We've had two blockbuster murder trials in Victoria in the last 12 months.

Most recently we saw Erin Patterson convicted of the so-called Mushroom Lunch murders.

But before that was the case of the High Country murders.

Elderly Campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay disappeared during a weekend away in Victoria's

High Country in March 2020.

Wild rumours circulated about eccentric locals, deer poachers and even packs of wild dogs.

But eventually police charged jet star pilot Greg Lynn with two counts of murder.

Screenwriter and author Greg Hadrick has written a book about the murders,

the investigation and the trial called In the Dead of Night,

and he joins us on Australian True Crime to talk about it.

This is Australian True Crime.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, the

Wurundri Woi Warang people of the Koolan Nation.

And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence. It began with Russell not reporting in on his normal radio, high-frequency radio shift,

and one of his other radio buddies was talking to Robin, his wife, and saying, this is unusual.

So, you know, by now, I think it was four or five days that he hadn't reported in.

They usually did that six o'clock every evening.

Occasionally they missed one, particularly when they knew they were off-bred.

And so they just thought, just didn't feel right.

So they called the local police, and the local police went up there and, you know, very quickly got the Wellington area command detectives up there.

And when I say nothing, it's the middle of nowhere.

There is no phone company.

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