Lucille Butterworth | A Missed Confession
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Lucille Butterworth went missing in Tasmania in 1969, and Australians were shocked to learn decades later that someone confessed to her murder just 7 years after her disappearance. Confirmation bias, tunnel vision, and poor police procedures so damaged this case that even a confession was not enough to close it.
This case is *unsolved*
If you know anything about the disappearance of Lucille Butterworth, you can contact the Tasmania Police at 131 444 or Crime Stoppers at 1 800 333 000.
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| 0:49.3 | Thank you. Lucille Butterworth went missing in Tasmania in 1969, and Australians were shocked to learn decades later that someone confessed to her murder just seven years after her disappearance. |
| 0:55.2 | Confirmation bias, tunnel vision, and poor police procedure so damaged this case that even a confession |
| 1:00.2 | was not enough to close it. I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines. |
| 1:16.8 | Hello and welcome to crime lines in our last 12 Days of Crime Lines episode. |
| 1:24.2 | If my voice sounds a little thin, I am just a little sick, but not bad enough to not record. I've definitely sounded worse over the years. This episode is the end of the 12 |
| 1:30.1 | days of crime lines, which started off with the goal to cover 12 missing persons cases in December, |
| 1:36.2 | but due to scheduling my poor time management skills, some episodes getting longer than I |
| 1:42.1 | anticipated, and some cases involving multiple missing people, |
| 1:47.4 | we will have actually covered 18 missing persons, but it took me two months. |
| 1:52.6 | We are closing this out with a case that is a little older than the others I've talked about, |
| 1:57.9 | and it definitely piqued my interest when I started reading about it. |
| 2:02.3 | The inquest in this case, which was not held until 2015, gave a very good retrospective on the |
| 2:08.8 | investigation as a whole. The Inquest Report, which was released in 2016, and the reporting |
| 2:14.9 | from the Australian Broadcasting Company were my main sources. |
| 2:18.9 | This case was suggested by a listener who has written about this case on Reddit, and you can |
| 2:24.6 | find her there under the handle maybe next time, so thank you for sending this over. |
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