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Speaker 1: A warning for listeners that this series contains graphic details,

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Speaker 1: including references to murder and rape. It's a manhunt after

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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty thousand passengers fly in and out

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Speaker 1: Italian police are chasing just one man. Their target, one

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Speaker 1: of australias most wanted. He's just landed in the Italian

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Speaker 1: until they see the person they're looking for. It's September

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and it's the biggest breakthrough in one

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Speaker 1: of Australia's most horrific unsolved murders. The task Force is

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Speaker 1: about to carry out and arrest almost fifty years in

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Speaker 1: the making. In nineteen seventy seven, in the heart of Melbourne,

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Speaker 1: friends Susannahtrong and Susan Bartlett were both stabbed to death

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Speaker 1: in a frenzied ambush inside their home on Easy Street

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Speaker 1: in the suburb of Collingwood. Suzanne had been stabbed twenty

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Speaker 1: Gregory Layan, is caught in the very next room. Their

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Speaker 1: neighbors would find them three days later, sparking an investigation

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Speaker 1: and even a journalist were all on investigator's list of suspects,

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Speaker 1: but it was a teenage boy who lived just a

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Speaker 1: to Rome. Forty nine years, one hundred and thirty persons

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Speaker 1: of interest and a one million dollar reward. Later, authorities

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Speaker 1: capture a jewel Greek Australian citizen. These days, Perry Carumbus's

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Speaker 1: looks and dark hair have faded. He's sixty six now,

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Speaker 1: with wiry, light gray hair and a clean shaven face.

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Speaker 1: His arrest came as a shock to many of us

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Speaker 1: might never be solved, and now it finally had a

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Speaker 1: new lead, and we weren't the only ones in disbelief.

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Speaker 1: Perry's Italian public defender, Serena Tucci, said he was scared

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Speaker 2: During the interrogation, Perry Corumbus availed himself of the right

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Speaker 2: information about what had happened. However, he did proclaim his innocence,

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Speaker 2: and a very important point is that he gave his

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Speaker 1: Cham Perry was just seventeen at the time of the

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Speaker 1: gruesome deaths. So now the question a court has to

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Speaker 1: answer is did a teenager kill these outgoing, adventurous and

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Speaker 1: the nation. This is Victoria's most serious cold case and

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Speaker 1: longest cold case. Forty seven years after the Easy Street

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Speaker 1: double murders, charges have finally been laid today. Right now,

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Speaker 1: the main suspect in one of us traight is most

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Speaker 1: notorious double murder cold cases, is in the air on

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Speaker 1: a flight back to Melbourne. Perry Crumble's fronted court today

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Speaker 1: charge with two counts of murder and one count of rape.

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Speaker 1: My name is Olivia Jenkins and I'm a crime reporter

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Speaker 1: at the Herald's Sun and this is hunting justice. The

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Speaker 1: Easy Street Murders will take you behind the murder investigation,

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Speaker 1: the grueling DNA search to find Suzanne and Susan's killer

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Speaker 1: and into the rough and grunge Collingwood of the late seventies.

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Speaker 1: This is every new detail about the case and the

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Speaker 1: inside look into the lives of the two sues you've

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Speaker 1: who was now accused of their murders. The two sues

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Speaker 1: were so much more than the trail of brutality and

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Speaker 1: heartbreak that defined their horrific deaths, and more than the

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Speaker 1: reason we've come to know their names so well over

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Speaker 1: all these years. Their stories start much earlier and much

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Speaker 1: further away from Melbourne than that fateful night in nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy seven. Susan Jan Bartlett was born in nineteen forty

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Speaker 1: Armstrong was born in Euroa, a Victorian country town about

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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty five kilometers northeast of Melbourne, to

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Speaker 1: parents Bill and Eileen. Bill had been enlisted in the

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Speaker 1: Eileen had four children, Suzanne, her brother Terry, and two

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Speaker 1: younger sisters, Gale and Loretta. The Armstrongs had long had

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Speaker 1: named after Suzanne's great grandfather, Robinson Armstrong, who served as

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Speaker 1: Suzanne Armstrong and her family had lived in Violettown, twenty

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Speaker 1: in the early nineteen sixties. We understand that by the

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Speaker 1: time Sue Bartlett started high school, her mama Lane was

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Speaker 2: Nice, thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's Warren Tucker and Neville Webster. They met as young

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Speaker 1: ago and they've been friends ever since. And they were

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Speaker 1: When I arrived at his neat single story weather board

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Speaker 3: We didn't go to kindergarten.

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Speaker 4: Kindergarten just stand the end of the street well, very close.

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Speaker 4: We've known each other for a long while, and we

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Speaker 4: haven't had a punch out as far as I can remember.

