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Join us as we continue to chisel through the bars and unpack some of Australia's greatest prison escapes.
In part two, we bring our attention to the modern 70s and 90s focusing on tales of disguise and the Post Card Bandit's stress of cutting through several razor wire fences.
Content resources
- Great escapes. The Sydney Morning Herald. January 21 2006
- Jailed Australian drug lord found hanged. UPI Top News. May 1997.
- Brisbane’s mad dog quizzed over underworld death. Brisbane times. March 23 2010.
- Public Enemies: Russel ‘Mad Dog’ Cox Ray Denning and the golden age of armed robbery. Mark Dapin 2020.
- Mad Dog free after life term cut. AP Grafton, The Guardian 2004.
- From the archives, 1988: Russel Cox arrest after a decade on the run. The Age. May 2020
- Crime files with John Ure: Russell "Mad Dog" Cox escapes from maximum security prison. 29 June 2022. Crime files with John Ure: Russell "Mad Dog" Cox escapes from maximum security prison | The Maitland Mercury | Maitland, NSW
- ‘Mad Dog’ Cox set to walk free. The Sydney Morning Herald. October 17 2004.
- The Banjo Patterson of bank robbers, how Australia’s most wanted man reminded undetected for 11 years. 9 news. Eden Faithfull. 2020.
- Exercise yard. Maitland Gaol 2023. Exercise yard - Issuu
- Australia outlaw - the true story of postcard bandit Brendan Abbott. Derek Pedley 2006.
- Stick 'em up: how crims made the '80s a special kind of hell for banks (smh.com.au)
This episode of Austranged is hosted, produced and edited by Cal, Dave, Rachel and Stevo. Opening song, 'Shivers in the Shadows' is composed by Victor Lundberg.
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