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Speaker 1: His name was Stuart John Reagan, Stuart John Reagan, Jeword

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Speaker 1: John Reagan, Johnny Reagan. In his teens, Johnny Reagan was

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Speaker 1: already a violent pimp and standover man. He was one

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Speaker 1: of the worst human bodes that ever walked the Straight

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Speaker 1: to Sydney. By his twenties, he had a reputation as

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Speaker 1: a psychopathic killer. You're ever looking for a psychopath, Reagan

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Speaker 1: ticks all the boxes.

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Speaker 2: Exactly fifty years ago, Reagan was slain by at least

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Speaker 2: three assassins in the streets of suburban Sydney.

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Speaker 1: His murder remains an unsolved cold case. He still considered

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Speaker 1: Australia's last true old style gangster. You can control a

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Speaker 1: bad man, but you can't control I madly, but few

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Speaker 1: details are known about this short and dramatic life until now.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matthew Condon, a true crime writer and journalist with

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Speaker 1: The Australian. This is the Gangster's Ghost and in this

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Speaker 1: podcast you'll meet relatives of Reagan who will speak for

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Speaker 1: the first time in over half a century, and you

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Speaker 1: will actually hear Reagan's voice from the grave. You mark

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Speaker 1: my words, I'm not playing your line. I'll give it

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Speaker 1: your idea to tell them if you want to go

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Speaker 1: through with them. If not, well you know. For decades

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Speaker 1: ours have previously unheard real to real tape recordings made

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Speaker 1: by Johnny Reagan himself have only now surfaced. Come with

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Speaker 1: us and the ghost of one of this country's most

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Speaker 1: infamous outlaws on a journey into one family's dark past.

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Speaker 1: If you thought every clan had a black sheep, wait

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Speaker 1: until you meet the Reagans.

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Speaker 3: Gangster's Ghost is a podcast from the Australian. Listen to

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Speaker 3: the first two episodes now at gangsters Ghost dot com

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Speaker 3: dot a.

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Speaker 1: You