Shortcut: Unsolved: South Sydney's Forgotten Massacre

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 14 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.

On the morning of December 8, 1941, three men operating a "Pay Car" in south Sydney were unknowingly heading into a brutal ambush.

This story, however, has been lost to history due to it taking place on the same day Pearl Harbour was attacked.

Michael Adams from the Forgotten Australia podcast is back with us for another historical Australian crime.

This is a part one of two part series.

You can listen to Michael's podcast, Forgotten Australia wherever you get your podcasts.

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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.
0:26.0	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.
1:02.0	Michael Adams from the forgotten Australia podcast is back with another historical Australian crime.
1:02.7	It's the story of the pay car ambush of 1941,
1:06.2	and if you don't know what a pay car is, or was,
1:09.4	then you're not alone.
1:10.6	We didn't either, but we have some photos on our Facebook and Instagram for you.
1:15.0	It's adorable, but you won't believe what it was used for.
1:19.0	Michael will explain of course, but as you know, what tends to shock us most when he brings us these
1:24.0	incredible bizarre and often brutal true crime stories from Australia's past is how
1:29.4	on earth they've been forgotten. Well at least this time in the case of the pay car ambush of
1:35.2	1941 there's a reasonable explanation for that. We'll let Michael explain.
1:42.2	It had the I I guess, the bad fortune to happen on the morning of December 8, 1941.
1:49.4	Just across the international date line at Hawaii, the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and the Japanese had
1:56.0	also invaded Malaya and sunk British ships off Singapore.
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