Paul Yoon
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490 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 1 Jul
Paul Yoon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But they broke away.
Isabella was six months old when the bodies were found, able to sit up on her own in a tottering way.
At barbecues and lunches and catch-ups and cafes, Roy and Mandy were asked to tell the story of S, the murdered girl who stayed the night.
They always complied.
As we leaned toward them to listen, I would look at Mandy and at Roy and at everyone else present to see which of us might be willing to suggest that by being kind to S that night,
Roy and Mandy had made her so trusting of Australian strangers that she might, for example, have been less careful if a man approached her on a highway, offering her a ride in his truck.
Maybe no one else ever thought this.
Maybe only I pictured S on a lonely road with her tight braids and her boyfriend, backpack at her feet, one thumb raised, hoping for hospitality and thinking when the truck pulled up that she had found it.
My husband, when I tell him about S, will recognize this part of the story.
Because Sabina and Daniel were only the first of the bodies found at Barrow State.
And what came next, the capture of the man who had chosen his victims at random, the media circus, the trashy books and TV movies, was spread out like a wicked feast for anyone to pick at.
But S was something private, a connection.
She was Roy and Mandy's.
She was mine.
Years passed, despite the existence of evil.
None of our friends would admit to being surprised when Roy and Mandy broke up, but I was.
I had been so sure of the red door, the skylights, the way they looked at each other as they told the story of S.
I had been sure that marriage to a man like Roy, so reliable, so benevolent, would be like stepping onto a throne from which there could be no abdication.
But apparently, they had found themselves in different places, wanting different things.
Isabella was just starting high school at the time.
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