Unsolved The Disappearance of Mum Bronwyn Winfield - NSW * Hedley Thomas podcast

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Harvey Norman sponsors the podcasts. His previous podcasts have had impressive results, especially the Chris Dawson case. And the Shandee Blackburn case is ongoing. He brings to light cases that police and relatives of victims have given up on. People start talking, and remembering. The Australian may pay HT for exclusivity but why not? More publicity for getting the cases attention. If it wasn't the Australian, it would be another paper, probably.
 

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BFew said:
You're probably dreaming if you think that many key witnesses currently talking to, and providing evidence/allegations to the Murdoch media, are going to want to talk to and/or provide evidence/allegations to multiple media outlets on the same crime cases.
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They’re talking to Hedley Thomas, after the police gave up. When and if there’s a case to be made the police will be in a position to refer the matter to higher authorities. They are investigating but so far there’s a lot of hearsay rather than hard evidence. Finding the body would be necessary.

It’s like the Samantha Murphy case, the police are not disclosing anything even though they have a suspect. Again, finding the body is vital to the case.

Thomas made the deal with the Oz. He has a copyright to his podcast I imagine. Maybe he should have made it freely available to all news outlets. Maybe others weren’t interested.
 
Dogs_R_Us said:
They’re talking to Hedley Thomas, after the police gave up. When and if there’s a case to be made the police will be in a position to refer the matter to higher authorities. They are investigating but so far there’s a lot of hearsay rather than hard evidence. Finding the body would be necessary.

It’s like the Samantha Murphy case, the police are not disclosing anything even though they have a suspect. Again, finding the body is vital to the case.

Thomas made the deal with the Oz. He has a copyright to his podcast I imagine. Maybe he should have made it freely available to all news outlets. Maybe others weren’t interested.
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Hedley Thomas from what I can see has been working at the Australian since about 2006 as a reporter and then Chief National Correspondent. With The Teacher's Pet he would author/co-author articles with David Murray to coincide with the podcast so I don't believe he made a deal as such with the Oz. Since that time he isn't necessarily writing the articles associated with the podcast. Initially with The Teachers Pet, the articles were available without a paywall. Probably at the trial stage the articles were subject to Pay Wall. Even if the Australian isn't making money out of the podcast they may have increased newspaper sales digital or paper.

Before working for the Australian, he was working for the Courier Mail, where he attended the Inquest for Lynette Simms and wrote the initial article that was the case he had to go back to.
 
I know Hedley's podcast are meant to evoke emotions, but I could help being annoyed during his first police interview when he repeatedly mentioned what Graeme Diskin had told him. Lots of details in some memories, total lack of recall in others.
 

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Dogs_R_Us said:
This might be the last we hear, unless the police decide to dig up the slab :(

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Might be a whole lot cheaper (including the cost of fair compensation to the building owners/residents), than charging, prosecuting, and a criminal murder trial without a body.

Even if someone pleads guilty to the disappearance/murder, without the body, digging up that slab is possibly in both the public interest and the interests of Justice.

Whether the slab can be dug up under specific circumstances that would likely apply to this case, if the current owners don't want it to be dug up, no matter how much they are compensated, is a seperate but all important question.

In any case, if a prosecution and trial was to go ahead, and as a result, the exact location of the block was to become public, the value of the property might take a bit of a hit, and the current/future owners and/or residents be forever spooked about possibly living on a slab under which a young women might have been murdered.
 
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