Rowland Legg on the Bega School Girls and Jaidyn Leskie
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In 1997, fourteen month old Jaidyn Leskie was left by his young mum Bilynda Williams, with her boyfriend Greg Domaszewicz while she went for a rare night out. She never saw her child again. That same year, two families awoke to discover their teenage daughters were missing after a routine camp out with their friends. They were by then, miles away, having been abducted by two troubled young men with no boundaries, and nothing to lose. The responsibility of finding justice for the families of all three, fell ultimately to Rowland Legg and his team of detectives.
You can find Australian Story's two part piece on Prue Bird here and here
You can read Caroline Overington's piece on the Bega School Girls here
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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. |
| 0:25.9 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:35.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 0:45.0 | A different warning for you this week. |
| 0:47.0 | We are talking about crimes affecting children, |
| 0:49.5 | specifically violent crimes. |
| 0:51.5 | And I know for a lot of people that is the deal breaker when it comes to true crime |
| 0:54.7 | so if that is a trigger for you then I'm sorry to say this episode is probably not yours and |
| 0:59.9 | we would ask you to take care of yourself and those in the vicinity. |
| 1:06.0 | That was not a good year 1997 because I had six weeks in Moi and I had six, four or five or |
| 1:11.9 | my crew did as well, four or five or my crew did as well, four or five weeks investigating the girls |
| 1:18.8 | at Beiger. 2020 already seems to have made its mark as a year of sudden celebrity deaths and shocking violent crime. |
| 1:32.0 | After two years of uncertainty and great change the world over, it's all a bit disconcerting, to say the least. |
| 1:40.0 | This week we hear again from Legendary Homicide Detective Roland Legg, who takes us back to 1997, |
| 1:46.6 | which was a year of similar unforeseen upheaval and strife. |
| 1:51.3 | A loose coalition led by the United States had been waging war on and off on Iraq for six years by then with no sign of resolution. |
| 2:00.0 | And 1997 saw the sudden deaths of Princess Diana, Michael Hutchins, |
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