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Lights Out

233: The Terrifying Mr. Cruel That Abducted Young Girls From Their Homes & Got Away With It

Lights Out

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True Crime, News, History

4.89.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Sources: 
https://www.theage.com.au/national/mr-cruel-filmed-his-victims-say-police-20060408-ge23k9.html
https://www.smh.com.au/national/new-clues-in-police-hunt-for-mr-cruel-20101214-18vna.html
https://www.9news.com.au/national/mr-cruel-puzzle-can-still-be-solved/145154e5-2b98-43f9-85cf-720a92bc8d9e
https://www.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/fbi.pdf
https://melbinmarvels.com/2021/01/26/mr-cruel-serial-rapist-and-murderer-overview-of-case/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Light out, everybody.

0:13.1

What's up, everybody?

0:14.2

Welcome back to another episode of Lights Out.

0:18.1

I'm your host Josh, and I'm your host Austin.

0:20.3

And I'm the producer Daniel and we're back

0:22.4

with another one a very very creepy case from the 80s and 90s out of Australia actually yeah

0:31.5

and this is a I feel like this is a lesser known uh uh, a case actually, because we just kind of randomly

0:40.2

came across it and I was like, huh, what, what is this about? Yeah. And after diving into it,

0:45.8

it's, uh, it's crazy because the individual we'll be talking about today who the media has

0:52.1

given the name, Mr. Cruel is still unsolved,

0:57.2

still uncought, and could potentially still be out there. Hopefully not for the sake of the people

1:03.7

of Melbourne, Australia, because this guy is an absolute monster and quite literally a real-life boogeyman. He pretty much would randomly go

1:16.1

into homes and kidnap young girls. Every parent's absolute worst nightmare and every kid's

1:23.9

worst nightmare as well. And he did this for a number of years and was completely uncought.

1:31.2

And I think the thing about this guy is he is so calculated and so meticulous about these

1:38.8

abductions and crimes that it has been virtually next to impossible to catch him. He's just gone undetected

1:47.1

and has seemingly, you know, vanished off the face of the earth unless he's moved somewhere

1:54.0

else to commit more crimes or something happened to him. But it's still a case that's very much

2:00.0

still being investigated

2:02.2

by the Australian authorities. They said they will never close the cases. Yeah. And there's like,

2:07.7

permanently open, which I'm glad they're, they're keeping, you know, staying on it. Because I think

2:12.3

it's one that maybe could possibly be solved one day. And know we'll finally know who mr cruel actually was

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