Shortcut: I'm sorry I missed a brutal multiple murder

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

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.

Our guest today is from Toowoomba in Queensland, and he thought he'd seen his fair share of violence and mayhem by the time he'd sobered up in his mid-twenties.

On today's episode, we're talking about a terrible turn of events that landed him back in the middle of incredibly senseless violence, just as he was pulling his life together.

On the evening of May 30th 2005, three teenage boys brutally murdered Michael Thompson, 30, and teenagers David Lyons and Tyson Wilson, both just 17.

Our guest, who was literally on his way to Thompson's flat, was distracted that night by an old mate. It was a distraction that may well have saved his life, but it's also left him guilt ridden ever since.

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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram

Co-Host: Emily Webb. You can find her on Instagram here and listen to her podcast Killer Content here.

Guests: Anonymous

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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.
0:37.0	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
0:47.0	The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children.
0:54.0	I was meant to be at the party that night.
0:57.0	I was on my way there walking past a pub and another mate stuck his out the window and oi come on in so didn't end up at the party.
1:08.8	Went home and I never answered the phone at night and I got a phone call in the early hours of the morning from my ex-partner.
1:20.0	And she's gone, they've just killed everybody.
1:25.0	Our guest today is from my hometown of Tuomba in Queensland, and he thought he'd seen his fair share of
1:34.5	violence and mayhem by the time he'd sobered up in his mid-20s. Our guest had
1:39.2	already spent quite a bit of his life in the correction system. His first experience was at the notorious
1:45.6	Boys Town Center in Bow Desert. We have a separate episode dropping later this week for
1:51.0	ATC Plus subscribers about his Boys Town experience and also
1:55.5	about the Survivor's group that he belongs to. Today though we're talking about a
2:00.6	terrible turn of events that landed him back in the middle of incredibly senseless
2:05.1	violence just as he was pulling his life together.
2:08.6	It was the mid-1990s.
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