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Hello everyone and welcome to episode 241 of the True Crime All the Time Unsolved Podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson and with me is always my partner in True Crime. Mike Gibson, give me how are you?

I'm doing good man, how about yourself? I'm doing excellent. Excellent. Yeah, it's always better than excellent. Throw a little flavor in there. Yeah. Now I'm doing really well. I'm having a good week. We've got a good slate of episodes for everyone this weekend.

On T-Cat, we're talking about William Sullivan and Nicole Kaczynski. This is basically a teenage romance that turned into the murder of a parent. It is a good episode. I said teenage romance, but it was really, these two young people were obsessed with each other.

They were certainly were and we're willing to do anything to not be kept apart. Yeah. We're seeing some great support Gibbs. Let's give our Patreon shout outs to Stephen Wolston. What's going on Wolston? Carly Sweezy.

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We are talking about the Crawford family murders in 1970. The bodies of Teresa Crawford and her children Catherine James and Karen were discovered hidden in the family car at the bottom of a gorge off the remote southwestern coast of the Australian state of Victoria.

The four victims live in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. Teresa and her children had been electrocuted and bashed to death in their beds the previous night. The killer loaded the bodies into the family's vehicle.

Drove three hours and somehow arranged for the car to run over the edge of the gorge. Police launched a nationwide search for the family's father, Elmer Crawford to determine first if he was safe.

But I think more importantly Gibbs, they wanted to see what he could tell them about to grew some fate of his family. This search soon turned into a man hunt when it became apparent.

Elmer was the prime suspect, but I think what made the case so terrifying yet intriguing was that Elmer was nowhere to be found in the hours, days, weeks and months following the murders.

The corners in quest held the year after the murders concluded that it was a horrifying case of what we now categorize today as family annihilation.

These are cases where a person statistically, usually a man, kills his partner and children sometimes themselves out of a desire for power control and often revenge.

According to news.com.au, the inquest heard about the nature and extent of injuries sustained by the four victims. All the children had been beaten in the head with a blunt instrument repeatedly, whereas Teresa had been subdued by only one blow to the head.

All but the youngest care had been electrocuted in the years since the murders there have been several developments in the search for Elmer Crawford, but to this day, police don't seem to be any closer to answers than they were at the start of the investigation.

Well, these murders sound brutal.

And if this was indeed a family annihilation, it's horrible to think about, you know, that's just something that I'll never be able to wrap my head around.

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