{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/692e431c1fc8491a7b9a3769/6ab2836c39b4f1b2964a6654?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"30: Who helped Ivan Milat? | 60+ Unsolved Murders","description":"<p>Ivan Milat was convicted of seven murders and died in a prison hospital bed in 2019, still insisting he didn&#39;t do it. Almost nobody in Australia believes him. But a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into unsolved murders and missing persons is now asking a different, more uncomfortable question: were seven enough?</p><p><br></p><p>This week, Rich and Nick dig into the growing list of cold cases with Milat&#39;s name attached to them - from a stabbing on a beach when he was 22, to a body found after he was already behind bars - and sit down with a former NSW detective pushing for a coercive-powers commission to finally crack them.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>The near-miss problem: Englishman Paul Onions, a gun, a rope, a highway shootout - and the report to police that went nowhere until bodies started turning up in a state forest</li><li>The Wanda Beach problem: a 1965 double murder, a police artist&#39;s sketch, a photo of a 22-year-old Milat shown to the sitting Premier, and a resemblance nobody can quite explain away</li><li>The ballistics problem: an 18-year-old hitchhiker, a Ruger 10/22 rifle, and free bullets that matched a gun already tied to two of Milat&#39;s known victims — with no charge ever laid</li><li>The timeline problem: a 16-year-old&#39;s murder in the Hunter Valley that happened after Milat&#39;s arrest, and what that does to the theory that he always worked alone</li><li>The institutional problem: a 12-day turnaround letter from the NSW Homicide Squad, a cold case process that reviews old files instead of starting fresh, and why the families still waiting call it a desktop exercise</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Some of this is forensic - ballistics, timelines, photographs held up side by side. Some of it is just the arithmetic of a man who was, by his own family&#39;s account, capable of far worse than what he was ever tried for, working alone in a state forest for the better part of two decades before one man got away.</p><p><br></p><p>Contact the show at <a href=\"mailto:conspiracycabal@outlook.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">conspiracycabal@outlook.com</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>The Conspiracy Cabal doesn&#39;t promote conspiracy theories — we examine them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies start, why they persist, and what drives people to believe them.</p>","author_name":"Southern Ocean Media"}