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Speaker 1: It's conceivable that Bunk Syra Boom is a victim of

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Speaker 1: I have no knowledge of such a thing happening to her.

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Speaker 1: But it is conceivable that she was snatched not by

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Speaker 3: It is interesting that we're talking about mister Crawl, but

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Speaker 3: both of those cases, the cases lived on in people's

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Speaker 1: They do some grasp the public imagination in ways, and

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Speaker 1: It's like an earworm. Easy Street has always been in

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Speaker 1: Street is easy to remember. It's a catchy phrase. It

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Speaker 3: Another question about mister Crawl comes from Carly Thanks Carly.

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Speaker 3: Carly says that when she was growing up that her

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Speaker 3: neighbor was apparently a suspect. Her dad was given this

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Speaker 3: information by a police officer after reporting a series of

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Speaker 3: bizarre breakings at their home in Smith's Gully to the

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 1: On the outer edge of what we would call mister

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Speaker 1: reasons to look at Elham. But of course when police

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Speaker 1: who they're looking for. Any weird crime to do with

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Speaker 1: naturally wonder if it's to do with mister Krule. Both

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Speaker 1: they're all going to think about it. They can't all

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Speaker 1: It raises the fever pitch speculation about any offender in

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Speaker 1: think at this distance that whoever mister Krule was has

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Speaker 1: so we can hope, or ended up in jail on

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Speaker 3: And lastly, a non mister Crule question. And this is

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Speaker 3: a request from Jesse, please make an episode on and

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Speaker 3: you will have heard of Beep there listeners, because we

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Speaker 3: can't use that person's name. We still can't. We still can't,

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Speaker 3: they say, or Jesse says that Ivan Mulatt is so

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Speaker 3: well known but did very little compared to Beep.

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Speaker 1: Beep is a fascinating case. Beep has been written about

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Speaker 1: at length by a colleague of ours in Queensland, Matthew Condon,

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Speaker 1: and he's written a lot of interesting books about goings

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Speaker 3: And to be fair, Jesse, we actually have recorded an

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Speaker 3: episode about Deep, about Deep, and we are just waiting

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Speaker 3: for Beep to either get through beeps of various legal

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Speaker 3: travails or preferably die and then as soon as that happens, Jesse.

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Speaker 1: We'll go full Monty. In fact, we ought to try

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Speaker 1: and get Matthew Condon on to talk about it, or

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Speaker 1: someone else from up there who can talk with authority

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Speaker 1: about him, because I do know I know an old

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Speaker 1: scallywagg and old bird smuggler that could talk about Beep

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Speaker 1: was used by other crooks. I mean he killed people

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Speaker 1: criminal serial killer, if that makes sense. He's both a

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Speaker 1: He's a very bad man and very twisted. And there

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Speaker 1: are those who suspect was the last to see alive

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Speaker 3: Well, Jesse, that's a watch this space because when we

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Speaker 3: can we will thank you very much for everyone who

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Speaker 3: has put in their questions. If you have questions, please

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Speaker 3: send them in. They don't necessarily all have to be

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Speaker 3: about mister Crawl. Either send them into Life and Crimes

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