Barrenjoey Road - Update - #193
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Neil Mercer and Ruby Jones are still investigating the crimes of Neville Tween, who stalked Sydney’s Northern Beaches without apparent impunity in the 70s and 80s. He trained up dozens of other sex offenders and released them into the community too. How did he get away with so much for so long? The unsolved disappearance of Trudy Adams was just the beginning. The book, Barrenjoey Road is out now, through ABC books.
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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. |
| 0:07.5 | 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 Bizina 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. The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:46.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:04.0 | The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children. Thank you. |
| 1:07.0 | Are you aware why we're here? |
| 1:10.0 | Yes. |
| 1:12.0 | You understand that this is Yes. |
| 1:13.0 | You understand that this is an inquest into the disappearance of an |
| 1:17.0 | 18 year old girl or young woman |
| 1:21.0 | in June of 1978. |
| 1:24.0 | Yes. |
| 1:25.0 | Without being unduly rude about it, you have a career of committing criminal offenses from about the age of nine years until the importation which of course you deny. |
| 1:41.0 | Also I deny it. Yeah, well putting that aside, do you agree that you've led a life of crime? |
| 1:48.8 | No. |
| 1:49.8 | Seriously? |
| 1:54.0 | Serious? |
| 1:55.0 | Serious? |
| 1:57.0 | You don't think you've let a life of crime? |
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