My grandfather's vicious act created generational trauma
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Sarah's grandfather murdered her grandmother and hid her under the floorboards.
This event has long since fallen from the news, but she joins us to share the many ways it has affected and still affects her family.
Sarah is a professional woman. She's married with young children, and she takes great pride in the ordered nature of her life.
It's a far cry from the chaos left behind for her father's generation by her grandparents, whose marriage came to a violent end in the 1950s.
Sarah's peaceful existence has required a lot of effort on her part. The family continues to be impacted by the chaos, dysfunction, and trauma from the gruesome family headline of three-quarters of a century ago.
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CREDITS:
Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Guest: Sarah (not her real name).
Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard
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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. |
| 0:25.8 | This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. |
| 0:29.1 | So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will |
| 0:33.8 | contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian |
| 0:38.4 | true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander |
| 0:42.0 | listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 0:47.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:59.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm at my, you know, current workplace, I get a phone call and they say to me, we need to tell you that your |
| 1:15.7 | mother has died. And I clap my chest and stop breathing because I think they're talking |
| 1:22.4 | about the person who has raised me. |
| 1:24.7 | But I also somehow think he used my previous surname and that made me think, hang on, and then he said the name and I went, oh, her. |
| 1:39.6 | Our guest today embodies one of the earliest objectives of Australian true crime |
| 1:46.4 | in that the event she's here to talk about has long since fallen from the news. |
| 1:51.1 | But she joins us to talk about the many ways it's affected and still affects her family. |
| 1:56.0 | Sarah is a professional woman. She's married with young children and she takes great pride in the |
| 2:01.8 | ordered nature of her life. |
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