Episode 202: The Crimes of Mr. Cruel
True Crime Couple
True Crime Couple Podcast
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 149 minutes
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Summary
The crimes of the man who was given the moniker of Mr. Cruel have been emblazoned in the minds of the residents of the greater Melbourne area for almost four decades now. We do not know if the man who inflicted so much pain into the lives of so many will ever be caught, but we do know the hunt for him will never stop.
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https://melbinmarvels.com/2021/09/04/the-abduction-of-sharon-wills/
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https://whoismrcruel.com/suspects/
Mr. Cruel | The Mystery Murderer of Melbourne (Phyllis Chan’s plea is the first clip in doc.)
Hunting Mr. Cruel
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Patreon, episode 119 of the True Crime Couple. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Kay. |
| 0:05.0 | And I'm John. |
| 0:05.7 | We hope all is well. |
| 0:07.3 | And you know that we are excited to be with you again. |
| 0:10.5 | We are. |
| 0:11.0 | I miss you guys. |
| 0:12.7 | Today I have a case for you that I know John has never heard before, but I know some of you might have, especially if you're from Australia. |
| 0:22.5 | So, and John loves Australia cases. |
| 0:24.1 | I love it. |
| 0:25.9 | Now, I will say that I'm going to apologize in advance for pronunciations. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm going to try my best. |
| 0:32.6 | The first time that I heard this case, well, it's kind of several cases all into one. It horrified me. |
| 0:41.3 | And not being from Australia, it's not something that I grew up knowing about. And I didn't |
| 0:48.0 | discover it until I got into the world of true crime podcasts. So it was absolutely terrifying for me. And the first time I heard about it was on |
| 0:56.7 | a podcast called Case File, which I'm sure some of you listen to. It's an anonymous host that kind of |
| 1:03.0 | like just tells the story and there's no conversations, John. So like as the story is progressing, |
| 1:08.6 | it's just, oh my God, it terrified me. I was like, I cannot believe this is real. |
| 1:12.5 | And how have I never heard of this before? |
| 1:14.7 | So I know that podcast was based largely on a newspaper article that came out in 2016 |
| 1:23.8 | that revealed a lot of new information about the case. |
| 1:27.4 | So what I tried to do is pull from |
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