The Heartbreaking Story This Crime Reporter Can't Forget

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In 2007 when Kate Kyriacou was a reporter for the Adelaide Advertiser, she took up a story of a missing woman named Glenys Heyward.

Glenys, 53, had been due to go on a holiday with her new partner. Instead, she went missing from her hometown of Mount Gambier, towards the Victorian border.

Nowadays, Kate is the Courier Mail's Chief Crime Reporter, and has since reported on many harrowing cases. This one, however, is the one that sticks with her the most. In Kate's own words, "when people say "why didn't she just leave?", this case shows why it's a lot more complicated than that".

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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.
0:07.4	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 Bazzina 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
0:33.8	contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian
0:38.3	true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
0:41.9	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.
0:58.0	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
1:07.0	I think you know every police officer says this too they always have a case that they've never
1:13.5	forgotten that stays with them forever and this will always be that one for me.
1:22.1	Kate Kiryaku is the chief crime writer for Brisbane's Courier Mail, and she's also the author of the excellent book about the undercover operation that caught Daniel Malcolm's killer, called The Sting. In 2007, when Kate was a reporter for the
1:36.3	Adelaide advertiser, she took up the story of a missing woman from Mount Gambia,
1:40.9	whose elderly mom was waiting for a visit in hospital, and whose bags
1:44.8	were packed for a short holiday interstate. The mystery of Glenas Hayward's
1:49.6	disappearance would end up providing Kate with some of the most memorable moments of her career.
1:55.0	So I've been a journalist for 20 years and this is a case that has really stayed with me because it was so incredibly
2:07.0	sad but also as we talk more it will become apparent I report on domestic violence murders a lot and this is the one where to me
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