People’s fuel tanks got longer. People had less reason to stop. And it’s one of those towns that risk falling off the map. Last Stop Larrimah: An Outback Tale I, resident, Netflix 2023
A piss up, barbecue and a good sing song. ibid. reminisces
Now that Paddy’s gone there’s only ten. ibid. resident
38,000 go missing, or are reported missing, in Australia each year. ibid. rozzer
Reporter: How does everyone get on in this town?
Paddy: They don’t. ibid. TV interview
Who Whacked Paddy? ibid. TV news
16 December 2017: The night of Paddy’s disappearance. Last Stop Larrimah: An Outback Tale II
Paddy left the pub at dusk with his dog Kellie. ibid.
I sacked him [gardener Owen] and told him to go. I wasn’t safe with him here. ibid. Fran
… I killerated Paddy … ibid. rozzers’ audio tape of gardener
It was the story that gripped the nation. A total mystery that reached the highest levels of government. It exploded on social media. One year on there are still questions unanswered. Nicola Bulley: The Disappearance that Gripped Britain, Channel 5 2024
They launch a huge operation … Days would turn to weeks … a mystery that gripped the nation. ibid.
Doubts about police handling of the case are growing. ibid.
Why did it take so long for Nichola’s body to be found? ibid.
How did Nicola end up in the water? Was there foul play? And what new evidence was there about what happened that day? ibid.
It’s late at night in Oklahoma City in April of 1990. Two or three guys are in a truck driving along the road and they see some kind of debris. And they see off the side there’s a body. And it appears to be a young woman, a long-haired woman. And they call an ambulance. Girl in the Picture, Netflix 2022
An all-points bulletin, all the agencies in Oklahoma, on the lookout for a young boy by the name of Michael Hughes who had been taken by a man claiming to be the boy’s father Clarence Hughes … Clarence Hughes’s real name was Franklin Delano Floyd. ibid. rozzer
There were real questions about the death of the boy’s mother who died 40 years before. ibid.
She [Sharon Marshall] told me her mother was hit by a car on a bridge and died when she was in the second grade. ibid. teenage friend
When Michael was missing it was all over the news. ibid.
They got married under the new names in New Orleans. Which means this man married his daughter. It was unbelievable. ibid. rozzer
What happened to Sharon Marshall in this time period between high school until she was found dead on the side of the road? Her death was suspicious but there was no proof Floyd killed her. ibid.
He had a history of abduction, rape and violence. ibid.
He had killed Cheryl Commesso ... guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. ibid.
I shot him [Michael] twice in the back of the head to make it real quick. ibid. Floyd to FBI agents
We now know who she is: Suzanne Marie Sevakis. ibid. woman
You’ve got five friends. They are pals from a disability centre. And they head off to a basketball game and then no-one quite understands what happened after that. Files of the Unexplained s1e3: Missing Yuba County Five, reporter, Netflix 2024
The car has been found seventy miles in the wrong direction. ibid.
On the evening of February 24th 1978 five men disappear after leaving a basketball game in Chico, California. ibid.
They found the car but not the boys. ibid.
1992: The police have stepped up their search for a housewife [Patricia Hall] who’s been missing from home for 18 days … The Confession I, news, Amazon 2022
She got in the car, took off. I just thought she’d be coming back soon. She didn’t. ibid. Keith
There was tension in the whole household. ibid. rozzer
She was adamant she wanted to leave the relationship. ibid. confidant
We suspected Keith Hall had killed her but we couldn’t prove it … A plan formulated in my mind to run an undercover operation. The Confession II, rozzer
What was said in the car: he’s killed her, the bastard. ibid.
I didn’t expect to spend twelve months in prison on remand … I said anything to please her [undercover rozzer]. ibid. Keith
I strangled her. But it wasn’t that easy. ibid. Keith on tape to undercover Liz
His rights have been trashed. A classic case of entrapment. ibid. defence dude
Just a break for a few months, something different. They say a change is a good as a rest. I’m leaving for Japan on 3rd May and plan to return sometime in August. Vanished: The Lucie Blackman Mystery I, letter, Amazon 2024
Getting paid work as a foreigner wasn’t easy. ibid. commentators
Dohan dates. They’re dangerous full stop. ibid.
Lucie does not get back from the date. ibid.
They go to the police and say Lucie Blackman is missing … The British Embassy contacts the police … A mysterious phone call says she has joined a cult and is not coming back. ibid.
Tim and Sophie Blackman called a press conference. ibid.
Some of the [press] stories, frankly, were completely over the top. But they didn’t understand what a hostess bar was. ibid.
Late August in Tokyo, Japan: Lucie Blackman has been missing for more than two months. Her father, Tim Blackman, and her sister, Sophie, had been campaigning tirelessly since her disappearance. Reporters from all over the world had been following the story. Vanished: The Lucie Blackman Mystery II
We found girls had been sexually assaulted. They’d never been publicised, but it happened. ibid.
The name that the bar owner passed on to the police was Eugene. This is not the first time Eugene had come up. ibid.
She’s a foreigner working at a hostess club. Goes on a date with a customer up to the seaside. Vanishes. And there was a commonality in reports coming in from girls working at the clubs. ibid. reporter
And that’s individual’s name was Obara Joji. ibid.
When they [rozzers] went into the cave, that’s when they made the grisly discovery. ibid.
He spoke openly about his hatred of women. ibid.
Coventry, United Kingdom, 1991: It’s one of the greatest unsolved crimes in this country. The Never Ending Murder I: The Incident, Nicola Payne, man, Amazon 2023
Nicola Payne had left her boyfriend and baby son to go to her parents. She simply vanished into the mist. ibid. reporter
It’s just a never-ending real life horror story. The Never Ending Murder II: The Investigation, Nicola Payne, cousin
Barwell and O’Reilly had been arrested, they’d been released, bailed, and enquiries into their movements were still continuing. ibid. rozzer
Julie Dart was last seen alive on the 9th of July last year leaving her boyfriend’s home in Leeds. Ten days later a farmer discovered her body in a field near Grantham in Lincolnshire. She’d suffered blows to the head and had been strangled. ibid. reporter
Barbara Finn was last seen in Yardley Street, and 19-year-old Nicola Payne disappeared near Winston Avenue. ibid.
That left me with two persons of interest: Nigel Barwell and Thomas O’Reilly. The New Ending Murder III: The Trial, review case rozzer
Advances in DNA … We were able to capture more strands of DNA within samples. A tent had been recovered in the initial investigation. And so I asked for the tent to be re-examined … One hair with a root: we submitted that sample in July 2014. And in early September we got the result that the probability that it was anyone other than Nicola was one in the billion. ibid.
Mitochondrial DNA matched either Mary or Thomas O’Reilly … That linked the tent finally to Barwell and O’Reilly. ibid.
We also found a hair that matched Nicola forensically, and that was a public hair. ibid.
Very disappointed. I just sat there and couldn’t believe it. ibid. father