For 10 Years Paul Has Been Hunting His Daughter's Killer
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What tragic phone call did Paul receive that started the investigation?
It's 7 p.m. on a November Wednesday in 2016. And Paul Warren is sitting in his living room in Melbourne, helping his seven-year-old son with his math homework. The phone rings, and he sees on the caller ID that it's one of his two daughters, Christy. She lives with her mother, Paul's ex-wife, in a nearby suburb. As he puts the phone to his ear, he hears screaming. A woman's guttural, desperate screams, a Christie, he asks, his stomach tightening in panic. What's going on? She manages to say two words. Two words that will change Paul's world forever. Ellie Dead. His beautiful twenty year old daughter Ellie. Is gone.
I'm Gemma Bath, and you're listening to True Crime Conversations, a podcast exploring the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. Despite only being twenty years of age, Ellie Warren was a seasoned traveller. She'd been to multiple continents on countless adventures since the age of seventeen. In twenty sixteen She was on a months-long trip to Mozambique, Africa, when Paul got that horrific call from his youngest daughter. His eldest child, his beautiful Ellie Rose, was dead. For the last 10 years, Paul, a retired industrial engineer, has found himself forced into the role of unlikely investigator, as both local and Australian authorities dragged their feet while investigating his daughter's death.
He has been the one uncovering new evidence. He's been the one gathering witness reports. He's been the one tracking potential suspects. In 2023, after years of insistence from Paul, an inquest was held in Melbourne. It stopped short of declaring Ellie's death a homicide, something Paul can't wrap his head around. He's released a book called Hunting Ellie's Killer, chronicling his fight for the truth. He's Paul.
Paul, thank you for joining us on True Crime Conversations. Can you tell us about Ellie? What made her special?
Uh look. Allie and I, you know, our relationship was was was a blossom. We we we got along like a house on fire. It was quite amazing really. Um and it it's a terrible loss for me. It's really heart wrenching. And you know, like She would uh she'd come around to the house at any time, break in, and I'd I'd I'd be I'd come in and and she'd have a big cheeky smile on her face and and we we we just did everything together. We know we went camping and we went sailing and it's um it's it's just completely devastating for me. Um she's she's was such an adventurous girl. Um she'd been overseas quite a few times before she She turned twenty. And um, you know, she was very uh robust, very intelligent. um and cheeky.
She would debate anything. She was actually very intelligent. Extremely intelligent Ali was and uh and I would have a debate with her and I'd I'd try and try and keep up with her. But it was very difficult at times, you know. She's she was just uh Uh, the one thing that she liked to debate the most was about creation and and how it all started and everything. And I used to tease her about it, but Yeah, so that was fun. And uh She was basically, you know Any father would be proud of a daughter like Ali. She was just so wonderful. Uh and and as you can see, like you if if you look at her um her background before she turned twenty, She passed away. Um, she'd been overseas quite a few times, so she loved it. And when she was in Tufa, she was loving it there, you know.
S she did her dream swimming with the whale sharks and and the manta rays and everything, and you know, uh the Facebook pictures and I used to get back to her about that and but she loved it when she was there and it was uh her element, you know.
Because she planned to do marine biology, didn't she? That was her kind of next plan in life.
Well, yes, when she was coming back she was going to James Cook University, you see, to do that. Um so what she was doing was she's trying to cram everything in and she'd worked three jobs, four jobs sometimes. She'd be so tired, you know, she'd come to my place and she'd she'd say, Pick me up, dad from Waves and and and I c and to come and see Sam and me because she didn't have time, you know, and and she saw us for twenty minutes but she fell asleep on the couch 'cause she was so tired.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What tragic phone call did Paul receive that started the investigation?
0:02–8:50
2
How did Ellie’s adventurous lifestyle shape the early part of the story?
8:50–17:22
3
What events unfolded on Ellie’s final night in Tofo?
17:22–25:48
4
Why does Paul believe the local police moved Ellie’s body and altered her clothing?
25:48–34:10
5
How did the forensic findings about sand in Ellie’s lungs challenge the official reports?
34:10–42:01
6
What were the key disagreements between Paul and the Australian authorities during the inquest?
42:01–48:38
7
How did Paul’s personal investigation lead to the creation of his book and a proposal for future cases?
48:38–56:27
8
What does Paul say about coping with grief and moving forward after ten years of searching?
56:27–1:04:46
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