Vale Cindy Gambino - On Father's Day
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It’s 17 years since Cindy Gambino’s ex-husband Robert Farquharson murdered their three sons, ten-year-old Jai, seven-year old Tyler and three-year old Bailey by deliberately driving his car into a dam on the side of the Princes highway, near Winchelsea, West of Geelong on father’s day in 2005.
Cindy Gambino died last week as the result of a medical emergency at her home in country Victoria. She was just 50 years old.
Journalist and author Megan Norris developed a close relationship with Cindy in the years after the boys’ deaths as they worked on a book together. The book is called On Father’s Day, and Megan was one of our first guests on Australian True Crime back in 2017. She joined us to talk about the extraordinary experience of writing that book.
You can pre order Megan Norris's upcoming book 'Messiah's Bride' here.
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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. The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:40.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 0:48.6 | The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children. |
| 0:54.3 | Father's Day killer Robert Farquerson could serve just 11 years jail for each of the three young sons he |
| 1:04.6 | drowned in a Wincheelsey Dam. He's been given life in jail with a 33-year |
| 1:09.3 | minimum, a sentence rejected by his shattered ex-wife. |
| 1:13.0 | Robert Farkerson hit his guilt standing by grieving former wife |
| 1:17.7 | Cindy Gambino as their three sons were buried. |
| 1:21.0 | J10, Tyler 7 and Bailey 2 |
| 1:24.0 | drowned when Farquerson drove them into a dam near |
| 1:27.2 | which was he on Father's Day 2005. |
| 1:30.1 | He claimed he'd had a coughing fit and blacked out, managing to save himself and not his children. |
| 1:36.0 | But police were convinced it was a deliberate hateful act. |
| 1:39.4 | Their reconstructions backing their belief had driven off the road, fearing around a tree to reach the dam. |
| 1:46.3 | A jury agreed, and in May 2007 found him guilty. |
| 1:50.6 | Cindy Gambino, who had herself refused to believe Farkerson could kill his children, collapsed. |
| 1:56.8 | Two years later that verdict was quashed and the Gambino family endured a second trial. |
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