WEBVTT - The Tapp tragedy revisited: Part 2 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.080 Last week on Life and Crimes. He goes into Margaret's 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.600 bedroom and sees Margaret's body in bed, and he went 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:10.920 close enough to realize that she was dead. And he 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:15.160 goes into Shawna's bedroom and he sees Shanna dead on 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.320 the bed, and it really affects him because he had 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.520 a little girl the same age. One thing they did 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:25.040 find that probably is the only strong clue to the 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:30.200 killer's identity worth some unidentified footprints left by a Dunlop 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:34.040 Volley Sanchu. I'm Andrew Rule. This is Life and Crimes. 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.720 Last week we looked at the first half of the 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.760 story of the Tap murders, the murder of Margaret Tap 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.920 and her little daughter Shawna back in nineteen eighty four. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.120 It's forty years ago. This week, we're going to pick 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:54.120 up that story and expand it and look at all 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:59.520 the potential leads that were or were not followed. The 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.920 thing about Margaret Tap is that she knew so many people, 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.600 and so many people liked her. She got along well 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.000 with people. She knew a lot of blokes, a lot 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.160 of them became her lovers. It was known the police 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.800 discovered that there might have been half a dozen who 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:19.399 worked at the William Anglis Hospital that at some point 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:24.360 either had been her lovers or were suspected of same. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.440 And this of course led to a lot of complications 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.279 for the police in trying to navigate their way around 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:36.720 such tricky social areas where you've got married professionals who 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.360 are very well lawyered up and who don't want to 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:44.120 be caught out. And so the police had their hands 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:49.480 full checking out those leads. But the man that she 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:56.000 really loved, the one she really wanted, was doctor John Bradkey. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.280 Now John Bradkey was a doer. He was a South 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.680 Australian of you know, the sort of German extraction over 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.200 in South Australia. There's a lot of those Lutheran German 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.720 people that are farmers by origin. We see the names 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.560 crop up always, you know, out of the Clare Valley 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:19.239 and all that. And he was a successful, hard working doctor. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.560 He was married, he had I think three children, and 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.400 he and his wife had a lovely property with trees 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.400 and all sorts of beautiful stuff and it was a 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:31.400 showpised property. 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:31.600 You know. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.200 He clearly was a man of wealth and taste. But 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:41.120 his weak point in this case was Margaret Tap. Margaret 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.080 Tap was a striking woman. She had red hair, she 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.880 had high cheek bones, she had sort of green eyes 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:53.240 like a cat, and she had a bright and bubbly personality. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:58.760 She was intelligent, she was vivacious, and she liked men. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:03.680 Men liked her, and clearly she had a bit of 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:09.280 a hypnotic effect on people because so many people fell 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.320 for her. But John Brakie was the love of her life, 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.680 she told friends. And we know this because a you know, 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.440 he actually bought her the house that she lived in 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.840 at Calvin Drive, the one she later was able to purchase. 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.720 She had to pay out half of it by paying 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.440 out Bracky's widow. We know it because we know that 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:39.040 before Brakey's death, at one point Margaret, who was quite excitable, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.320 she went up to break his house in the Dandy Knocks, 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.040 to break his home and she stripped off her clothes 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.160 and lay down in their garden and created a terrible 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:52.600 scene to embarrass him. At another time, she damaged his 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.600 much loved DA's and sportscar, the one in which he 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.160 was killed. Actually, she has to scratch the paintwork or 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.640 keyed it or whatever, the usual sort of stuff that 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:07.400 angry lovers get involved in, and all of which tells 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:14.320 us that this love affair between the doer doctor and 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:21.520 the dashing, beautiful nurse was mercurial and dangerous. It was 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:27.320 years of living dangerously and after breakis death on the 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.560 first of March nineteen eighty three in his car driving 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.200 down the hill too fast to deliver a baby. He 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.960 was heading off to the hospital to deliver a baby. