ABOUT THIS EPISODE
The Florence Broadhurst Mystery In October 1977, nineteen-year-old Constable Tony Russell responded to a welfare check on his first day at Paddington Police Station. What he found in Florence Broadhurst's wallpaper factory would haunt him for nearly fifty years.
This special follow-up to our "A Murderer Takes Tea" episode tells the story that couldn't be told in our original Florence Broadhurst investigation, because at the time, the first officer on the scene was never allowed to tell it.
Tony Russell saw critical evidence that morning but within hours of finding the body, Tony was told to forget what he'd seen. He was never interviewed. Never asked for a statement. Never allowed to document his observations.
Through Tony's own words, recorded in a phone interview, we reconstruct what he saw that day, what happened to him afterward, and what his observations tell us about who really killed Florence Broadhurst.
Sources:
- Thomson, Katherine: Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst -
- Shand Adam: Australian Crime Stories (Season 2, Episode 4) "Killing Florence"
- O'Neill, Helen. The Laughing Hangman: The True Story Behind the Florence Broadhurst Murder. Sydney: Random House Australia, 2006.
Title Music: by Jesse Frank from Pixabay
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