March 6, 2025 • 9 mins
We're taking a look at some of our favourite bits from 2025 so far.. who can go past this moment - when crime struck the O'Connell neighbourhood.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Got anything good.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Tell you what it is or the stress or this
crime you're hearing it about the crime, all these attacks
in the suburbs that came out my ways, shock horror.
We had the police going door to door yesterday. Never
seen my wife so activated. It's like, actually she's been
a sleeper agent all her life. She before they even
(00:31):
came to our house, there were like two doors down.
She was out there.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Excuse me? Is it inspector? And comfortable what I'm doing
with here.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
We'll get to your house, madam.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Just can you go indoors? Actually were going mega Charen,
wrap this up now, it's just a stolen car.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
For crying out.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I've got proper crimes going on anyway. So they're in
our street yesterday overnight car's broken into, including mine, Patsy. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
they around about midnight and I'm guessing teenagers and they
they just trashed my car and I'm obviously looking for
(01:13):
They must have got excited and then from excitement.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
To who drives a car? List is a lady? Or
that Essential oils.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And gluten free low car pretzels in the center console
for when I get Nun Sugar's gang can get my
pretzels out that they'd actually just angry like no, so
nothing of value and your value those essential oils I have,
they're not cheap. They're not cheap price at the moment
of Frankincense is through the roof, guys, because I want
(01:42):
the three wise men traveling around in my car. I
can't afford more, but I can get Franknson.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
They were hoping for gold, but they got frankent some
central oils.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Those are thrown on the foot well as well.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
They trashed the car. It's allnoy inconvenience.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But then sadly a young girl she must be ninety
or twenty, lives opposite us.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
They stole her, can't drove it away.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
So the peace were going door to door asking everyone
one's got any cameras or anything. Hence why missus O'Connor
been waiting for this, because we have cameras, never had
any course, luckily to use the cameras. Suddenly this was
our evening. You know, there's these real life stories now
of like couples, couples who get their kicks from to
solve crimes. I think my wife thought This was going
to be a new thing.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
For us, when you know, a true crime podcast.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
This is going to be our thing now, solving crime.
And she was so happy. Was just like I said,
I've never seen you so excited, never seen you so excited.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'm you excited. Christ and I trying to.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Rewind through the footage, and she goes suddenly right. I
then just couned on.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Some of the stuff going this is taken ages.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Suddenly I hear this, bang she said this, She went, bang,
I've got them ways, come and see this some blurry footage.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Okay, it's never blurry footage.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Bury footage of sure enough, just trot them. At midnight,
a car drive by, okay, obviously comes back and then
you see the lights of this poor girl across the
road from us. Devil's got in the car and they
just go off. She's got the footage. She goes over there.
I then decide I don't need to go over there
and starve this.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I don't. My wife doesn't come back in for two
and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh wow, I don't know whether she's actually pacing up
and down homes presenting how she sold. So we're looking
for whons but no one has any I'm going to
need some more snacks.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Actually, where do you get those prinzels?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
All by the way, And then I thought, I've never
seen that car in this street before.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
As home center, Watson wants the game is afoot, I'll
have more prosecco.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Actually please. Two and a half hours she was over,
I went to bed.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't even know what. I don't think she's come home.
I'm presuming she's come home. Out there presenting her finest,
but she's got the footage huge.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
For the place and for the girl whose cars missing.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well, all they're going to get is like you know,
when you go you gotta easy land, you get a
photo of you on the right. All we've really got,
especially the car being driven off. Yeah we know, mate,
it's at night. You see some lights come on and off.
It goes like yeah, yeah, they know that you're not
solving the case. Going we solve the case of the car.
