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Australian True Crime

Paul Dale Pt 2. The Crimes in Question #146

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6979 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

“Disgraced former Drug Squad Detective” Paul Dale was charged with robbery, and then with murder. Some find it hard to believe he’s not in jail or dead, he says he’s an innocent victim of the Lawyer X scandal. You be the judge.


Purchase COPS, DRUGS, LAWYER X AND ME by Paul Dale and Vikki Petraitis.


Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.


Show notes for Episode 146:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Paul Dale and Vikki Petraitis

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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.

0:29.0

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded.

0:34.0

We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, and to Aboriginal elders emerging.

0:40.0

The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children.

0:45.6

Mr Dale was arrested on this date for this burglary and such a date the main witnesses were murdered. He was then charged

0:55.8

with this. On such and such a date this person was murdered. Again, the only witness against him.

1:01.0

I mean, when you look at the chronology of all of that, yes, you could look at that and just go, well, it's got to be him. Last week we heard from disgraced former drug squad detective Paul Dale about his early

1:24.4

career and the crazy hazy days of policing Melbourne's drug-driven

1:28.7

underworld in the early 2000s. We heard about food court meetings with famous gangsters, about suburban pubs where criminals

1:36.6

and detectives drank together at the end of the day, and about trying to get on with your

1:41.0

life when you've been accused of committing terrible crimes, but no one's quite been able to convict you or kill you.

1:49.0

This week, we'll delve deeper into some of those crimes.

1:54.0

This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Lorry and Emily Webb.

1:58.0

Come with us as we go beyond the news cycle to find out how people become killers, how people become victims and what happens next.

2:06.5

Next week we hear from Mandy Hodson, who along with her brother Andrew discovered the bodies of her parents, Terry and Christine

2:15.1

Hodson in their home in May 2004.

2:19.7

They'd both been shot twice in the back of the head at close range as they knelt on the floor

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