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True Crime Island

Episode 49 - The Killing of Joe Cinque

True Crime Island

Cambo

True Crime

4.6971 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s the 26 October 1997, Canberra Australia. 25-year-old Anu Singh call 000 emergency to report her 26-year-old boyfriend Joe Cinque in need of assistance. By the time paramedics arrive, they can’t help Joe. Police would later arrest Singh and charge her with murder. This case will bring on the rage.

Transcript

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When you're, Australia. 25 year old Anu Singh calls triple

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oh emergency to report her 26 year old boyfriend Joe Chinkway in need of assistance.

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By the time the paramedics arrive, they can't help Joe. Police would later arrest Singh and charge her

0:37.1

with murder. This case will bring on the rage. Hi, I'm your host, Cambo, grab a beer and pull up a deck chair.

0:58.0

This is True Crime Island, another True crime podcast. Okay, strap yourself in for this one. This will bring on the rage. This case must be one of the most disgusting and disturbing that I've come across.

1:30.4

Not only is the main purpose, selfish, disgusting excuse for a human being,

1:36.0

but those around her are not much better.

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It's a case where mental health will determine the outcome. It's a case where the grieving family every

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day have to live with the fact they lost their son and brother while the perp now is out free to live her life.

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Now I must shout out to Helen Garner as a lot of the background to this story comes from her book

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The Consolation of Joe Chinkway. If you really want to find out more about this case,

2:07.0

I suggest you go on to Google and buy a copy. It's a great in-depth account of this terrible event. I'll stick a link on

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Facebook and Twitter so that you can find it easily. Also, as Helen has, I will be using court transcripts for the story.

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Okay so first off I'll give you a bit of a background into the victim, Joe Chinkway. So Joe Chinkway first son of Maria and

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Nino Chinkway and brother to Anthony. Born in 1972, he grew up in Newcastle north of Sydney. His mum said he would never

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stay still. I always tell him, calm down, he did very well at school and started to do

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architecture at uni but he didn't like being inside so he changed to engineering. In 1979 the family had a really bad car

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accident. Joe was thrown clear, Nino was knocked out, Anthony was trapped in the backseat, and Maria's leg and foot was terribly injured.

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She was in hospital for months recovering.

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Joe stepped up and took care of his base. She was in hospital for months recovering.

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Joe stepped up and took care of his baby brother while Maria was in hospital.

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He was cooking, cleaning and doing the ironing. Anthony, after being trapped in the wreckage, had a lot of issues after that and would always need to sleep with the light on.

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