It's definitely got stoling officers. Yeah, thanks Karen, thanks for
(04:18):
coming in this email. Next time the video file. They
can't do enhance enhance, Well, you watched those TV shows
where they go you know in her mind she had
the Zappua footage of the JFK assassination. Back into the left,
back into the left. All right, so Ever, how solve
a crime? A Christian O'Connell show podcast. We're looking for
(04:40):
your stories that I tried to help solve a crime.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
If you ever done anything on this.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Very minor crime I helped solve a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Was I mean, I presumed it was. I didn't think
you'd taken down some big gangs over your years. Wrapped
that one up pretty neatly.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
A friend of mine was packed in my house as
a visitor and got side wiped and the car drove off,
and I, that's awful. And I went to my neighbor's
house two doors down and said, those cameras that you
got pointed in at the street, do you think we
could have a look at him? And sure enough we
were able to reverse reverse saw that.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It was a bike.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
There's bike with the big wooden things on the front
to carry shopping, kids or whatever. A guy coming down
the street couldn't handle his bike and just smash the
front the box into the car.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And made a slow escape. They made a some hipster
on a bike.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
You can actually see him riding away and keep looking
at the stop. So I gave them the footage.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I'm not sure if that you felt great though.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I felt like I felt like how Sarah felt, was
like you go through the footage and then you going.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Got him? Case closed? All right? Hello Howard Christian there going, Yeah,
I'm good, welcome to show. Thanks for calling in. So
what's your what's your story? Trying to help solve a crime.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
So we live across the road from the school and
there was a notice lept on our door by the
police one day when we got home and it said,
you know, we noticed you got cameras. Can you have
a look. We had some equipment stolen, some stool across
the road and it was a bit of earth moving
equipment and excavation and excavator.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
They were doing these young kids. Now these trade school
was young, don't they.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
When you said equivalents, I thought about like.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Robins today we just started buckets, suspain's in the sampit.
Now they got excavators in Australia.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
So the criminal was so unlucky, you know, he pulled
up in a budget rental track and the only reason
he got caught because it was a windy day and
the wind was causing our crews to move, which activated
the cameras.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You're kidding you caught it all on camera. Yeah, you
felt grazy.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
He gave us a good He called to say they
did catch the guy and they got the excavator back
and he was prosecuted.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Why wow, Wow, you're a super citizen.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Butlenda, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
How are we there?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Were? Good? Now? Blenda? What happened?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, my partner and I had to get our detective
caps on because one night after work, my mountain bike
was stolen from outside of work.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Do you have a fancy one?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah it is. It is a nice looking at mountain bike.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
They can't help themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I brought a nice mountain bike a couple of years
ago in London and someone said to me the best
thing to do was get some sandpaper.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And scraffed up.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, this is a bad bike. Not really thieves. So anyway, yeah,
carry on, said you had your fancy mountain bike. Did
you have a one of those big locks?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I did have one of those big locks, straight through
it cut open. Yeah. So next day up and down
the streets looking at cameras, trying to get businesses and
residents to help figured out which way he went, went
around kind of the dodgy pots of the area, and
my partner put up some flyers with a reward sign
(07:54):
on it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Just just want to know what kind of reward you
put up from Mountain Bike?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
How much?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It was a cash reward of five hundreds. Yeah, So
he put on those little pull off tab things like
that Crime Busters.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
One night he got a got a bit of a
stuff pull from an unknown number, and there was some
dude on the other end going, I've got your bike.
I want that reward.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You want to trade, I've got your bike.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah. So he got in his car and he was
meant to go meet him alone, but it was like
a bit stufs. So our mates were over at the
time and housemates and whatnot. So four lanky dudes with
baseball bats and whatever they could think just popped into
the van behind him, followed him the whole way and
drove like half an hour away from where we were
(08:52):
picked up this bike, brought it back home.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
What about the cash exchange?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Oh, he got the cash exchange. She Yeah. This guy
jumped out the car and my partner basically just like
here you go through it at him drove off really quickly.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Wow, So was that that he was most likely dealing
straight with the thief. Yes, I'm putting on together work.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Wow, we've got we found out Watson to homes. So
do you think he did it? The Christian O'Connell Show
podcast
Got anything good.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Tell you what it is or the stress or this
crime you're hearing it about the crime, all these attacks
in the suburbs that came out my ways, shock horror.
We had the police going door to door yesterday. Never
seen my wife so activated. It's like, actually she's been
a sleeper agent all her life. She before they even
(00:31):
came to our house, there were like two doors down.
