Episode 7 of our collaboration with Whoismrcruel.com on the story of the Karmein Chan abduction.

NB:- this podcast deals with topics of a serious nature. Sexual assault and murder are discussed.

This episode includes the following:-

• Victoria Police send 1.4 million posters to every household in the state seeking information on the abductions of Sharon Wills, Nicola Lynas and Karmein Chan.
• A man in Victoria abducts and rapes a 7 year old girl two days after receiving one of the aforementioned posters.
• A senior police officer working on the case tells journalists he believes Karmein is dead.
• Sheree Beasley is abducted, raped and murdered in Rosebud leading to comparisons in the media between this offence and the abduction of Karmein.
• Phyllis Chan sends a message to Mr Cruel with a secret code that only Karmein can solve.
• Cop killer Peter Reid attempts to extort John Chan of $15,000, telling him from a Pentridge Prison telephone that he will release Karmein if he's paid the money.
• The Chan household receives other unusual phone calls to their unlisted number on the birthdays of Phyllis and Karly, Karmein's sister.
• The Spectrum Taskforce is embarrassed by the revelation they've published 1.4 million posters of Karmein using a photograph from when she was 8 years old.
• New photos of Karmein are published which show what she looked like just before her abduction. These photos lead to new leads in the case.
• Phyllis once again pleads to the offender to release her daughter on Karmein's birthday, 5 November.
• VIC Police reinterview many of the previous victims, including Nicola in the UK.
• Two more prank callers get in trouble for making obscene calls to the Chan family.
• A home invader attempts to tie up and abduct a 12 year old Vietnamese girl in St Albans on a rare night off for the Spectrum Taskforce.

Episode 6 of our collaboration with Whoismrcruel.com on the story of the Karmein Chan abduction.NB:- this podcast deals with topics of a serious nature. Sexual assault and murder are discussed.

This episode includes the following:-

• Premier Joan Kirner appeals to the offender to release Karmein.
• Police conduct Victoria Polices's largest ever doorknocking campaign in Templestowe to seek information and receive some concerning information from residents nearby from a family with a 13 year old girl whose house was broken into.

• The story of a local boy who was followed by a stranger in the days before the abduction.
• PLC returns from school holidays.
• A Police public servant car is stolen from a home on the same street where the Lower Plenty attack occurred before it's pursued by police and crashes into the Chan restaurant in Eltham?
• Operation Spectrum is set up.
• Phyllis Chan writes a letter to the offender (published in a Melbourne newspaper), referring to him as 'Mr Kind', and appeals to him to release Karmein.
• A local songwriter writes a song for Karmein and tells of her own experience of surviving an abduction attempt as a teenager.

In this exclusive Melbourne Marvels special, host Eamonn tracks down and speaks directly with the elusive witness who encountered Mr Cruel on the very night he released his young victim, Sharon Wills. For decades, this brief but chilling interaction has lingered on the edges of the case, and it has been unclear as to whether it was a genuine encounter with the offender. Now, for the first time, listeners will hear the witness recount his experience in his own words—what he saw, what he felt, and what he remembers most about that night.

This rare conversation sheds new light on one of the most disturbing chapters in Melbourne’s true crime history.