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Australian True Crime

Re-Issue: The Falconio Mystery Continues - #120

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6979 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this month, Bradley Murdoch died in Alice Springs Hospital's palliative care unit. This episode is a re-issue of our episode from 2019, "The Falconio Mystery Continues".


Show notes:

Bradley John Murdoch isn't a good man, but did he murder Peter Falconio? That's the question posed by inimitable True Crime author Robin Bowles in her book DEAD CENTRE and she joins us to explain her exhaustive investigations. Most shocking of all, is the lack of evidence of any crime having been committed.

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Host: Meshel Laurie

Guest: Robin Bowles


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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

She looked at the jury with her great big eyes and a little pathetic face and she said,

0:13.0

He punched me right here and she put a finger on her temple.

0:18.0

And you can almost hear the jury go, oh.

0:24.0

But in fact, they interviewed the doctor subsequently,

0:27.9

and he said she didn't have a mark on her face, number one.

0:31.7

But well before that, when I interviewed Murdoch the first time,

0:34.4

he put his elbow on this table where we were,

0:38.7

and he made a fist, and his fist was the size of a rock melon. He's a big man and he said, that bitch reckoned I punched her in the face. He said, if I'd punched

0:43.9

her in the effin face, I would have broken her effing jaw.

0:51.6

One of Australia's most notorious convicted killers, Bradley John Murdoch, died recently while serving a life sentence for the 2001 murder of British tourist Peter Falconio.

1:03.7

He was also convicted of kidnapping and assaulting Falconeo's girlfriend, Joanne Lees.

1:09.7

It's been said that during his time in prison, Murdoch was

1:12.7

friendly with male prison guards, but despised their female counterparts. He was apparently a keen gossip,

1:19.7

known for turning other prisoners against each other when the mood took him, and they say he kept a

1:24.5

copy of Joanne Lee's autobiography, No Turning Back, in his cell.

1:29.8

Before his conviction for Falconio's murder, Murdoch faced charges of kidnapping and raping

1:34.6

a 12-year-old girl in South Australia, and he served time in Western Australia for shooting

1:39.8

into a crowd of football fans in Fitzroy Crossing.

1:43.6

Upon his death, though, his family described him as a proud poppy

1:47.9

and a gentle giant with a heart of gold.

1:52.1

There were hopes and even suggestions that he might drop a bombshell

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