 | This is Australian true crime. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this |
1:02.1 | podcast is created, the Wurundri Woi Wurang people of the Koolan Nation. And a warning, this |
1:08.6 | episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence. |
1:17.1 | Hi, I'm David McWilliams of the David McQuilliams podcast, and this is a cast to recommend. |
1:24.6 | If you love true crime or going down rabbit holes, then I think you're going to love |
1:28.0 | my podcast Red Room. I am the host Jenny and you can join me on my deep dives every single week. |
1:33.1 | This season, we're exploring unsolved murders and mysteries, specifically the unsolved cases from |
1:38.6 | Ireland. How does someone vanish into thin air? And how come? Sometimes all the signs are pointing |
1:44.1 | to one person can a case |
1:45.7 | go cold almost overnight? They are the questions that I will be asking this season on Red Room. |
1:51.4 | You can tune in on Acast or wherever you get your podcast. |
1:54.4 | Acast is the home of podcasting, including such shows as my own one, the David McWilliams podcast, |
1:59.5 | where my friend John and I |
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