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Speaker 1: Like the girls, Warren and Neville were brought up in

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Speaker 3: Both of the Suits, we used to call them the

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Speaker 3: both pretty outgoing. You and girls struck up a friendship

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Speaker 1: Australian history. Smiling along with her classmates for school picture

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Speaker 1: day is a young Lindy Chamberlain, who was in the

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Speaker 3: I just yelled out as anyone got a talkch then

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Speaker 1: As Neville turns over each page, you can see Sue

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Speaker 1: Armstrong's and Sue Bartlett's names printed in each edition alongside

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Speaker 1: their classmates. Like Lindy's was too. The yearbooks, with slightly

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Speaker 1: of all of their lives that froze their teenage years

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Speaker 1: Murder and notoriety that would later mark them all. But

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Speaker 1: it's the classroom laughs and high school highlights that came

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Speaker 1: before all of that that Warren and Neville remember most

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Speaker 3: Oh, the sort of kids that they talk to, meaning people,

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Speaker 3: and that they'd make friends fairly rapidly. And everyone knew

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Speaker 3: the two Sues. But they were a good company and

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Speaker 3: they were just outgoing young girls. Yeah, both of them.

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Speaker 3: Pretty smart.

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Speaker 4: Hell yeah, sure, both of them.

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Speaker 1: Some people might think there's not a whole lot to

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Speaker 3: When the Beatles came out here on the Beatles and

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Speaker 3: she organized a bus trip to a festival hall. It

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Speaker 3: was one of the big busses. I think it was

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Speaker 3: fair few kids that went down there, but she must

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Speaker 3: have organized the tickets and all that sort of stuff,

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Speaker 3: and everyone had a great time. It was one of

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Speaker 1: Big, big event, or a lot to organize for teen

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Speaker 1: fun to be had back home. Sue Bartlett made sure

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Speaker 3: She was a real organizer. We're just talking before you

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Speaker 3: came about, you know. She organized a party in year

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Speaker 3: an ideal spot. And I remember the year ten one

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Speaker 3: that Sue organized and you weren't supposed to have any grog,

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Speaker 3: if you're partly running to Bill, he would get his

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Speaker 1: Another highlight for the class of nineteen sixty five was

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Speaker 1: a big party Sue Bartlett organized for everyone at an

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Speaker 3: She was fun. She was You might not be doing

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Speaker 3: too much work, but you'd always have a chap to Sue,

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Speaker 3: or Sue would be sort of joking and carrying on.

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Speaker 3: She was an outgoing, sort of really attractive young girl.

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Speaker 3: Unlike the photograph.

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Speaker 1: Song in the media, the sus had carved out a

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Speaker 1: reputation as a package deal at Banella High. While Sue

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Speaker 1: Bartlett had a classic look about her, Sue Armstrong was

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Speaker 1: described as more flower power. Their academic interests varied quite

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Speaker 3: Sue Bartlet seemed to swain the arts and that sort

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Speaker 3: eventually after she left Skirls she finished up doing secondary

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Speaker 3: art teaching of course, and taughting schools all over the

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Speaker 1: Sue Bartlett was also a keen debater. She even made

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Speaker 1: sure her team got their time to shine on local

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Speaker 3: Sue Armstrong wanted to do math sciences and there were

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Speaker 3: only a few of us who are only about I

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Speaker 3: And so sir Armstrong was in that little group who

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Speaker 1: Bernie Schaiver's was friends with the girls too, and just

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Speaker 1: like Neville, he regularly calls into Warren's place when he's

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Speaker 3: Bar it ain't that right, ain't go ahead?

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Speaker 1: Like Warren and Neville, Bernie's in his mid seventies now

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Speaker 5: Includes at bart in nineteen sixty one, read the start

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Speaker 5: Oh? She just a just at the ordinary average yeah,

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Speaker 5: Tell of the boys, oh gee, she's a good look again,

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Speaker 3: All the comments were, yeah, when there's an arms carrying.

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Speaker 5: But she met thirty, might have been fourteen when I

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Speaker 3: Yet she was well every yeah, I just like everyone

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Speaker 5: Everyone wasn't stuck up or anything. It was just just

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Speaker 1: But when the last years of high school approached, the

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Speaker 3: It was pretty common, pretty common to Yes, for Susanne

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Speaker 1: As life often does, it took the two suits and

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Speaker 1: Like Sue, Bartlett never studied to become a teacher, and

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Speaker 4: She worked down the end of Cilwaite Street and it

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Speaker 4: I think I'm still paying for it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I often see her down there on a Friday.

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Speaker 4: She still remembered me. What's good?

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Speaker 4: With me, but she was very nice to tell me

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Speaker 2: In a very nice way.

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Speaker 1: Well, it sounded like you were on a decent list

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Speaker 1: of as soon as she sounded like a very bright Oh.

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Speaker 1: After high school, Susan Bartlett studied to become a teacher.

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Speaker 1: She'd wind up in Melbourne too, taking up a job

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Speaker 3: Toerious, adventurous and one statuous arriving taxis. And I remember

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Speaker 3: all good people. She'd always hear the good in people,

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Susan set off on her own adventure in Greece.

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Speaker 1: With both of the Sues and Greg now back in Melbourne,

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Speaker 1: description of this episode. Suzanne was devoted to Greg and

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Speaker 3: Was kind of just got these hooded eyes like they're

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Speaker 4: It is said by some that there was nothing you

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