Shortcut: Setting the record straight on Christopher Dale Flannery, AKA Mr Rent-a-Kill

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 20 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.

Ray Mooney joins us again this week to tell us about his friend, Christopher Dale Flannery (AKA Mr Rent-a-kill).

Chris was a teenager when they first met in Pentridge Prison. Chris was not long out of the notorious Morning Star boys home in Victoria's Mt Eliza.

Over the following decades, they maintained their close friendship. While Ray Mooney went on to become a published author, playwright, director and educator, Chris went on to become Australia's best known hitman.

Chris disappeared in 1985. Ray says that since then, many have taken the opportunity to say things they wouldn't have dared say when he was alive.

Today, Ray sets the record straight and shares the true story of Christopher Dale Flannery's life, and what he believes is the most likely truth of his death.

All of Ray's books and more can be found on his website here: https://raymooney.com/my-books/

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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
0:24.3	have to book quickly.
0:27.0	The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.
0:39.0	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	One of the things that Rogerson used to say to Chris was,
0:58.0	look, mate, every time you've done one of your hits,
1:01.0	you've left the body for us.
1:02.0	He said, look, come and I'll show you what we do.
1:10.6	That's Ray Mooney, who joins us for the second time this week.
1:14.0	This time he's here to tell us about his friend Chris.
1:17.0	Chris was a teenager when they met in Pentridge Prison.
1:20.0	It was Ray's first time in a place like that. But Chris was not long out of the notorious Morning Star Boys Home in Victoria's Mount Eliza,
1:29.0	run by the brutal Franciscan brothers.
1:31.6	Over the following decades decades they maintained their close
1:34.2	friendship as Chris, aka Christopher Dale Flannery, aka Mr Renterkill, went on to
1:40.2	become Australia's best-known hitman and Ray Mooney became a published author, playwright,
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