Tom and Eileen Lonergan | Ep 210
Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast
Allison and Mike
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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In 1998, Tom and Eileen Lonergan boarded a dive boat in Australia expecting a day exploring the coral-covered depths of the Great Barrier Reef. Instead, they surfaced to find the ocean empty—no boat, no crew, no one. What followed was a string of errors, oversights, and assumptions that left the couple stranded at sea, invisible to the very people who were supposed to ensure their safety. Theories about what happened in those final hours have never stopped swirling: were they victims of incompetence, a murder-suicide, or something they planned all along? Allison tells us the rest of this story that hinges on one fatal miscount and a message that might've been written just in time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode with the crime and coffee couple. My name's |
| 0:07.9 | Allison. And my name's Mike. Hi, Mike. Hey, my little beautiful pink petunia pickle bottoms. How are you? |
| 0:13.8 | I'm doing pretty good. How are you doing? Good, good. I thought of that one in the shower today. |
| 0:17.0 | I was like, what am I going to call her today? I think something about petunias and something about pink. And then I got to have another Pee for alliteration purposes. Pink petunia pickle bottoms. Yeah. I like it. Yeah, I like it too. I like you. So how's, how's your life going so far? I'd say it's status quo. Our son is on the baseball team, which I think we mentioned. So he's got a lot of baseball playing going on. It's a huge deal for us because he's tried so hard and he, you know, |
| 0:21.1 | we never put him into any travel leagues got a lot of baseball playing going on. It's a huge deal for us because he's |
| 0:37.8 | tried so hard. And he, you know, we never put him into any travel leagues like a lot of people do |
| 0:41.6 | and stuff. So maybe we held them back a little bit. Maybe it's our fault. But, uh, man, he, he just works super, super hard. And he made the team. And even if we talked about it again, we're going to do it again because we're so darn proud of them. |
| 0:35.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.5 | So other than that, |
| 0:36.7 | I'd say everything's going pretty smoothly. |
| 0:38.8 | Knock on wood, |
| 0:39.4 | that keeps going. |
| 0:40.9 | But we were laughing because Mike is usually like, say Sunday, we want to treat ourselves, maybe pick up some bagels or get some coffees. Mike's always a runner. He's so sweet like that. Yeah, it's nice. It's nice to get away from the house. Then I don't have to listen all your belly aching and stuff like that. And he was like, oh, what do you want? Some kind of latte bullshit or whatever. I hate to swear on this, but, and then you brought up the whole Larry David skit if you watch Curb Your Enthusiasm. And we're going to play that for you guys. I'll take a mocha. And I'll have a vanilla, one of the vanilla bullshit things. |
| 1:32.8 | You know, whatever you want, some vanilla bullshit latte, cappa thing, you know, whatever you got. |
| 1:38.8 | I don't care. |
| 1:39.5 | You go ahead. |
| 1:40.7 | It's a cafe latte? |
| 1:42.0 | What is that? |
| 1:42.8 | Milk? |
| 1:43.4 | Milk and coffee. Yeah. Milk and coffee. You don't want to that milk milk milk and coffee yeah milk and coffee you would have |
| 1:46.7 | thought milk and coffee oh my god what a what a drink you want to take off it's milk and coffee |
| 1:53.2 | mixed together you've got to go there sit down have a donut have a bagel you you absolutely |
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