Shortcut: What Went Wrong in the Search for William Tyrrell
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.
The long-awaited findings from the inquest into William Tyrrell’s disappearance are soon to be revealed.
William, just three years old, vanished from Kendall, New South Wales, on September 12, 2014.
Joining us to unpack the police investigation's failures and what we can expect from the inquest is Dan Box, Editorial Director of Audio and host of news.com.au’s latest investigative series, Witness: William Tyrrell.
Click here to learn more about Witness: William Tyrell, news.com.au's latest investigation podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | We're joined again in this episode of Australian True Crime by guest host |
| 0:08.3 | criminologist and forensic pathologist Xanthi Mallet. |
| 0:12.4 | Today we have Dan Box as our guest who I'm very excited to speak to about a new |
| 0:17.6 | podcast that's been running since I think October. |
| 0:20.0 | He's previously worked for the |
| 0:21.3 | Australian, the BBC and the Sunday Times in London. He's the journalist behind the Bowerville |
| 0:26.3 | and Blood Guild Podcasts. Now in terms of the podcast we're going to be talking about today, |
| 0:31.6 | it's part of the Witness series, and this one is entitled Witness William Tyrell. So to give you an introduction, it's 1056am, |
| 0:40.4 | a family home in Kendall on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Three-year-old William Tyrell is reported |
| 0:46.1 | missing. Last seen wearing his favourite Spider-Man suit. Ten years after his disappearance on |
| 0:51.8 | the 12th of September 2014, there is still no sign of William. |
| 0:56.2 | The police believe his foster mother knows something. She denies it. Only one of them can be telling |
| 1:01.6 | the truth. This is Australian true crime. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on |
| 1:07.6 | which this podcast is created, the Warranduri Woi Wurong people of the Koolin Nation. |
| 1:13.2 | And a warning, this episode of the podcast |
| 1:15.9 | contains graphic descriptions of violence. |
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