The Albury Torch Murder
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Episode 432 comes from a request from a listener Down Under, the story of a mysterious body found smoldering in a country culvert. It takes ten years to identify the body and name a suspect, but one interested physician claims they misidentified the victim and pinned the crime on the wrong man. Weigh the evidence yourself, and let me know your verdict.
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| 0:43.6 | Popular.com The pale Australian sun of springtime. |
| 0:52.9 | Look down that morning of September 1st, 1944, upon a massive |
| 0:59.0 | patrician bull swaggering through the thick grass verging on how long road, and upon the |
| 1:05.8 | boy driving the prize animal to his father's station. The open fields of the Murray River Flats rolled away on both sides of the winding gravel road, |
| 1:17.6 | for here there were no trees, not even a bush for a thousand yards. |
| 1:23.6 | The boy could see the white posts of the culvert up ahead, the conduit which drained the winter thaws from the land. |
| 1:32.4 | Near the culvert, the bull snorted. He planted his front legs solidly and his flanks quivered. Nothing the boy could do induced him to cross the sewer. |
| 1:45.3 | So the boy let him back, tied him to a fence, then returned to the culvert to remove whatever |
| 1:52.3 | caused the animal to balk. Leaving the bull tethered to the fence, the boy, Tom Griffith, |
| 1:59.7 | hurried two miles back to Albury, where he made a report which sent the |
| 2:04.5 | police of New South Wales hurrying along the road toward how long. Within an hour, they completed a |
| 2:12.5 | preliminary investigation and withdrew a partly burned body from the culvert. With a blackened potato |
| 2:20.3 | sack over the head and chest and the seared remnants of pajamas clinging to the scorched thighs, |
| 2:26.3 | passerby would have mistaken it for a bundle of old rags. The bull's discovery proved to be the body of a shortish woman, her arms about her |
| 2:37.0 | head, her knees hunched up to her chin. Under her sack, her head and face was bound with a towel. |
| 2:45.0 | This towel was charred, but the canary-colored pajama top was scarcely scorched. |
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