Legendary Homicide Detective Rowland Legg
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Rowland Legg was the lead homicide investigator on some of Australia's most notorious crimes including the murders of Jason Moran and his bodyguard Pasquale Barbaro at a suburban children's football game at the height of the Melbourne gang war in 2003, and the shocking murder of Mercina Helvagis as she tended her grandmother's grave at Fawkner Cemetery by serial killer Peter Dupas in 1997. He joins us as a guest on this week's podcast and he will join us live on stage at the Yarraville Club on April 8. Thanks to the easing of restrictions we've been able to release extra tickets to that event. You can book them here.
Next Week: Legendary Part 2 with retired homicide detective Rowland Legg discussing investigating the murders of the Bega School Girls and Jayden Leskie.
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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram here.
Co-Host: Emily Webb. You can find her on Instagram here and listen to her podcast Killer Content here.
Guest: Rowland Legg
Producer/Editor: Lachie Flannigan
Executive Producer: Jacqueline Tonks
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| 0:00.0 | We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July, |
| 0:04.3 | and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already. |
| 0:07.4 | Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show. |
| 0:10.3 | Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests, |
| 0:15.2 | our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in |
| 0:19.9 | Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:40.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 0:49.0 | The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children. |
| 0:55.0 | One of Kenny's claims to find is the fact that he would do aggravated burglaries on drug dealers |
| 1:02.0 | houses and steal their drugs and their money. |
| 1:04.5 | So he said, when I do my run-thrues, I get nervous beforehand so I have to back one out. |
| 1:10.7 | So they said, okay, we'll leave that there. Thanks very much. Although we do have a |
| 1:14.7 | photo of him holding it up smiling. |
| 1:22.2 | Hello Australian true Crime listeners. |
| 1:25.0 | That is the voice of legendary homicide detective Roland Legg. |
| 1:30.0 | As I know you know, our podcast is based in Melbourne, which became the world's most lockdown |
| 1:37.1 | city at some stage last year. I can't remember exactly when, because I was trying not to keep track of such depressing developments by then. |
| 1:46.6 | But in and around all of our lockdowns and restrictions, we had one little live show that kept being postponed. |
| 1:54.1 | Roland Legg was standing by to be our special guest for that show. |
| 1:58.7 | Well, it's finally happening at the Yarraville Club on April 8. |
| 2:04.0 | That's just a couple of weeks away and thanks to the end of restrictions we've even been allowed to release more tickets. |
| 2:10.0 | So there's a link in the show notes to this episode and also on our Facebook page or you can just Google Australian True Crime Yareville Club that'll work as well and we would love to see you there. |
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