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Australian True Crime

Could You Just Accept It? - #176

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6979 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content and reference to suicide. Listener discretion is advised.


Lyn Cecil believes her son Adam was murdered. At what point would you “just accept” he’d died of suicide and stop fighting? 


Show notes for Episode 176:

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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.

0:26.0

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded.

0:31.0

We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, and to Aboriginal

0:35.2

elders emerging.

0:38.5

The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children.

0:46.7

I isolated myself through choice because I learned that people are very judgmental.

0:52.8

And as soon as I'd say something about Adam's case

0:56.2

and with, you know, committing suicide

0:59.0

and the coroner's handing down these findings,

1:02.0

I've had people right down to my cousin say, Lynn, just accepted,

1:06.5

he committed suicide. So you learn not to talk about it, to protect yourself from other people. That's Lynn Cecil, who won't accept that her son Adam committed suicide.

1:30.9

She believes he was murdered and she's fought for 15 years through two

1:34.9

inquests spending hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to prove it. In this

1:40.4

podcast Lynn will explain all the reasons why she believes her son was murdered.

1:45.6

And it's up to us not necessarily to decide whether or not we believe her,

1:50.7

but at what point we'd be ready to get over it. If, God forbid, we were ever in her position.

1:57.0

This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Lorry and Emily Webb.

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