True Crime Tonight: Snowtown Killer Gets Parole
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Hello there, this is True Crime Tonight. I'm your host, Michelle Laurie. And I'm here with one producer this week. Uh that's Matthew Tankard. Hey Michelle. Hello, Ruby is not here. No Ruby. She's in Bali. I'm just gonna tell you that right now. She's in Bali. So jealous. She is not thinking about crime. She is relaxing by a pool. And uh she'll be back next week, though. And we're here to bring you some true crime recommendations. We've got some listeners to hear from, which I love so much. And we've got a Very big Australian true crime story this week. A big sort of um update on a story that's all coming up and and part of the update is our main interview tonight, by the way. Yep. We're going to hear from a man called Jeremy Pudney, who is a journalist and an author, and he wrote the definitive book.
on the Snowtown Bodies in the Barrels Murders.
So that'll give you a hint.
That is a massive hint as to what I'm really frothing about this week on True Crime Tonight. Welcome back to True Crime Tonight. You're hearing this around Australia and hello, wherever you are in Australia, we have a message from a Kiwi cousin.
We do, yeah. Lee sent us a message on our True Crime hotline. You can find a link to uh send us your own message in any episode of Australian True Crime. Let's listen to this week's
Hi Michelle. I've just been listening to Maggie's story and I think if anyone can move a law, it should be Maggie's bus. Because all the survivors and her bus, she's a hero. She came across as very meek and very mild, but my goodness, she is she's got some some guts. And they weren't her children, but they were Australia's children. I just wonder where the common sense is when it comes to this. I'm struggling with the lack of common sense around essay. W why can't we lock them up for a very, very long time? Because look at the ru the the lives that have been ruined. And Dennis gets to lay on a nice warm bed and and there's no consequences. There's no remorse.
Maggie was a guest on the podcast, Australian True Crime, and she told us the most incredible story. It's really popped off, hasn't it, Matthew?
Dennis McKenna. He was a let's he's kind of labelled as even though you hear this a few times with different people, but whenever I look him up, he's labelled as Western Australia's worst child sex offender. Is that
horrible? And you're right, in Australia we do hear that, especially in the last however many years it's been ten or fifteen years since we had a Royal Commission into it's such a long winded name, isn't it?
Institutional responses to child sexual abuse. Well done. Yeah.
And uh ever since then, unfortunately there have been a few individuals who have been called Australia's worst ever pedophile. So this one happened in Western Australia.
Yeah, in the town of Cattanning.
Tanning. I'm so sorry if you're listening from Catanning because it's not a great mark on the town. There are a couple of officials in the town that Maggie took this news to that she went to and said, look, some young people have disclosed to me that they have been victimized in this establishment and that it's an ongoing thing and the guy who runs it is a pedophile.
Yeah, it was a St Andrews Youth Hostel. Um which, you know, I I think you and I were both thinking it was something else. I thought it was
a boys' home.
Yeah, it's not. Like
for naughty boys. Not at all. It
was where kids would go so they could get to school easily. It was
a farming community. Yeah. So it was like either Have your kids sit on a bus for two hours every morning and every afternoon, or you drive them that way, or we set up this uh hostel that w effectively worked like a uh boarding school.
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