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True Crime Island

Episode 180 - The Killing of Barbara Dawson

True Crime Island

Cambo

True Crime

4.6971 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week we have another lesser-known case from Victoria Australia. One where there is no true justice but a killer is revealed.

Transcript

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When you when.

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When.

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When.

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Your.

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When. Hi I'm your host, Cambo.

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Grab a beer and pull up a deck chair.

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This is True Crime Island.

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Another True Crime Podcast, bringing you True Crime from around the world. I want as well this week we have another lesser known case from Victoria Australia

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one where there is no true justice, but a likely

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killer is revealed. Now references tonight are from the age and I've got most of

0:52.2

this from a coroner's report. Okay so we go back 40 years to

0:57.4

Tottenham in Victoria Australia for this case now Tottenham is about 10 kilometers west of Melbourne CBD.

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Okay, so it's the 1st of November 1980.

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It's about midday.

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Ruth Gillespie and Beth Young, they're driving along a dirt track road known as the Racecourse

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Road, Williamson. Now as they cross over the Coraroy Creek Ford, they noticed what appeared to be a storm mannequin lying in some grass

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on top of some rocks and which were in the water of the creek.

1:31.3

Now Miss Gillespie stopped the car and had a closer look before

1:34.6

realizing it was a woman's body, clearly dead. They immediately drove to the

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Altoona North Police Station where they reported what they'd seen.

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Now if you look on Google Maps the road crosses Corroite Creek, but it's not a bridge, it's

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a fort which is more like a very low concrete drive that still lets water flow

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