The Adelaide Oval Abduction: Part Two - Australian True Crime
The Abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon - Part 2 of 2
A Queensland carpenter identified off a television screen twenty five years later. A man serving life who was ruled out by the only witness who saw the abductor's face. A friend of the family who was pulled in for questioning and never charged. And an upholsterer with a shack in the mid north whose own grandson wrote forty pages about him from a prison cell.
Fifty three years on, nobody has been charged with the abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon. What the case has instead is names. In Part two of the Adelaide Oval abductions, we chase down the suspects and present new evidence in this horrifying case.
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Sources:
• Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Joanne_Ratcliffe_and_Kirste_Gordon
• Andrew Rule, "50 years on, the search for a depraved man who abducted and killed two little girls continues", Herald Sun, August 2023. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-rule/50-years-on-the-search-for-a-depraved-man-who-abducted-and-killed-two-little-girls-continues/news-story/28ecaa5f898e6d96f4c03bb566116128
• Elizabeth Henson, "Adelaide Oval abduction witness Tony Kilmartin reveals what happened the day Kirste Gordon and Joanne Ratcliffe were taken", The Advertiser. https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/adelaide-oval-abduction-witness-tony-kilmartin-reveals-what-happened-the-day-kirste-gordon-and-joanne-ratcliffe-were-taken/news-story/91a88591d76f28407092ebd318a990f9
• Belinda Jepsen, "The Adelaide Oval abduction", Mamamia. https://www.mamamia.com.au/adelaide-oval-abduction/
• "Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon abduction: Adelaide Oval mystery breakthrough", Under Investigation, Nine, October 2022. https://www.nine.com.au/tv-shows/joanne-ratcliffe-kirste-gordon-abduction-adelaide-oval-mystery-breakthrough-under-investigation-20221031-p5rcy0.html
• Bryan Littlely and Max Marten, Sleepers, season 1, episode 2, interview with Anthony Kilmartin. Show index: https://shows.acast.com/sleepers-its-time-to-rise
• Bryan Littlely and Max Marten, Sleepers, interview with Alex Bone, recorded November 2024. Show index: https://shows.acast.com/sleepers-its-time-to-rise
• 1973 SANFL season, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_SANFL_season
A Queensland carpenter identified off a television screen twenty five years later. A man serving life who was ruled out by the only witness who saw the abductor's face. A friend of the family who was pulled in for questioning and never charged. And an upholsterer with a shack in the mid north whose own grandson wrote forty pages about him from a prison cell.
Fifty three years on, nobody has been charged with the abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon. What the case has instead is names. In Part two of the Adelaide Oval abductions, we chase down the suspects and present new evidence in this horrifying case.
Sleepers Podcast - Bryan Littlely and Max Marten https://shows.acast.com/sleepers-its-time-to-rise/episodes/688c7609fc150bcf7f24a146
Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast
Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast
Contact me - [email protected]
Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay
Sources:
• Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Joanne_Ratcliffe_and_Kirste_Gordon
• Andrew Rule, "50 years on, the search for a depraved man who abducted and killed two little girls continues", Herald Sun, August 2023. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-rule/50-years-on-the-search-for-a-depraved-man-who-abducted-and-killed-two-little-girls-continues/news-story/28ecaa5f898e6d96f4c03bb566116128
• Elizabeth Henson, "Adelaide Oval abduction witness Tony Kilmartin reveals what happened the day Kirste Gordon and Joanne Ratcliffe were taken", The Advertiser. https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/adelaide-oval-abduction-witness-tony-kilmartin-reveals-what-happened-the-day-kirste-gordon-and-joanne-ratcliffe-were-taken/news-story/91a88591d76f28407092ebd318a990f9
• Belinda Jepsen, "The Adelaide Oval abduction", Mamamia. https://www.mamamia.com.au/adelaide-oval-abduction/
• "Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon abduction: Adelaide Oval mystery breakthrough", Under Investigation, Nine, October 2022. https://www.nine.com.au/tv-shows/joanne-ratcliffe-kirste-gordon-abduction-adelaide-oval-mystery-breakthrough-under-investigation-20221031-p5rcy0.html
• Bryan Littlely and Max Marten, Sleepers, season 1, episode 2, interview with Anthony Kilmartin. Show index: https://shows.acast.com/sleepers-its-time-to-rise
• Bryan Littlely and Max Marten, Sleepers, interview with Alex Bone, recorded November 2024. Show index: https://shows.acast.com/sleepers-its-time-to-rise
• 1973 SANFL season, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_SANFL_season