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Australian True Crime

The Two Lives Lost After an NRL Grand Final Party

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6979 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In 2018, an NRL Grand Final night in Alva Beach, North Queensland ended in tragedy when 37-year-old Corey Christensen and 27-year-old Tom Davy were fatally stabbed.


Despite a coronial inquest, serious questions remain about the failures of police, paramedics and the justice system that night.


Our guest, journalist Adam Hegarty, revisits the case in his new 60 Minutes podcast Alva Beach: Death at the Door.


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CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie

Guest: Adam Hegarty

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

This episode contains extra content from Alva Beach: Death at the Door.


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0:00.0

And your name please?

0:01.0

Dean. And what's happening there at the moment? I've got two boats trying to break in, please. Do you know who they are at all? Do not know that, do not know. You do know or you don't know? Do not know. I've got an injured woman with me. There's ambulance on the way already. Okay, so... Stay there. Where are they? They're two metres away out

0:22.2

From my front door

0:22.9

And you've got no idea who they are at all

0:26.2

They're just trying to break the air?

0:27.2

No, no, just please send someone, please me.

0:36.5

I'm sure many of you will remember this story.

0:39.6

It's rugby league grand final night, 2018.

0:42.7

A young man has just dozed off in front of the TV in a beach shack owned by his parents

0:47.7

in the tiny North Queensland hamlet of Alva Beach.

0:51.9

He's awoken by the sound of a young woman, a stranger, banging on the front door,

0:57.0

begging to be rescued. She says she's being chased and threatened by a group of men. He's

1:03.1

terrified, but he lets her in and dials triple zero. By the time police arrive, almost an hour

1:09.6

later, two of those men lay dead in the driveway,

1:13.3

stabbed by the resident with a kitchen knife.

1:16.6

The dead men's families say the version of the story depicting them as violent and threatening

1:21.5

goes against everything they were as human beings.

1:25.4

There are audio recordings of most of the incident, thanks to the residents' continued calls

1:30.2

to Triple Zero asking for help, and there are several witnesses.

1:34.3

To most of us, it seems like an open and shut case, an unfortunate consequence of a big

1:40.1

night of drinking.

1:41.9

But a new podcast series offers some new information that at the very

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