Show Notes
On the night of 27th January 1963, five people were shot across the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. Four attacks. One night. No apparent connection.It would take months before police understood what they were dealing with. Years before the full truth came out. And decades before two innocent men — wrongfully convicted of crimes committed by the same killer — finally had their names cleared.
This is the story of Eric Edgar Cooke. Known as The Night Caller. Australia's last serial killer to be executed. A man whose crimes didn't just take lives — they destroyed them, long after he was gone.In this episode: the victims, named and remembered. The murders that shocked a city. The wrongful convictions of Darryl Beamish and John Button. The rifle left in a bush. And the question of how a quiet, sun-baked city at the bottom of the world lost its innocence in a single night — and never quite got it back.
Content warning: this episode contains detailed discussion of murder, wrongful conviction, capital punishment, and violence.
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