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🗓️ 25 March 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Greg Fogarty, author of ALMOST PERFECT: The true story of the Crawford family murders joins us to discuss the story of Elmer Crawford, the "ordinary" family man who hatched an extraordinary plan.
Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.
Show notes for Episode 150:
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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. |
0:07.5 | 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 Bizina 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 | I genuinely thought you had an opportunity for me, like journalism. |
0:31.0 | I thought this sounds cool. |
0:32.0 | This sounds like my ticket to a huge show. |
0:34.3 | It sounded like a multi-level marketing scheme for drug trafficking. |
0:38.9 | Oh, this is like vice, like why am I being like a snitch about this? |
0:41.8 | This is absolutely a story about an important and growing |
0:45.1 | and powerful media entity. |
0:47.4 | There are no villains in this story. |
0:49.6 | There's no winners, but there's no villains. |
0:52.0 | I'm Kasha Mahilovichovich and this is cool mules. |
0:55.0 | We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded. |
1:02.0 | We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, |
1:05.4 | and to Aboriginal elders emerging. The following podcast contains content of a graphic, violent nature and is not suitable for children. |
1:19.2 | It was terrible how he planned it and the way he did it but in the research he did it for a very specific reason and so that the |
1:28.1 | blame would be put on to his wife should they ever be discovered. It's a winter's day in July 1970 and a white F. E. Holden is noticed teetering perilously on a cliff edge at Lockard |
1:51.6 | Gorge on Victoria's Southwest Coast. |
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