How Drones Are Bringing Australia’s Missing Home
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Wood has been committed to helping Australian families find their missing loved ones through his work with Working Drones Australia.
In this episode of Australian True Crime, guest host and criminologist Dr. Xanthé Mallett explores how Daniel utilises cutting-edge drone and software technologies to aid humanitarian efforts.
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Guest Host: Dr. Xanthé Mallett
Guest: Daniel Wood
Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard
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| 0:00.0 | A drone operator has revealed how he may have helped a South West family solve a heartbreaking mystery. |
| 0:07.2 | He volunteered to survey a crucial search area for missing man Corey O'Connell, |
| 0:12.2 | which led police to what could be the 26-year-olds remains. |
| 0:16.0 | Hopefully we'll be able to move on in our grieving process because it's just been it's been limbo the whole two years |
| 0:22.6 | they've given us peace it's a pretty nice thing for them to do we're joined again in this episode |
| 0:35.2 | of Australian true crime by guest host, criminologist and |
| 0:38.5 | forensic anthropologist Dr. Zanthi Mallett. |
| 0:42.0 | Today I'm joined by Daniel Wood, who owns and runs Working Drones Australia. |
| 0:47.7 | I came across his work as part of an SPS documentary and a case of a missing person that |
| 0:52.4 | he helped solve. Working Drones Australia is a leading |
| 0:55.4 | provider of advanced drone services. Obviously, we're talking about it in terms of policing and |
| 1:00.4 | investigations and what kind of services drones can actually provide, because I imagine it's a lot |
| 1:06.9 | more varied than most of us would realise. This is Australian true crime. |
| 1:12.6 | We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, |
| 1:17.0 | the Waurundri Woi Wurang people of the Koolan Nation. |
| 1:26.8 | In the 90s, my friend and fellow journalist Don Phillips was at the centre of the UK's dance music explosion. |
| 1:35.2 | By 2022, he had mysteriously disappeared in one of the remotest parts of the Amazon jungle, with his friend Bruno Pereira. |
| 1:48.1 | In 2025, so many questions remain. |
| 1:54.2 | I'm Tom Phillips, the Guardian's Latin America correspondent. Listen to Missing in the Amazon wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, this is Crouch here from That Peter Crouch podcast. We're |
| 1:59.5 | currently sponsored by WhatsApp. |
| 2:01.2 | Now, Crouchie, we love a bit of juicy gossip on this podcast and we know the listeners do too. |
| 2:05.9 | Do you remember how excited everyone got when parched become a thing? |
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