Episode 72 – The Bega Schoolgirl Murders

True Crime Island

Cambo

True Crime

4.6 • 971 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It’s the 9PM 5th of October 1997. Two teenage friends, Lauren Barry and Nichole Collins, leave their friends and campsite to attend a party about an hour’s walk away. They didn’t make it.

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0:00.0	It's 9 PM 5th of October 1997.
0:17.0	Two teenage friends Lauren Barry and Nicole Collins leave their friends and campsite to attend a party about an hour's walk
0:25.4	away. They didn't make it. This is the case of the biggest schoolgirl murders.
0:40.0	Hi, I'm your host, Grab a beer and pull up a deck chair. This is True Crime Island, another
0:46.4	true crime podcast. When you're, when.
0:55.0	when.
0:57.0	When.
0:58.0	When.
1:00.0	When. When you're, when. Hi Islanders well this week I was going to bring you the gyrildary letter from
1:24.8	Ned Kelly but I do need to work on that a little bit more so I'll do it sometime as a
1:31.3	bonus episode tonight though I will bring you a horrific story of
1:36.0	the abduction rape and murder of two biggest schoolgirls that happened over 20
1:41.3	years ago.
1:46.8	Although I won't go into every exact detail of what happened, I think I better give a trigger warning for this episode.
1:51.1	It was just so shocking to read what happened when I was doing the research.
1:56.0	Now I'll be reading parts from two court cases and the Sydney Morning Herald tonight.
2:05.0	Okay, so it's Friday the 3rd of October 1997.
2:09.0	This weekend is the Labor Day long weekend with the Monday being a public holiday.
2:16.0	14 year old Lauren Barry and 16 year old Nicole Collins, both from Kullaru and students at Beger High School, decide to spend the weekend
2:27.2	camping with other teenagers at White Rock near the town of Beager.
2:31.6	Now Beager is about midway between Sydney and
2:35.2	Melbourne and it's just off the coast. Graham Collins, a veterinary surgeon and
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