We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in

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.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded. We pay our respects to their

elders, past and present and to Aboriginal elders emerging. After Joanne

disappeared, my dad would get up early in the morning, have a shower, go off to work.

Then he would come home, have another shower, grab the little lunch pack that mom had packed for him,

and he would go out searching for Joe.

Just searching for any signs of the girls, going around speaking with people, hoping that someone,

somewhere saw something that could bring the girls home. On the 25th of August 1973, 11 year old Joanne Ratcliffe went to the football with her parents and

her 14-year-old brother at Adelaide Oval.

A couple of times during the game, she did a favor for an elderly lady who always sat near them

and took her four-year-old granddaughter to the toilet. The last time they went to the

toilet was during the third quarter. In fact, it was the last time either girl was ever seen by their families.

Like the Beaumont children seven years earlier, the girls disappeared in broad daylight

from a public place where they were surrounded by literally

thousands of people. But unlike Jane, Anna and Grant Beaumont, there were a

number of credible sightings of Joanne and Kirstie being snatched from Adelaide Oval that day, and they're horrifying.

This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Lorry and Emily Webb.

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