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.840 After his death, it would appear that Margaret in some 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.320 respects settled down in that she paid out the house 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.520 and she got her son to move in with her parents, 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.039 and she and Shauna lived in the house while she 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:54.200 took up studying law and these other things. But she 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.520 also I suspect, having missed out on John Brake and 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:03.360 grief stricken over John Key, she started to knock around 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.760 with whichever blog her eye fell on, and one of 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.880 them was one of the fellow law students from one 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:14.440 as UNI. One of them was the allegedly the guy 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.400 that was teaching her to drive trucks, one of them 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.720 was somebody else, and one of them was somebody else. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:24.080 So there were a whole heap of people that had 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.279 come into her orbit. One of the things that was 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:31.040 obvious to me was that there were just so many 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.160 candidates for the police to check. Now, in the nineties, 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.080 DNA came to be a thing. In the eighties, DNA 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.760 had been science fiction. In the nineties, suddenly it was 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.039 a police tool. Not as good a tool as it 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.039 is today, but it became a very useful tool for 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:54.760 the police. And what they had was a semen sample 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:59.279 that had been deposited on Shawna's night dress. Now this 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:03.760 would suggest that the killer, of course, is a sexual deviate. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:08.400 That this murder is not a burglary gone wrong. This 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.200 murder is not a case of a rapist looking to 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.680 attack Margaret, the thirty five year old mother. It is 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.840 a sexual deviate who has an interest in a nine 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.760 year old girl. There's no way around that. That's what 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:27.080 it is. And it certainly doesn't look like a hit, 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:31.479 a paid hit. They were both strangled and there is 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.200 seamen found on the little girl's night dress. This is 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.440 unlike any other hit in history. If it's a hit, 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.720 so I'm tipping it's not. That didn't stop the homicide 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:46.920 squad at one stage floating a fairly bizarre theory that 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:53.680 Dr Bradkey's widow had paid a person a man to 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.919 kill Margaret Tap out of spite and anger and revenge 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.480 and all the rest of it, to kill her dead 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:04.160 husband's ex lover. This would appear to be highly unlikely. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:08.360 The doctor's widow was outraged by this suggestion, and in 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:13.200 fact got a press counsel ruling that stories making that 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.560 suggestion overstep the mark. And I think she made her 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.000 case very well and very strongly that it was a 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.320 fairly bizarre thing for the police to suggest. And one 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.360 of the problems of that theory was they said she 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.120 paid this man a large amount of money. Well, the 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.560 fact was, she says she and her husband brad Key, 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.080 when he was alive, had lent this particular man money, 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.440 and by the time Margaret was murdered in nineteen eighty four, 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.400 that man had paid back most of that money. So 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:48.080 the police's information was sort of out of kilter, deliberately 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.400 or what. I don't know, but it just didn't really 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:56.240 stack up. But what stacked up more to a neutral 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:01.720 observer such as ourselves, is this Margaret knew a lot 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.400 of men. A lot of men knew Margaret. So there's 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.480 the ones we've already been through, the ones that were cleared, 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.720 you know, the brother in law, the ex neighbor, the 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:16.200 ex husband. Then we've got her own brother, Lindsay Nelson, 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:20.360 who recently he died two years ago. Lindsay told me 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.160 that for years and years and years he was not 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:28.240 tested for DNA. And he said to me in two 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:32.120 thousand and four he said this, And then later he said, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.720 if they didn't test me him, who else didn't they test? 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.840 Because there he is, he's the uncle of the little 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:43.600 girl Shauna. He should have been eliminated because he had 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.280 access to the house. He would have known how to 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.880 go through the back door. What if he was a fiend, 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.600 what if he was a raving pedophile killer, whatever? Whatever 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.760 he said, He wasn't clear. And he pointed out that 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:59.160 he worked for a particular counsel out there, and that 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:03.680 he'd borrowed it truck with a driver from the council. