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Bloodguilt

By: Dan Box, Kate Wild
Narrated by: Dan Box, Kate Wild
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Please note: this podcast includes discussion of mature themes including suicide and murder. Listener discretion is advised.

First Australians should also know that this podcast includes the names and stories of people who have died.

Days after Richard Dorrough violently takes his own life at a public gun range in Perth, Western Australia, his fiancée receives a parcel from him in the post - a book filled with the former sailor’s handwriting. She starts to read and, horrified by the chilling confession inside it, quickly hands the book to police....

Suicides rarely get reported. But reporters Dan Box and Kate Wild believe this unnerving public death is worthy of further explanation. Exploring what made Dorrough take his life leads the pair to the country’s far corners, to uneasy truths about race and prejudice in the criminal justice system and to questions about how we tell true crime stories.

In the process they start to understand that Dorrough took much more than just his own life.

Dan Box

Dan Box is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author. He has previously worked for The Australian, the BBC and London’s The Sunday Times. He has won awards in both the UK and Australia, including for investigative reporting, feature writing and true crime writing. He is the writer and presenter of the Bowraville podcast series and The Queen & Zak Grieve documentary series, both of which have also won major awards.

Kate Wild

Kate has spent most of her working life as a researcher and producer in television, almost always for the ABC and SBS in documentaries, comedy and current affairs. The biggest stories she has worked on are Who Killed Mr Ward and Code of Silence, for Four Corners, both of which won Walkleys, a Logie and NSW and Victorian Premier's Awards for journalism.

Written by: Dan Box

Presented by Dan Box and Kate Wild

Audio Producer: Selena Shannon

Producer: Ivan O'Mahoney

Produced by In Films in association with Audiocraft.

This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members.

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Episodes
  • Ep 1: Confession

    Ep 1: Confession
    Jun 26 2022

    Dorrough is being interviewed by police in Western Australia, who warn him: 'Anything you say or do will be electronically recorded and may later be used as evidence.' Dorrough doesn't answer, so what is he hiding? Soon after, Dorrough sought salvation by joining the Jehovah's Witnesses. What is the connection between these events and his subsequent decision to take his own life?
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    31 mins
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  • Ep 2: Sara-Lee

    Ep 2: Sara-Lee
    Jun 26 2022

    Following his suicide, Dorrough leaves a confession to the murder of three people, but doesn't name them. In a remote community on the Dampier Peninsula, Kate meets Indigenous elder Irene Davey, whose daughter Sara-Lee went missing in Broome on January 14, 1997. That same night, Dorrough is also in Broome, his Navy ship is moored at the jetty. After a night out, he tries bringing Sara-Lee back to his ship. She is never seen again.
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    35 mins
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  • Ep 3: Rachael

    Ep 3: Rachael
    Jun 26 2022

    In Sydney, the body of Rachael Campbell is discovered, lying in a church carpark. The young Maori woman had migrated to Australia from New Zealand as child and had fallen into addiction before being murdered. At the time, Dorrough is in Sydney. His Kombi van is parked near where Rachael’s body is found, but no one is arrested over the killing. Soon after, Dorrough moves to Queensland.
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    32 mins
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Epic! very well put together

I'm a Perth Native and do recall this man ending himself at the shooting gallery (the next suburb from me)
but totally missed the back story of his crimes
very well narrated and researched
and very engaging
- so much better than those today/tonight or 60 minutes rubbish TV shows

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Great story, well narrated

A true life story regarding a suspected serial killer who went under the radar for decades. Loved it.

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Great journalism

A really careful, sensitive investigation with so much empathy for the pain of those involved.

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Brilliant unaffected investigative journalism, creatively executed

This podcast stands head and shoulders above the now ubiquitous ‘True Crime’ podcasts and is unaffected investigative journalism, yet beautifully creatively executed story - brilliant music and sound design!

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Great effort guys

Well researched thus great podcast.. Condolences to families of all those who have gone through the loss of a loved one at the hands of evil.

And many thanks to all those who joined you either on tape or behind the scenes.
I'd definitely be interested in any other content that you both put out whether it be individually or jointly. I thought that you both complimented each other.

Thanks for the background of his selfish suicide. I remember this shooting as I live in Perth WA.

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Bloodguilt

Bloodguilt:
A really very different “true crime” podcast. And being different made this very, very palatable. It was victim centred, whilst still being able to explore the “why” of the perpetrator… which circled back to the hope of discovering “who” the third victim was.

Dan Box’s podcasts have always been fascinating, caring, with a focus on missing and murdered indigenous individuals, and more people should listen to them. His work is as important as it is interesting.

Congratulations Dan and Kate.

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Intriguing and slightly unsettling

Loved it. Could not step away.
Well researched, beautifully narration and production.
Unsettling because the honesty of the people involved and the narrators shows how close we all are to being victims of people like the subject of this piece.
Also puts the media's presentation of the "facts" of these crimes into perspective when people are reduced to one dimensional images to serve the agendas of those publishing the stories.
I'd be keen to hear more from this team.

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Excellent.

Lots of perspectives. Good insights, info and questions. Well told. Well worth listening to.

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Bloodguilt

This was easy listening and very well researched. It bought up some excellent points about how some women are viewed and therefore they are prejudice against. A great listen

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the researchers passion for thruth

very well done, makes you think from many different perspectives. every life is a life.

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