Outback Murder Highway: Triple Murder At Spear Creek
4/29/202624 min
In October 1978 three bodies are found at Spear Creek in remote outback Queensland - each has a single rifle shot to the head. Decades later a prime suspect is ruled out but did witnesses identify another man?
In this special episode for Outback Murder Highway, Tim and Xanthe are joined again by investigative journalist Amelia Oberhardt to unpack the documentary investigation into the unsolved murders of Karen Edwards, Tim Thomson and Gordon Twaddle.
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First 90 secondsAmelia Oberhardt· Guest0:00
[tense music] 11 people murdered or missing on one 900-kilometer stretch of road. This is Australia's biggest cluster of unsolved murders. I'm Amelia Robehart, and I'm an investigative journalist from Queensland.
Tim Watson-Munro· Host0:25
I'm criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro.
Xanthe Mallett· Host0:28
And I'm forensic criminologist Dr. Xanthe Weston. Welcome to this Motive & Method special series for Outback Murder Highway.
Tim Watson-Munro· Host0:36
Welcome back to this special series of Motive & Method. We're back in the studio with investigative journalist Amelia Robehart.
Amelia Oberhardt· Guest0:48
Welcome. Thanks for having me again, team.
Xanthe Mallett· Host0:51
Great to have you back. So setting the scene, we're back on the Flinders Highway, right? Episode two, Outback Murder Highway, and this is looking into the shocking murders of three people in a place called Spear Creek, and we're now in 1978.
Amelia Oberhardt· Guest1:08
We are. So it's just six years after the murders, or alleged murder, of Robin and Anita Cunningham, which occurred in the town of Pentland on the Flinders Highway. Uh, this is in a more desolate place, if that's possible, on the Flinders Highway, where it nearly meets the Barkley Highway, and it's a place called Mount Isa. Um, so this takes the story of Karen Edwards, Tim Thompson,