Shortcut: An Old School Outlaw - Part Three
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.
This is the conclusion of our three-part edition featuring notorious bank robber and escape artist, John Killick.
Today, we discuss John's last great escape—the 1999 prison break from Silverwater, where he was spirited away from the exercise yard in a helicopter hijacked by his girlfriend, Lucy.
Click here to view and purchase John Killick's books.
John is also a regular contributor to the Maccas Old School Podcast, which you can check out here.
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Guest: John Killick
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| 0:00.0 | This is the conclusion of a three-part edition of Australian True Crime, |
| 0:08.9 | featuring notorious bank robber and escape artist John Killick. |
| 0:13.0 | I wouldn't say listening to the previous episodes before this one is essential, |
| 0:17.3 | but you're mad if you don't. |
| 0:19.0 | Although we're about to delve into John's most daring |
| 0:21.5 | escapade, his life leading up to this point was colourful, to say the least. Today we discuss |
| 0:27.5 | John's last great escape. It's the 1999 prison break from Silverwater, in which John was |
| 0:33.6 | spirited away from the exercise yard in a helicopter that had been hijacked by his girlfriend, Lucy. |
| 0:40.4 | This is Australian true crime. |
| 0:42.6 | We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, |
| 0:46.9 | the Wurundri, Woi Wurang people of the Koolan Nation. |
| 0:50.4 | And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence. |
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