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Australian True Crime

The case against Robert Farquharson

Australian True Crime

Bravecasting

True Crime

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Megan Norris joins us again to talk about the case of Robert Farquharson.

 

Farquharson is the Victorian man who was twice convicted of deliberately driving his car into a dam on the night of Father's Day 2005 for the purpose of murdering his three children, Jai, 10, Tyler, 7, and Bailey, 2.

 

He also launched two failed appeals against his convictions.

 

Recently 60 Minutes devoted an entire episode to the story in which they called for yet another review of the evidence.

 

No one knows this case like Megan Norris. She's a journalist and author who started her career as a court reporter. Megan followed this case from the very beginning, first to write a series of magazine articles.

 

But through that process, Megan developed a close relationship with the mother of the three boys, Cindy Gambino. Cindy asked Megan to write a book about what she was going through, and thank goodness she did, because since Cindy's own death in 2022, that book "On Father's Day" has been her only voice.

 

Megan joins us on Australian True Crime to represent Cindy and to take us back through the evidence against Robert Farquharson.

 

You can click this link to view all of Megan Norris' books, including "On Father's Day".

 

Australian True Crime LIVE is coming to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne this July! It'll be full of special guests and Q+A's, and we can't wait to see you in person. You can find tickets by clicking this link.

 

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CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram 

Guest: Megan Norris

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

This episode contains extra content from 60 Minutes.

 

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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.

0:07.5

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 Bizina 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

This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.

0:29.0

So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will

0:33.7

contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian

0:38.2

true-crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

0:41.8

listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.

0:47.0

The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.

0:57.0

They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.

1:07.0

You know, as journalists, it's a good story for them to tell it. I don't knock that. If he's really innocent, then people should know that.

1:16.3

But when they've cherry-picked the stuff they've cherry-picked, and believe me, they have really

1:21.0

cherry-picked what they've used.

1:23.2

And I'm tinging a lot of it.

1:26.7

Megan Norris joins us again to talk about the case of Robert Farkasen, the Victorian man who was twice

1:36.2

convicted of deliberately driving his car into a dam on the night of Father's Day 2005

1:42.1

for the purpose of murdering his three children, Jay, Tyler and Bailey.

1:48.1

He also launched two failed appeals against these convictions. Recently, 60 Minutes devoted an entire episode to the story, in which they called for yet another review of the evidence.

2:00.0

They compared Farkasen to Lindy Chamberlain and Kathleen Follbeck, two women convicted of murdering their children whose convictions were overturned thanks to subsequent scientific evidence.

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