The monsterous teacher and the very brave boy
5/22/202644 min
WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. When a string of children went missing from Adelaide's quiet suburban streets, police were stumped. It took some quick thinking from a frightened child to bring the murderer to justice.
Author Michael Madigan joins the show with more.
More about his books at: https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/author/B01FDHICS6
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First 90 secondsAndrew Rule· Host0:00
[pensive music] A 10-year-old girl, Louise Bell, vanishes from the bedroom she shares with her younger sister, would you believe, next door to her parents' bedroom in a small-ish suburban house.
Michael Madigan· Guest0:13
He said, "Tell police to go to the corner of South Road and, and Doctors Road."
Andrew Rule· Host0:19
Yep.
Michael Madigan· Guest0:19
"Under a brick, you'll find Louise's earrings." And the police did that, and yes, the earrings were Louise's.
Andrew Rule· Host0:26
Oh, my God, how sinister. I'm Andrew Rule. This is Life & Crime. Today we have another guest from interstate. His name is Michael Madigan. He's a man of many parts. A- apart from writing some very sharply put together and carefully collated crime books, true crime books, he has also worked in other areas, I think in a museum, in a retail position, and also he does some gardening. So he's a man who's got his finger in several pies, but I have to say that I was very impressed, or I am very impressed, with his latest work, which is called Father, Teacher, Child Killer, and the subtitle is The Abduction of Louise Bell and Michael Black. Now, these stories are very well known in Adelaide and in South Australia. They're not as well known over here in Melbourne, Victoria, and yet probably should be, because