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.240 Well borrowed a loose word, that'd actually commandeered the truck 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.920 and took it more or less illegally a council truck 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.840 to move some gear into Margaret's house, tables and stuff. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.760 So he said, the guy that drove the truck is 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.240 called you know, Bill Blogs. And I went and knocked 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.760 on Bill Blogs's door one day. But Bill Blogs was 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.920 a shifty character. Bill Blogs had form for doing dishonest things. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.640 In fact, he was sacked from the council for breaking 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.280 fire hydrants with crowbars so that he would be called 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.120 out after ours to fix the hydrants so he woud 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.679 get overtime. So he was a bit of a crook. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.440 He used to receive stolen goods, pinch stuff, you know, 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.160 he was one of those sort of guys. And also 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.960 Bill Blogs, not his real name, used to drive a 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:55.480 hot red falcon Ute and it was a really good 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.640 hot falcon Ut with what they called twelve slaughter mag 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:04.120 wheel These were the very expensive mag wheels, twelve slaughters. 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:09.760 And one of the clues that neighbors gave police they 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:15.800 said they'd noticed such a vehicle in Calvin Drive around 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.720 the week of that murder. Now this is not a 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.800 positive sighting. It doesn't actually put Bill Blogs in the frame, 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:29.679 but it's interesting. Lindsay Nelson, Margaret's brother, Shawana's uncle says 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:34.240 to me, how come that bug, Bill Blogs hasn't been cleared. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:39.080 Why wasn't he clear? How come all these other guys 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.120 he thinks haven't been cleared. There was a young guy 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.960 teaching Margaret how to drive a semi trailer. Margaret was 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:52.040 an enthusiast. Margaret had a lot of energy. Margaret was mercurial. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:57.160 Margaret was up for new experiences. And one of Margaret's 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.480 ideas was she would get a semi trailer license a 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.599 truck lasnon so she could help friends in South Australia 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.000 bring in their grain crop over summer. Go over there, 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.320 work in summertime, driving a truck back and forth to 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.400 the wheat silos. She was that sort of person. She'd 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.319 give anything a go. She was getting her truck license 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.200 with instructions from a young man who was happy to 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:23.040 give her free lessons because he really enjoyed her company. 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:29.120 That guy should have had his DNA tested because who 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.480 knows what might have happened there. That guy's circle of 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.080 friends should have been tested, you know. Did he know 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:41.360 someone else that knew Margaret through the truck driving thing. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.600 We don't know. In the same street, there was a 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.720 house at the end of the street on the corner 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:52.520 of Ferntry Gully Road and Calvin Drive I think it was, 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.679 and that family were regarded as sort of the black 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.160 sheep of Calvin Drive. Dad was an interstate trucky. They 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.240 are pretty rough and ready. There was a lot of them. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:04.880 There was a lot of boys in the family grown up. 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.200 When I say boys ranging from a teenage kid of 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.360 about fourteen up to twenty eight years old or whatever. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.959 I tracked down a couple of those young fellows and 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.880 they said to me, we weren't cleared. And one of 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.160 them had the common sense to say that they. 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:22.840 Should have been cleared. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.760 He said we should have been cleared because he said, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.360 I worked at Bowater scott or one of the big 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.680 factories out there. I used to come home at midnight 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.400 from shift work. He said, I was a perfect candidate, 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.040 but the police didn't come and test me or question me. 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.640 He said, I should have been tested and eliminated, and 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.880 so should my brothers, and so should my sister's boyfriend. 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:49.640 Sister's boyfriend lived in the caravan beside these people's house. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.200 He did time for rape, did time in Pentridge prison 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.760 for rape. So there we've got a whole family of 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:03.120 rough young bugs from fourteen to twenty something. And the 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:07.320 sister's boyfriend who's a convicted rapist or was later convicted 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.360 of rape and did time. None of them were tested 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:16.680 at that time. This means that the police managed to 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:22.440 miss for some time, maybe forever, but certainly for many years, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:27.680 they didn't eliminate a whole group of people, any one 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:32.960 of whom could have been the murderer. But wait, there's more. