The Great Bookie Robbery: Part 2 - Crime Bizarre
5/13/202630 min
Titus and Mick return for Part 2 of the unbelievable story behind Melbourne’s Great Bookie Robbery and the bloody gangland war that followed. From the murders of Les and Brian Kane to the killings that paved the way for the infamous Melbourne gangland era, they trace how one robbery triggered decades of violence, revenge and underworld power struggles.
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First 90 secondsTitus O'Reily· Host0:00
Hello, everyone. Titus O'Reilly here. Before we get started, just wanna remind you about Bizarre Plus. That's our subscriber membership program. If you join, you get access to an extra bonus episode every week, and there's over 100 in the archive of that already. Uh, some series we give in advance through that, and if you wanna become a member, the link is in the show notes.
Speaker 10:21
[upbeat music] It's time to head back to the home of all things bizarre.
Mick Molloy· Host0:26
Get the whiteboard out.
Titus O'Reily· Host0:27
It's a wild ride.
Mick Molloy· Host0:28
Don't panic. It's bonkers.
Speaker 10:29
Where we shine a light on loopy, shonky, and plain outrageous behavior from around the globe.
Titus O'Reily· Host0:34
It's gonna alarm you how the world operates.
Mick Molloy· Host0:36
All right, here we go.
Titus O'Reily· Host0:37
A lot of skullduggery.
Speaker 10:38
It's Bizarre.
Mick Molloy· Host0:39
Buckle up.
Titus O'Reily· Host0:40
We're gonna dive in.
Mick Molloy· Host0:41
What could go wrong?
Speaker 10:42
With Mick Malloy and Titus O'Reilly.
Mick Molloy· Host0:44
Hello, everybody, and welcome to the latest installment of Crime Bizarre. You gotta keep your eye on us.
Titus O'Reily· Host0:52
Yeah.
Mick Molloy· Host0:53
We are up to no good. [laughs] We'll do anything these days. Crime Bizarre's a beauty.
Titus O'Reily· Host0:58
Yes.
Mick Molloy· Host0:59
We are smack bang in the, the middle of The Great Bookie Robbery. One of the great- We've also done a couple of Crime Bizarres for the Bizarre Plus members.
Titus O'Reily· Host1:06
So if anyone listening isn't a Bizarre Plus member, you can get extra- Ugh ... episodes on, uh, that. We'll put the link in the show notes.
Mick Molloy· Host1:14
Sure.
Titus O'Reily· Host1:14
We'd love to have them on board.
Mick Molloy· Host1:16
Yeah.
Titus O'Reily· Host1:16
We love our Bizarros, so if you're not one already- Get on board ... get on board. Extra, well, over 100 extra episodes there.
Mick Molloy· Host1:21
Treated like a king or queen.
Titus O'Reily· Host1:22
Absolutely. [laughs] And- You get fascinating insights ... so we're back to finish off The Great Bookie Robbery, where we got to- Uh, where are