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Speaker 1: All police have increased the reward to half a million

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Speaker 1: dollars to find the remains of Peter Falconio. With his

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Speaker 1: killer close to death, the British backpacker shot dead in

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Speaker 1: a remote part of the Northern Territory in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and one. His murderer, Bradley John Murdoch, has been moved

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Speaker 1: to palliative care with terminal cancer. And I must say

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Speaker 1: I've got a bit of an interest. Well, who doesn't

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Speaker 1: have an interest in this story? But I was at

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Speaker 1: the court, the Adelaide District Court where Murdoch was arrested

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Speaker 1: in Adelaide and charged with the murder of Falconio all

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Speaker 1: those years ago. Hannah Ford from seven years is following

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Speaker 1: this story. In fact, she's in Alice Springs, Hannah, good

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Speaker 1: evening to you.

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Speaker 2: Good evening.

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Speaker 1: So he's been I couldn't believe this one. I heard yesterday.

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Speaker 1: He's been let out of prison to go and say

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Speaker 1: goodbye to mates and all sorts of things up there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct. We've learned that he's been moved from

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Speaker 2: jail where he's spent twenty years for the murder of

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Speaker 2: Peter Falconio and moved into a pallative care facility in

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Speaker 2: Alice Springs. It seems he's getting a little bit of

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Speaker 2: special treatment. He's allowed out on supervised day trips as

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Speaker 2: far as we know, so a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: different sort of treatment for a killer, a man who

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Speaker 2: was serving twenty eight years in jail for the murder

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Speaker 2: of Peter Falconio. I'm sure you were shocked to hear

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Speaker 2: this as well. We understand that he only has a

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Speaker 2: matter of days to live after battling throat cancer. He

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Speaker 2: was diagnosed with that in twenty nineteen after being sentenced

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Speaker 2: or convicted of this murder back in two thousand and five.

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Speaker 2: And it was a crime that really gripped not only

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Speaker 2: Australia but the world. I know that you have you

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Speaker 2: definitely had a close proximity to it all unfolding, and

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Speaker 2: it was media all over the world that were interested

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Speaker 2: because there were these two young backpackers on, you know,

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Speaker 2: a trip of a lifetime to the center of Australia

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Speaker 2: and it's just turned into a nightmare. Everyone was in

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Speaker 2: disbelief that this could happen.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely now I heard police say today, Hannah, with the

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Speaker 1: reward being increased, that it's likely there are people who

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Speaker 1: know where Falconio has been buried, and that implies that

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Speaker 1: Murdoch has told people.

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Speaker 2: Yes in the press conference today, which I have to

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Speaker 2: say came out of nowhere, plenty of media have been

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Speaker 2: making sort of inquiries with them. Are you commenting on

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Speaker 2: the fact that he's you know, he's on death door.

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Speaker 2: Are you going to push him for a confession? And

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Speaker 2: then today out of nowhere, they made this announcement saying

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Speaker 2: that they were upping it to half a million dollars,

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Speaker 2: saying that they believe he must have confined in someone.

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Speaker 2: He must have confided in someone. He's obviously never revealed

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Speaker 2: where his body has been. This is a secret that

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Speaker 2: no one wants him to take his grave, especially not

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Speaker 2: the parents of Peter Falconio, his family, who desperately want

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Speaker 2: closure for this Ajoeing Joanne Lee has been the center

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Speaker 2: at the center of this case.

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Speaker 1: Just amazing, isn't It's gone for twenty four years now

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Speaker 1: when this first occurred, and Peter Falconio resting somewhere out

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Speaker 1: there in the middle of nowhere, in the outback of

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Speaker 1: Australia and the center of the country, and of course

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Speaker 1: too big an area no one knows where he could be.

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Speaker 1: It could be within one hundred kilometers of where it occurred,

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Speaker 1: but it just unreal. So hopefully there will be closure.

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Speaker 1: Is there any chance Murdoch might reveal where Falconio is

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Speaker 1: before he dies?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I have to say I've spoken to a lot

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Speaker 2: of people today and I've got a real insight into

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Speaker 2: Bradley Murdock in the type of person he is in

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Speaker 2: terms of different people who have met him. The arresting

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Speaker 2: officer I've spoken to today, she says he was pretty manipulative, polite, pleasant,

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Speaker 2: even thanking her for certain things, even though she arrested

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Speaker 2: him and was the investigating officer who eventually made sure

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Speaker 2: he was convicted. That he's polite and nice. I've spoke

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Speaker 2: to a prison guard who saw him almost every day

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Speaker 2: for thirteen years and says he was charismatic, lovely, protested

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Speaker 2: his innocence still and he believes him. She the investigating officer,

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Speaker 2: says he will never He will never give it up.

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Speaker 2: If he knows, he will keep this secret to his grave,

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Speaker 2: which is so incredibly devastating that so hopefully there's someone

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Speaker 2: else that he's confided in if he won't give it up. Hopefully,

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Speaker 2: if someone else knows something and sees this today and

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Speaker 2: comes forward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, well look how familiar dollar reward. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: that encourages someone to come forward. What an absolute shame

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Speaker 1: that Murdock is going to take this to his grave

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Speaker 1: and certainly doesn't deserve the special treatment he's had of late.

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Speaker 1: It should be dying in jail and completely forgotten about.

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Speaker 1: But Hannah, thank you for your time. We will see

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Speaker 1: your report on seven over the next few days. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you're up there for a little while.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we'll be here for a while and we'll be reporting, yes,

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Speaker 2: every day.

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Speaker 1: All right, good on your Hannah, thank you, thanks for

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Speaker 1: your time. Hannah Ford. Seven News here in Adelaide, covering

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Speaker 1: the well the soon likely death of Bradley Murdoch, the

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Speaker 1: man convicted for the murder of Peter Falconio back in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and one in the lonely cold outback where

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Speaker 1: Peter Falconio has been lying for all those years. Quarter

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Speaker 1: of a century. Almost donereal