Megan Norris joins us again to talk about the case of Robert Farquharson.
Farquharson is the Victorian man who was twice convicted of deliberately driving his car into a dam on the night of Father's Day 2005 for the purpose of murdering his three children, Jai, 10, Tyler, 7, and Bailey, 2.
H…Megan Norris joins us again to talk about the case of Robert Farquharson.
Farquharson is the Victorian man who was twice convicted of deliberately driving his car into a dam on the night of Father's Day 2005 for the purpose of murdering his three children, Jai, 10, Tyler, 7, and Bailey, 2.
He also launched two failed appeals against his convictions.
Recently 60 Minutes devoted an entire episode to the story in which they called for yet another review of the evidence.
No one knows this case like Megan Norris. She's a journalist and author who started her career as a court reporter. Megan followed this case from the very beginning, first to write a series of magazine articles.
But through that process, Megan developed a close relationship with the mother of the three boys, Cindy Gambino. Cindy asked Megan to write a book about what she was going through, and thank goodness she did, because since Cindy's own death in 2022, that book "On Father's Day" has been her only voice.
Megan joins us on Australian True Crime to represent Cindy and to take us back through the evidence against Robert Farquharson.
You can click this link to view all of Megan Norris' books, including "On Father's Day".
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It’s Father’s Day, 2005, and Robert Farquharson is driving his three sons, Jai, Tyler and Bayley, home to their mother’s house.
They’d spent the day together, with their mum, Cindy Gambino, helping the boys put together a Father’s Day gift for Robert. It was a framed photo of his three sons, aged 1…It’s Father’s Day, 2005, and Robert Farquharson is driving his three sons, Jai, Tyler and Bayley, home to their mother’s house.
They’d spent the day together, with their mum, Cindy Gambino, helping the boys put together a Father’s Day gift for Robert. It was a framed photo of his three sons, aged 10, seven, and two.
As a treat, Robert took the boys to Kmart where he bought them toys, and then to KFC for dinner in Geelong.
Afterward, they set off along the Princes Highway, on their way to Winchelsea.
It was on this route, that the unthinkable happened.
The white VN Commodore Robert was driving veered across the highway, crashed through a fence, and began to sink in a farm dam.
Their mother, Cindy, would call it the ‘blackest ever night’.
It is a case that has imprinted itself on the memory of Victorians. But perhaps, author Chris Brook asks, all is not as it seems.
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In Australia, Father’s Day falls on the first Sunday of September and is typically a time for families to gather together and celebrate. But on Father’s Day in 2005, the small Victorian town of Winchelsea was rocked by news that a local man named Robert Farquharson had driven his three young sons – …In Australia, Father’s Day falls on the first Sunday of September and is typically a time for families to gather together and celebrate. But on Father’s Day in 2005, the small Victorian town of Winchelsea was rocked by news that a local man named Robert Farquharson had driven his three young sons – Jai, Tyler and Bailey – into a dam. Robert survived, but all three boys drowned.
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