Man Shot Dead In Stand Off – My Father

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Travis Winks talks about the chain reaction of events that turned his normal, Queensland family into a tragic, sensational headline.

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Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Travis Winks.

Shattered, 67 days to a family’s Self-Destruction

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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.
0:07.5	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 Bizina 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.
0:49.0	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. This episode of Australian True Crime deals with violence and suicide.
1:07.0	If you need to speak to someone call Lifeline on 131114. When When you are confronted with the law in various shapes and forms my father for him to be confronted by a team of police on my
1:26.2	parents property, I think that scared the the daylights out of him. Travis Winks is a journalist and radio broadcaster. He's worked all over Australia and
1:45.3	spent a couple of years working in the US at the E-SPN Sports Center, where he
1:50.0	covered the world's biggest events like the S.B Awards and the Beijing Olympics.
1:56.6	For a guy from Ipswich in Queensland it was a dream come true.
2:00.7	But there was no magic formula.
2:03.0	Travis worked hard, did right by people,
2:06.2	and life had a way of staying more or less on track.
2:09.8	That was his expectation because that's the way he was raised. But in 2016 Travis and the
2:16.0	entire Wings family lived through a series of events that changed his outlook
2:20.1	forever. This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Lorry and Emily Webb.
2:26.0	Come with us as we go beyond the news cycle to find out how people become killers,
2:30.0	how people become victims and what happens next.
2:35.0	Travis Winks wrote a book about the events that changed the course of the lives of everyone he loved in 2016.
2:41.0	It's called Shattered, 67 days to a family's self-destruction, and he joined
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