Shortcut: My father the underworld crime figure
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 16 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.
Frank La Rosa and his wife Kim were murdered at a Welshpool (WA) factory on June 13, 2008.
Along with being a convicted heroin importer and notorious underworld figure in Western Australia, Frank La Rosa was also a father to three children.
Lisa Mahoney is one of those children. She joins us on this episode of Australian True Crime to discuss the collateral damage her father's actions have had on her own life and the lives of many others.
Lisa has written a memoir about her life and her father's life as seen through her eyes, titled 'Collateral Damage'. You can purchase it by clicking here.
You can also keep up to date with Lisa by following her Facebook page here.
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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Guest: Lisa Mahoney
Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard
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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. |
| 0:25.8 | This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. |
| 0:29.1 | So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will |
| 0:33.8 | contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian |
| 0:38.3 | true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander |
| 0:41.9 | listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 0:47.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:58.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:07.0 | We're currently at the address of 24th Street, Cudale. |
| 1:12.0 | Adam, I have a search warrant in regards to section 42 of the Criminal Investigation Act |
| 1:17.0 | 2017 to execute on New York premises. |
| 1:20.0 | We're looking for a number of things, forensic samples inclusive of biological matter, |
| 1:27.0 | mobile phones belonging to Frack for Rosa and Kimler Rosa. |
| 1:32.0 | Adam McHale was 23 years old when this search warrant was executed on his home in relation |
| 1:38.0 | to the murders of Kim and headlines around the country referred to the crime as the La Rosa drug dealer murders. |
| 1:55.7 | The story was of course much more complicated than that. |
| 1:59.9 | For Frank La Rosa's long-suffering daughter Lisa, it was the end of the most profound and complicated |
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