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True Crime Island

Episode 68 - The Opera House Lottery Murder

True Crime Island

Cambo

True Crime

4.6971 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1960, Sydney Australia. The winners of No. 10 Opera House Lottery went from jubilation to heartbreak when their son is kidnapped and held for ransom. However, little Graeme Thorne would never come home.

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When you're, when.

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It's, when.

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When, you're, one.

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When, you, When. It's 1960s Sydney Australia. The winners of Number 10 Opera House lottery went from

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jubilation to heartbreak when their son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

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However, little Graham Thorne would never come home. When you're, when.

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When.

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Hi, I'm your host, Cambo, grab a beer and pull up a deck chair.

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This is True Crime Island, another True Crime Podcast. When you're, when.

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when.

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When.

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When.

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When. When you're, when. Hi Islanders tonight we go way back in time to what is arguably a more innocent

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time we go back nearly 60 years to 1960 Sydney Australia I will be reading tonight from the Australia 1960s Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

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I will be reading tonight from the Australian Police Journal, Sydney Morning Herald, and

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some detail from the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and that part is by Stephen Garten.

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At the end of the show I will give you the name of a book by one of our very own Ozzy podcasters

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and authors that you may follow Amanda Howard from

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Monsters Who Murder Podcast. Now some of you are triggered by child cases but

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although this does involve a child there is no real

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detailed gore at all so I think you should be fine it is a sad case though now I'm sure everyone knows what the Sydney Opera House looks

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like. Looks like nuns in a scrum, boats all stacked up, or whatever, but back in the late 1940s and 50s

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