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:38.080 A few years ago, not that long ago. Let's stay 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:43.000 just before COVID. Back in there. I was approached by 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.880 a young man with a story to tell you. He's 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.440 a guy with a good job, proper person, not a lunatic, 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.920 not an armchair detective. Wasn't full of theories. He just 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.880 had one story to tell me. He said. Look, I'm 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.160 a close friend of a particular young fellow and his father, 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.360 whom he hates, was a doctor in the Dandy Knongs 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.560 back in the eighties and nineties. And his father was 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.280 very popular, very well known. He was sporty, he was 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.839 good looking, he was king of the kids. He drove 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.200 good cars, and he played tennis, and he had a 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.240 holiday house down the coast, and he was big house 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.040 on the hill. The whole shebang very high in the 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.400 list of socially desirable people living in the Dandy Knongs, 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.040 you know, the top of the social tree among his 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:35.720 friends would be I think the former Senator Don Chip 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.200 and his wife, among others up in the hills, and 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.560 there was a pretty big group of those sort of people, 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.200 and he said, what I want to tell you is 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.880 that that man was a monster. He looked great and 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.280 he was popular, but people became aware that he was 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.280 a sexual predator. And he wasn't just a sexual predator. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.840 He was a really aggressive pedophile, among other things, to 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:06.800 young girls, bigger girls, teenage girls, and women of all ages, 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.960 just the full Monty. And it got that way that 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:14.040 even though he was sort of a popular GP, some 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.360 people didn't want to go to him. Some women didn't 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.040 want to go to his surgery, certainly, not unless they 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.680 had a friend with them or whatever. And he got 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.760 known as sort of the dirty doctor. And eventually it 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:32.240 transpired that several witnesses got together and compared notes, and 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.720 they realized that this bloke was a serial predator. And 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.840 it turned out sexually molested females between the age of 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:44.760 four and twenty nine at six different locations, four places 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.400 up there on the Dandy Knongs and his own house 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.160 and his own holiday house which is down the coast. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:57.160 And although he was convicted, I think only of one 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.480 of those The allegations were made by a series of 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:07.280 witnesses the similar fact behavior covering many people. The conviction 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.080 he got was enough that he was struck off the 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.240 medical register he could no longer practice as a doctor. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.160 This is in the late nineties when he was around 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.920 fifty years of age, and that doctor having moved from 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.480 the Danny Knongs when in disgrace to Saint Kilda, where 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.000 he was able to work for a while as a 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:29.320 doctor before he was actually convicted. He then moved into state. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.920 He went to a border town. Let's say he went 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.960 to a border town. And some time ago I went 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.800 to that border town. It might have been I think 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.360 since the COVID pandemic. I went to the border town 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.040 and I watched that man, and I watched him Walky's dog, 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.280 and I made sure that locals knew exactly who he was, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.320 which they did. They knew very well who he was, 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.680 and they knew his reputation. And they keep a very 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.720 close eye on that man because he lives between a 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:04.400 scape park and a primary school, and everybody in that district, 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.399 the parents and the grandparents, they keep an eye on 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.400 that guy. So he's probably not going to get up 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.400 to much, although some people worry about the little kids 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:22.120 next door. That man, as we've said, was a doctor 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:27.200 in the Dandy Knongs. It turns out, as we've just discovered, 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.040 that if you look at the birth notices published in 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:35.199 the newspapers from early nineteen eighty three, there is a 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:39.880 birth notice that says that doctor Bradkey, that is Margaret's 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:45.200 dead lover, well known popular doctor