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The Teacher's Pet

From The Front: Roger Rogerson’s first kill? The mystery of ‘Shotgun Johnny’ Regan

The Teacher's Pet

The Australian

News, Society & Culture

4.610.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The 1974 murder of ‘Shotgun Johnny’ Regan has never been solved. Now, his family wants answers. That’s where The Australian’s new cold case investigation The Gangster’s Ghost comes in. 

Subscribers can listen to Episodes 1 and 2 now at gangstersghost.com.au.

This episode of The Australian's daily news podcast The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our team includes Lia Tsamoglou, Joshua Burton, Stephanie Coombes and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music. 

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0:00.0

From the Australian, here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey. It's Friday, May 9, 2025.

0:12.0

The drama just keeps on coming from Canberra. National Senator Jacinta Numpy in Per Price has

0:17.8

defected to the Liberal Party and wants to be deputy leader behind

0:21.9

would-be opposition leader Angus Taylor as the recriminations and blame-shifting for the

0:27.3

coalition's loss continue.

0:32.2

Anthony Albanese is making a brutal cabinet reshuffle. Two ministers, Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husek, are top of the hit list.

0:41.2

And the Greens are looking for a new leader,

0:43.4

after a tearful Adam Bant,

0:45.3

blamed Liberal and Labour for losing his seat of Melbourne

0:48.2

and denied he'd been too vitriolic about Israel.

0:58.4

Thank you. too vitriolic about Israel. Terrifying gangster, shotgun Johnny Regan was assassinated in a Sydney back street

1:03.6

more than half a century ago.

1:06.0

There have always been rumours it was the first kill by corrupt detective and murderer Roger Rogerson.

1:12.5

But the murder has never been solved.

1:15.3

Today, we go inside the Australian's new cold case investigation, the gangster's ghost,

1:20.5

and a family search for answers.

1:27.2

Nobody over a garret coppers, will they?

1:29.4

I will.

1:31.3

This is the real voice of one of Australia's most terrifying gangsters, Stuart John Regan.

1:38.3

I'll give him plenty of ammunition.

1:39.7

I've got that much, that many coppers, you're not funny.

1:42.7

Regan, known as Shotgun Johnny, was murdered in a Sydney laneway in 1974.

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