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Speaker 1: It's a special Will and Woody podcast Mini.

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Speaker 2: We are talking about the case which has really captivated

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Speaker 2: a nation. William Tyrell went missing seven years ago twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Last scene it is foster grandmother's house. Nobody's been charged

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Speaker 2: since then over the disappearance and suspective death of William.

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Speaker 2: But there has been some new evidence that's come to light,

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Speaker 2: or certainly just new little tiny pockets of information that

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Speaker 2: are starting to surface in and around this case. And

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Speaker 2: given that I can't put the right words on it,

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Speaker 2: We've got an expert for it, Leah Harris, who joins

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Speaker 2: us right now from Network ten podcast Where's William Tyrell,

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Speaker 2: which has been operating since twenty nineteen. Leah, Welcome to

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Speaker 2: the show. Absolute pleasure to have you on. Are we

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Speaker 2: about to see a breakthrough in the William Tyrell case?

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Speaker 3: Look, that's what everyone hopes. We hope that every time

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Speaker 3: they do one of these widespread searches, and they have

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Speaker 3: done a lot of searches over the past seven years.

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Speaker 3: The difference with this one is they do seem to

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Speaker 3: be a lot more confident that they have information that

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Speaker 3: is very specific that's led them to these three specific

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Speaker 3: sites that they're looking at, so we hope that there's

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Speaker 3: a breakthrough. So far it doesn't seem that there has been,

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Speaker 3: but it is still very much an ongoing operation.

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Speaker 1: So Leah, if you can be specific here, and I

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Speaker 1: appreciate we need to tread carefully because this is an

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Speaker 1: ongoing case. What has happened in the last week or

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Speaker 1: two weeks for them to be that now these three

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Speaker 1: sites that they think may reveal some more information.

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Speaker 3: So the police has publicly said they've got some new

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Speaker 3: information that they're acting on. And as someone who's worked

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Speaker 3: on it, you know from day one. The first indication

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Speaker 3: for me that there was a new direction and a

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Speaker 3: new theory came a couple of weeks ago when we

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Speaker 3: were issued with a subpoena from the Coroner's court for

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Speaker 3: all our information and research on podcast Wow and whatever

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Speaker 3: theory they're working on now, And they do say they're

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Speaker 3: focusing on one suspect. That same theory has led them

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Speaker 3: to also doing this new search.

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Speaker 2: Right said started doing this podcast two years ago, so

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, so he'd been missing for five years up

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Speaker 2: till then. Why did you start doing the Where's William Tyrrell? Podcast?

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Speaker 2: For a lot of people. I mean, the first podcast

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Speaker 2: I really ever heard was Cereal, which is Sarah Kenny's

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Speaker 2: look into what she thought was the wrong for rest

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Speaker 2: of this guy over in the US and then that

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Speaker 2: led to a retrial for him. Is that has that

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Speaker 2: been your goal in doing this?

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Speaker 3: So? I suppose the catalyst for the podcast was really

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Speaker 3: the fact that the police investigation was getting to a

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Speaker 3: point where they were going to a coronial in quest.

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Speaker 3: And the difference with the corona in quest means that

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Speaker 3: you actually get to hear all the evidence they've gathered,

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Speaker 3: and they need to put all the evidence before a

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Speaker 3: coroner to say, look, this is what we think might

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Speaker 3: have happened. What do you think. That's the point that

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Speaker 3: they reached, and that was the point that I felt

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Speaker 3: was the time to tell the story through all podcasts

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Speaker 3: over time, that the foster parents felt was time for

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Speaker 3: them to speak out, which they are notoriously private people.

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Speaker 3: They hadn't spoken out much at all before, but that

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Speaker 3: was the first extensive interview they did, and that was

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Speaker 2: All right, well, I want to talk a little bit

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Speaker 2: more about the form of foster parents. I was going

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Speaker 2: to go to a song really quickly. But if this

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Speaker 2: this the latest update in this whole case, as you said,

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Speaker 2: notoriously private. Now these these are unlinked. I need to

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Speaker 2: stress that. But William Tyrrell's former foster parents have been

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Speaker 2: charged with assault, alleged assault, and that again that does

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Speaker 2: not relate to William at all. Leah and I can

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Speaker 2: hear you. You've got a billion things to say about that.

