Speaker 1: Okay, we are coming back with more episodes of Witness
Speaker 1: William Tyrrel and thank you to everyone, and I mean
Speaker 1: everyone who's got in touch to ask when or even
Speaker 1: if we're going to do this, and the answer is yes,
Speaker 1: we are, and the first episode will be out next week.
Speaker 1: But it has taken us a lot longer to get
Speaker 1: here than we expected. It's taken months longer, and the
Speaker 1: reason for that is that what we thought might be
Speaker 1: simple got complicated. It was like every time we pulled
Speaker 1: on a thread in this investigation, it's led us deep
Speaker 1: into a maze, and we've had to follow all of
Speaker 1: those tunnels, the right turns and the wrong turns, and
Speaker 1: what we've found there has genuinely shocked us. I never
Speaker 1: expected this investigation to get so dark, or that we'd
Speaker 1: end up investigating other murders beyond William Tyrell's disappearance, but
Speaker 1: that's what's happened. And doing this kind of work, finding people,
Speaker 1: talking to them, digging out old documents, flying across the country,
Speaker 1: all of that takes time. This is easily the most complicated,
Speaker 1: the most demanding, and the most long running investigation I've
Speaker 1: ever worked on. And the truth of it is that
Speaker 1: we also would not have got to where we are
Speaker 1: today about to release these four new episodes without you,
Speaker 1: the listeners who've got in touch by email or by
Speaker 1: social media, The people who we hadn't managed to track
Speaker 1: down when we published those first episodes last year who've
Speaker 1: come forward and spoken to us, either anonymously or on
Speaker 1: the record, or the people who've come forward with more tips,
Speaker 1: who've helped fill in the blanks and have really you've
Speaker 1: helped shape this investigation ever since it started. Some of
Speaker 1: you have already influenced the podcast. Others have been the
Speaker 1: sources for other written stories about William's disappearance which have
Speaker 1: been published by news dot com dot Au, and several
Speaker 1: of your tips have also been passed on to the authorities,
Speaker 1: who I hope, I really hope are also doing their
Speaker 1: own investigating. Particularly, I want to mention the sheer number
Speaker 1: of people who've got in touch with us to talk
Speaker 1: about other suspected or convicted pedophiles who lived in the
Speaker 1: area around where William was reported missing, Beyond the several
Speaker 1: people who we've mentioned in this series so far, that
Speaker 1: has genuinely shocked me. Or the other people who've come
Speaker 1: forward to help put us in touch with other witnesses
Speaker 1: or with sightings of William, some of which were reported
Speaker 1: to the police, and not all of them, it seems,
Speaker 1: were followed up. I want to say thank you to
Speaker 1: everyone who's contacted us about crime Stoppers. I now have
Speaker 1: a much better understanding of how that organization works and
Speaker 1: what the police did or didn't do with the countless,
Speaker 1: literally countless reports crime Stoppers received about William. And thank
Speaker 1: you to those who got in touch to talk about
Speaker 1: police search dogs. They're not as reliable as you see
Speaker 1: in the movies or sometimes as you hear about in
Speaker 1: other podcasts. And finally, a special mention to the one
Speaker 1: member of the public who attended the inquest and doesn't
Speaker 1: want to be publicly identified. You know who you are,
Speaker 1: and from our conversations, you have a better idea than
Speaker 1: most about what's coming up in the next four episodes.
Speaker 1: For the rest of you, those episodes will be out
Speaker 1: in a week, but here's a clip of what to expect.
Speaker 2: They were gaut max like the someone had gouged skin it.
Speaker 2: If he wasn't such a devious and a criminal, he
Speaker 2: was clever, except well, I assume he's a pedophile as.
Speaker 1: Young girls and young.
Speaker 2: Boys saying about he took him out to the forest
Speaker 2: at here and tied him up to trees. I can
Speaker 2: just see where I am right now in the shed
Speaker 2: within the telling me this story of this young girl
Speaker 2: that they picked up, and yeah, all had sex with her.
Speaker 1: I have said all I'm gonna say about him, And
Speaker 1: you would at least inquire and ask around and do
Speaker 1: a little bit of digging.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you had fresh and compelling evidence now under
Speaker 2: the double jeopardy legislation, you could have him retry. If
Speaker 2: you're looking at all these unsolved cases, why has no
Speaker 2: task force publicly looked at those cases. We're waiting and
Speaker 2: waiting on the afternoon, but you didn't come out.
Speaker 1: That's next time on Witness, William Tyrrell