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Barrenjoey Road 04 | The Green Kombi Van

Unravel

ABC Australia

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Despite the similarities between the disappearance of Trudie Adams and the assaults on fourteen women on Sydney’s northern beaches, the case goes cold for almost two decades.

That is until 1992, when fresh eyes re-examine an old lead and police think they might be close to cracking the case.

Is it the breakthrough they think it is? Ruby Jones sits down with a former detective who knows Trudie’s case better than anyone else

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an ABC podcast.

0:05.0

The disappearance of Trudy Adams is one of the state's most baffling murder mysteries,

0:09.6

but now after 17 years police believe it will soon be solved.

0:14.0

Very reliable information, now I'd say our best breakthrough at this stage to solve the disappearance

0:19.2

of treaty.

0:20.2

Almost two decades after the original investigation in Jutrudi's death failed to find any answers,

0:29.6

police went public with a new breakthrough that pushed the case back into the headlines.

0:34.6

Detectives are re-questioning witnesses and hope others will now come forward.

0:39.9

It was the 90s, 17 years after Trudy was last seen, and a fresh lead had emerged, something

0:47.2

that had been overlooked.

0:49.6

The information is very

0:55.0

that's a result of previous information it does corroborate that. Police had an explosive theory

0:58.0

that centered around a green Kombi van.

1:01.0

This breakthrough is certainly to haunt those responsible for Trudy Adams' murder.

1:06.0

After so long it appears their dark secret will once and for all be reviewed. This is unravel season two.

1:14.0

This is unravelravell season 2, Baron Joey Road.

1:27.0

In this episode, a green Kombi leads police to a network of men on the other side of Sydney.

1:33.0

And a new source gets in touch with me.

1:36.0

Someone who knows this case better than anyone else,

1:40.0

but who's never been interviewed about it before.

1:42.0

Someone who's never been interviewed about it before,

1:43.0

someone who's spent years trying to track down Trudy's killer.

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