Re-Issue: Ron Iddles: Australia's Greatest Detective - #9
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This is a re-issue of Australian True Crime episode #9, Ron Iddles: Australia's Greatest Detective. To access all of our back catalogue, you can subscribe to ATC Plus on Apple Podcasts.
Ron Iddles is widely known as Australia's greatest detective. After 42 years of eliciting confessions and nabbing murderers, he had a 99% conviction rate. Known as 'The Good Cop', Ron reflects on the cases that stuck with him. On being the only hope for the families of victims. Having to tell Jill Meagher’s husband his wife was dead, then accuse him of orchestrating it. And why he will never change his phone number. In conversation with Meshel Laurie, the retired Australian police detective shares how he gets inside the psyche of criminals, and the cases that stay with him deep into the night.
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| 0:00.0 | Cold cases are very difficult to solve. |
| 0:06.9 | You don't have the original crime scene. |
| 0:08.9 | You may not have new evidence. |
| 0:10.5 | You may not have new leads. |
| 0:12.7 | But I've always said that the answer is in the original file. |
| 0:17.3 | That the investigators who do the original investigation will have spoken to the killer. |
| 0:28.2 | There's something in the zeitgeist at the moment around former Victorian homicide detective Ron Iddles. |
| 0:34.9 | There's always a lot of love for Ron, but lately I've had more than the usual number of |
| 0:39.8 | requests for us to interview him on Australian True Crime. |
| 0:43.4 | It just so happens that I do have a Ron Iddles interview up my sleeve. |
| 0:47.9 | We recorded it a couple of years ago and I'm so glad we did because Ron has since retired |
| 0:52.7 | from media appearances. |
| 0:55.8 | He will likely make the news again in coming months, though, because of his connection to the Easy Street murders. Suzanne Armstrong |
| 1:01.6 | and Susan Bartlett were found brutally stabbed in their home on Easy Street in Collingwood in January |
| 1:07.0 | 1977. Armstrong's 16-month-old son was discovered unharmed in the home. |
| 1:14.0 | Despite decades of investigation and public appeals, the case remained unsolved. But in |
| 1:19.2 | 2024, there was a major breakthrough when Perry Coramboulis was arrested in Italy |
| 1:24.7 | by Interpol. Australian authorities are working to extradite him as we speak, |
| 1:29.8 | and all things going to plan he'll be tried in Melbourne, |
| 1:32.9 | at which point Ron Iddles, who was a young junior constable at the time of the murders, |
| 1:37.8 | will be called to give evidence. |
| 1:39.9 | That's because he discovered the murder weapon in Corombollis's car just days after the killings. |
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