36 episodes
Who Killed Bob? Podshape True Crime
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- True Crime
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3.9 • 33 Ratings
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Why was mild-mannered, middle aged Sue Neill-Fraser convicted of murdering her partner Bob Chappell on their yacht in January 2009? It was a circumstantial case – no body, no witnesses, no weapon and no confession. Sue has always maintained her innocence and is now in her 13th year of a 23 year sentence in a Tasmanian prison. Psychologist and film producer Eve Ash jumped in at the deep end and has meticulously dissected this case for 12 years in a search for the truth. When Eve was joined by former homicide task force detective Colin McLaren the twists and turns became frightening. For everyone who believes in justice, this podcast will be a shocking eye-opener about a case destined to be Australia’s worst wrongful conviction.
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The boat is sinking
The Four Winds yacht is sinking and Bob Chappell has vanished. His body is never found, but for police, his partner of 18 years Sue Neill-Fraser becomes the obvious suspect.
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Searching for Bob
Police considered Sue cold and calculating, dumping Bob’s body in the river weighed down with a fire extinuisher. A sonar search for Bob started three months too late.
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Not always smooth sailing
Police said the relationship was over and Sue wanted Bob’s money and the boat. Why did the judge say this murder warranted a heavier sentence than most murders?
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Troubling timeline
Sue’s stories about her movements alerted police to inconsistencies and lies. Witnesses reporting a strange grey dinghy were dismissed while others whose stories had holes were accepted.
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Stranger than fiction
Someone predicts the boat would sink and something terrible would happen to Bob. Police install listening devices. Sue admits she did go down to the foreshore in the dead of night.
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Brick by brick
A witness describes Sue’s plots to kill her brother and Bob Chappell. A vendetta with a hit list is uncovered, and lies get torn apart. Is Sue connected to another missing man?
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Customer Reviews
Hate Listened This
This podcast just plain annoyed me.
It just felt like the same information over and over again. They seem to talk a lot about having tunnel vision of the police yet it feels like this podcast has this itself.
They talk a lot about Sue’s lies but I’m not sure what these were and how they actually defend this. Just heaps of waffle and I can’t get the clear key points.
The sound quality was also annoying as it used a lot of exerpts from a prison phone and that’s so hard to hear clearly.
Sue herself seems so evasive in the way she speaks this actually made me doubt her innocence more.
Also the way the two narrators interact in such a scripted way seems so old fashioned.
So yup this was a hate listen for me.
Very interesting
The first review I read in this was pretty negative. I for one found it gripping and engaging ! Very informative and keeps you coming back for more. Further more knowing it’s true and such an unfair miscarriage of justice has been put on sue. I investigated further and went on to sign and share the petition to free her from jail.
Just shows how people opinions can differ so much.
And how people with empathy can actually feel others pain while others just dismiss some others misfortune
Awesome
Please don’t let taspol stop your incredible work on this case , eagerly awaiting next episode !