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Speaker 2: Can we talk about it more? Up next?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely?

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Speaker 2: Okay, great, We've got more with Leah Harris from Network

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Speaker 2: ten's podcast Where's William Tilly? If you're not across it

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Speaker 2: sounds like great listening. I mean you're listening to Willan

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Speaker 2: Moody right now, so obviously you know get it after

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Speaker 2: around it after. We've got more with Lea. Right up

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Speaker 2: next to willimodiy, we've got Leah Harris from a Network ten.

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Speaker 2: She's got a podcast Where's William Tyrrel, which is obviously

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Speaker 2: about the little boy who went missing seven years ago

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Speaker 2: twenty fourteen. New evidence coming to light, though most recently

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Speaker 2: a child unrelated to William. Can we talk about that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So, as you said, the important thing to stress

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Speaker 3: is that this is separate from the investigation into what

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Speaker 3: happened to William Tyrell. This is a separate case that's

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Speaker 3: happened recently. They have been charged with the assault of

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Speaker 2: What do we know about this?

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Speaker 3: Likely?

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Speaker 2: Are you allowed to spill anything about this? I mean,

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Speaker 2: and again we can't speculate unfortunately, but is that what

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Speaker 2: of another child got the police spiking their interest in

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Speaker 3: All we know at this stage is that the strike

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Speaker 3: force that has charged the foster parents with these latest

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Speaker 3: same strike cource that is investigating. But that's that's all

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Speaker 3: we know of how much it's informed the investigation.

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Speaker 1: Get that lea why the involvement or why the focus

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Speaker 1: on William's foster grandmother obviously, so I appreciate that his

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Speaker 1: foster parents are now being charged with the separate assault,

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Speaker 1: But the grandmother, why, why are they looking into her again?

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Speaker 3: So the foster grandmother's house is where he went missing.

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Speaker 3: They were visiting her at the time that he went missing,

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Speaker 3: And they were visiting the foster grandmother and her car

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Speaker 3: was the car they seves last week to forensic examine.

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Speaker 3: She passed away in March. She was obviously present at

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Speaker 2: As it stands, you've got all the facts, You've been

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Speaker 2: running this podcast for two years. Now, where's William Tyrell?

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Speaker 2: What's your working theory with how he went missing?

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Speaker 3: It's hard for me to speculate on that as a journalist.

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Speaker 3: What I can say is that having been to where

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Speaker 3: It has always baffled me no matter what happened, as

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Speaker 2: So what's the next step. Do you think we are close?

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Speaker 2: Do you think we're any close at the end, and

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Speaker 2: if so, what does that look like. Do you think

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Speaker 2: the police.

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Speaker 3: Seemed confident that they were going to find something. They

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Speaker 3: So with every day that goes by, I suspect that

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Speaker 3: for three weeks, so you know it could be any

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Speaker 3: day that they do find something. And that's what everyone wants.

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Speaker 3: Everyone just wants them to find something to finally put

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Speaker 1: Right, and we've obviously got the court case of his

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Speaker 1: foster parents been charged with a separate assault as well,

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Speaker 1: so maybe we can get your back after the findings

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Speaker 1: of that court case, which is next week.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we'll obviously we'll be watching that closely.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the pleasure to talk to you, obviously, anyone listening

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Speaker 2: to this, if you know anything about this, obviously reach

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Speaker 2: out to the police and let them know if you

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Speaker 2: know anything. That would be the ultimate goal here is

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Speaker 2: that our conversation is spurred a memory in you or

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Speaker 2: even giving you the confidence to talk about a little

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Speaker 2: bit more, because at the end of the day we

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Speaker 2: which is just tragic. Really abolutely, thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for joining us. It's been a pleasure to talk to you, mate.

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Speaker 3: Thanks guys.

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Speaker 2: Hear more of the boys on the Full Show podcast.

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Speaker 3: You know you want to