The 50 Year Mystery of Terry Floyd's Disappearance
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Content Warning: This episode contains depictions of child sexual assault. Please find below the contact details for some support services.
Guest host Dr. Xanthé Mallett speaks with veteran radio journalist Dee Dee Dunleavy about her new podcast, The Boy in the Goldmine. The series investigates the 1975 disappearance of 12-year-old Terry Floyd in Avoca, Victoria.
The podcast features interviews with Terry's brother Daryl, who has spent decades searching for answers, and former homicide detective Charlie Bezzina, who joined the case as a private investigator in 2011.
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Guest Host: Dr. Xanthé Mallett
Guest: Dee Dee Dunleavy
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains accounts of child sexual assault. |
| 0:04.6 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:07.8 | So what's going to happen now? |
| 0:09.3 | You're just hoping upon hope that he's going to get in touch with you? |
| 0:11.9 | Yes, just hoping or whatever the police can do to help us now. |
| 0:15.3 | If he happens to be watching television tonight. |
| 0:17.3 | Yes, and if you are watching Terry, please get in contact with your |
| 0:21.2 | mother and father. Not knowing where he is or what's happened to him, it's the worst. It's |
| 0:29.3 | not knowing, it's a killer. I don't think he's alive. |
| 0:43.7 | We're joined again in this episode of Australian True Crime by guest host, |
| 0:47.6 | criminologist and forensic anthropologist Dr. Zanthi Mallett. |
| 0:52.5 | Today I'm joined by someone who, if you're from Melbourne, you're certainly going to know, |
| 0:57.9 | journalist and veteran Melbourne radio journalist, D.D. D.D. Del Nive. Levy. |
| 1:03.1 | Now, she returns with her new investigative true crime podcast, The Boy in the Goldmine. |
| 1:07.2 | Now, this podcast examines the disappearance of 12-year-old Terry Floyd in the small country town of Avoca back in 1975. Now for five decades, Terry's |
| 1:13.6 | younger brother Darrell has been searching for answers. He's even been digging in an old gold mine |
| 1:18.2 | where he believes Terry's body has been left. This is a nine-part true crime series, written |
| 1:24.7 | research by Dee Dee, using her amazing journalistic background to share this |
| 1:29.2 | compelling story, and also features former homicide detective Charlie Bazina, who has worked as a |
| 1:35.1 | private investigator on the case since 2011. |
| 1:38.9 | This is Australian True Crime. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this |
| 1:43.5 | podcast is created, the Wurundri Woi Warang people of the land on which this podcast is created, |
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