Episode 157: The Disappearance of Peter Falconio

In 2001 on a remote stretch of highway in Australia’s Northern Territory, British backpacker Peter Falconio vanished. His girlfriend, Joanne Lees, told police that they had been attacked by a strange man. The subsequent investigation saw local drug runner Bradley Murdoch jailed for life - but questions still linger, especially around the truthfulness of the story that Joanne told...

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/07/patrickbarkham

https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-public-trial-of-joanne-lees-20020714-gdfg91.html

https://www.katherinetimes.com.au/story/5573075/the-last-great-police-tracker-jupurrurla-curtis/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-26/police-trackers-remembered-for-nt-police-force-contribution/10139034

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-06-10/murder-in-the-outback-where-bradley-murdoch-now/

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/only-bradley-john-murdoch-knows-where-peter-falconio-is-buried/news-story/4d03021c759f21fa2d137e7df10f4222?sv=105f37a1b30d718a3abee02790c31c24

https://inews.co.uk/culture/bradley-john-murdoch-now-peter-falconio-killer-what-happened-jail-murder-in-the-outback-434434

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/falconio-killer-a-gun-obsessed-thug-519314.html

https://newscolony.com/viewers-suggest-murdered-british-backpacker-peter-falconio-faked-his-own-death/

https://www.themercury.com.au/national/is-a-gun-found-in-a-dunny-drop-linked-to-the-murder-and-disappearance-of-peter-falconio/story-e6frfkp9-1227765370357

https://www.smh.com.au/national/murdoch-asked-about-getting-rid-of-body-20040603-gdj1rw.html