doctor John Bradkey and 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.119 doctor X. We're not going to name him here, Doctor 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:53.960 bradkn Doctor X brought our beautiful daughter into the world, 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:58.639 you know, last week, baby girl born December the twenty 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:03.960 ninth of two or around that date, and the birth 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:09.200 notice names those two doctors together. Now this is proof 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:16.000 positive that doctor Bradkey, who is Margaret's lover, the one 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.040 that she really wanted, the lover that she really loved, 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.639 and she was broken hearted when he wouldn't leave his 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.280 wife and marry her and all that stuff. He was 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.919 a lover that bought her a house at Frontrick Gully, 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:31.800 So they were pretty well connected. Doctor Bradkey used to 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:38.080 deliver babies side by side with doctor X, the charming, 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:45.280 dashing sexual predator, and so it is clear listeners that 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:51.520 doctor X the sexual predator must have known, must surely 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.600 have known Margaret Tap because they delivered babies in the 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.800 William Anglis Hospital, in the Dandy Kongs at wherever it is, 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:04.240 fern Trick Gally or up whatever it is. And Doctor 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.760 X used to play tennis, as we've heard, he not 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.680 only had a court at home, he used to play 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.880 at the local courts. Very keen on it. Social tennis player, 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.199 pretty good one. And he used to play tennis with 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.919 a group of other alpha males, one of whom was 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.280 a builder well known to me, a bloke who played 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:28.600 one game of VFL football interestingly. And they played in 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.880 a sort of a social comp at Fernie Creek Tennis 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.679 Club and Fernie Creek Tennis Club in those days, i'm told, 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.760 had onto car courts, that is the red sort of 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.359 brick dust stuff onto garrett as opposed to tarmac or 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.640 as opposed to lawn. This is onto cart and easily 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.359 maintained and all the rest of it. And in those 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.520 days most of us used to wear things called dunlop 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.520 folly tennis shoes. If we didn't use them to play tennis, 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:59.520 we used to wear them around with our jeans. They 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.320 were a cheap and popular item of footwear, and they 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:07.680 had a very distinctive ripple soul which was like a 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.000 zig zag pattern on the soul. I think these days 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.560 they be regarded as prehistoric and ridiculous, but in those 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:18.200 days they were sort of good snakers to wear, and 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.320 tennis players is to wear them. And here's the bit 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:27.040 that matters. The one clue found at the murder house 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:34.280 at thirteen Calvin Drive, Ferntry Gully was a perfect footprint 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:41.520 or footprints plural in Margaret's bedroom and in the bathroom 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:47.679 Dunlop volley tennis shoe and it would appear to have 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:52.000 left the marks on the floor because the Dunlop volley 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:57.040 was impregnated with red onto car brick dust and it 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:02.600 had left these excellent foot in the murder house. Now, 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:10.479 that does not prove by itself that Doctor X was 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:15.439 the unknown visitor, but there is no doubt in the 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.080 minds of the police, and you have to agree with 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:21.560 them that if you find the person that was wearing 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:26.760 the volley Sanchez in that house that night that left 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:33.520 those footprints, you have probably found the killer. Doctor X. 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:38.200 Keen tennis player size eleven feet which would seem to 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:41.200 tell you with the man sized prince left in the house, 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:51.200 and he was a aggressive, opportunist, sexual predator. He played 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:55.680 tennis on Tuesday nights at Fernie Creek, which is a 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:59.760 quick drive fifteen minutes or whatever from Ferntry Gully Easy. 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.760 He plays tennis between you know, nine and ten whatever 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:08.200 evening stuff after work, then whips down to see Margaret, 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:14.280 whom he knew as the extremely friendly nurse ex lover 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:20.160 of his dead colleague Dr Bradke. And one thing might 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:23.399 have led to another. And so while we cannot say 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:28.080 with any certainty who killed Margaret Tappan her daughter Shawna, 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:35.200 he could only hope that doctor X has been eliminated 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:41.320 through the use of DNA and any other means at 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:46.520 the police's disposal, because if he hasn't, it would seem 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:54.520 to be a glaring oversight. 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