Inside the High Country Murders Investigation
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The disappearance of Russell Hill and Carol Clay in Victoria’s high country ultimately saw Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn charged with their murders.
In "In the Dead of Night", author and screenwriter Greg Haddrick traces the investigation and trial, and joins us to reflect on one of Victoria’s most significant recent murder cases.
You can purchase your copy of In the Dead of Night here.
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Host: Meshel Laurie
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| 0:00.0 | they knew that he was finally really just cracking a little bit. So they got the choppers |
| 0:05.4 | because they got arrested now. They were actually scared that he'd kill himself. And they're |
| 0:09.4 | expecting to find the man that they'd heard in the car driving on the way out there, the one who |
| 0:14.8 | was really panicking, stressed, thinking he was about to be all over. Instead, he wanders out and |
| 0:19.9 | go, yeah, what's wrong, guys? Can I help? And as calm as you like. Funnily enough, that's when |
| 0:25.2 | they looked at him and thought, you are a psychopath. You have done this. |
| 0:34.8 | We've had two blockbuster murder trials in Victoria in the last 12 months. |
| 0:39.9 | Most recently we saw Erin Patterson convicted of the so-called Mushroom Lunch Murders, |
| 0:45.3 | but before that was the case of the High Country murders. |
| 0:49.5 | Elderly campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay disappeared during a weekend away in Victoria's High Country |
| 0:55.2 | in March 2020. Wild rumours circulated about eccentric locals, deer poachers and even packs of |
| 1:02.6 | wild dogs. But eventually police charged jet star pilot Greg Lynn with two counts of murder. |
| 1:10.1 | Screenwriter and author Greg Hadrick has written a book about the murders, the investigation |
| 1:14.7 | and the trial called In the Dead of Night, and he joins us on Australian True Crime to |
| 1:20.6 | talk about it. |
| 1:22.4 | This is Australian True Crime. |
| 1:24.5 | We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, |
| 1:29.1 | the Waurundri Woi Warang people of the Koolin Nation. |
| 1:32.6 | And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence. |
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