She was out there.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Excuse me? Is it inspector? And comfortable what I'm doing
with here.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
We'll get to your house, madam.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Just can you go indoors? Actually were going mega Charen,
wrap this up now, it's just a stolen car.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
For crying out.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I've got proper crimes going on anyway. So they're in
our street yesterday overnight car's broken into, including mine, Patsy. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
they around about midnight and I'm guessing teenagers and they
they just trashed my car and I'm obviously looking for
(01:13):
They must have got excited and then from excitement.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
To who drives a car? List is a lady? Or
that Essential oils.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And gluten free low car pretzels in the center console
for when I get Nun Sugar's gang can get my
pretzels out that they'd actually just angry like no, so
nothing of value and your value those essential oils I have,
they're not cheap. They're not cheap price at the moment
of Frankincense is through the roof, guys, because I want
(01:42):
the three wise men traveling around in my car. I
can't afford more, but I can get Franknson.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
They were hoping for gold, but they got frankent some
central oils.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Those are thrown on the foot well as well.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
They trashed the car. It's allnoy inconvenience.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But then sadly a young girl she must be ninety
or twenty, lives opposite us.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
They stole her, can't drove it away.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
So the peace were going door to door asking everyone
one's got any cameras or anything. Hence why missus O'Connor
been waiting for this, because we have cameras, never had
any course, luckily to use the cameras. Suddenly this was
our evening. You know, there's these real life stories now
of like couples, couples who get their kicks from to
solve crimes. I think my wife thought This was going
to be a new thing.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
For us, when you know, a true crime podcast.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
This is going to be our thing now, solving crime.
And she was so happy. Was just like I said,
I've never seen you so excited, never seen you so excited.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'm you excited. Christ and I trying to.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Rewind through the footage, and she goes suddenly right. I
then just couned on.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Some of the stuff going this is taken ages.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Suddenly I hear this, bang she said this, She went, bang,
I've got them ways, come and see this some blurry footage.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Okay, it's never blurry footage.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Bury footage of sure enough, just trot them. At midnight,
a car drive by, okay, obviously comes back and then
you see the lights of this poor girl across the
road from us. Devil's got in the car and they
just go off. She's got the footage. She goes over there.
I then decide I don't need to go over there
and starve this.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I don't. My wife doesn't come back in for two
and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh wow, I don't know whether she's actually pacing up
and down homes presenting how she sold. So we're looking
for whons but no one has any I'm going to
need some more snacks.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Actually, where do you get those prinzels?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
All by the way, And then I thought, I've never
seen that car in this street before.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
As home center, Watson wants the game is afoot, I'll
have more prosecco.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Actually please. Two and a half hours she was over,
I went to bed.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't even know what. I don't think she's come home.
I'm presuming she's come home. Out there presenting her finest,
but she's got the footage huge.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
For the place and for the girl whose cars missing.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well, all they're going to get is like you know,
when you go you gotta easy land, you get a
photo of you on the right. All we've really got,
especially the car being driven off. Yeah we know, mate,
it's at night. You see some lights come on and off.
It goes like yeah, yeah, they know that you're not
solving the case. Going we solve the case of the car.
It's definitely got stoling officers. Yeah, thanks Karen, thanks for
(04:18):
coming in this email. Next time the video file. They
can't do enhance enhance, Well, you watched those TV shows
where they go you know in her mind she had
the Zappua footage of the JFK assassination. Back into the left,
back into the left. All right, so Ever, how solve
a crime? A Christian O'Connell show podcast. We're looking for
(04:40):
your stories that I tried to help solve a crime.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
If you ever done anything on this.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Very minor crime I helped solve a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Was I mean, I presumed it was. I didn't think
you'd taken down some big gangs over your years. Wrapped
that one up pretty neatly.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
A friend of mine was packed in my house as
a visitor and got side wiped and the car drove off,
and I, that's awful. And I went to my neighbor's
house two doors down and said, those cameras that you
got pointed in at the street, do you think we
could have a look at him? And sure enough we
were able to reverse reverse saw that.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It was a bike.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
There's bike with the big wooden things on the front
to carry shopping, kids or whatever. A guy coming down
the street couldn't handle his bike and just smash the
front the box into the car.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And made a slow escape. They made a some hipster
on a bike.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
You can actually see him riding away and keep looking
at the stop. So I gave them the footage.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I'm not sure if that you felt great though.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I felt like I felt like how Sarah felt, was
like you go through the footage and then you going.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Got him? Case closed? All right? Hello Howard Christian there going, Yeah,
I'm good, welcome to show. Thanks for calling in. So
what's your what's your story? Trying to help solve a crime.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
So we live across the road from the school and
there was a notice lept on our door by the
police one day when we got home and it said,
you know, we noticed you got cameras. Can you have
a look. We had some equipment stolen, some stool across
the road and it was a bit of earth moving
equipment and excavation and excavator.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
They were doing these young kids. Now these trade school
was young, don't they.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
When you said equivalents, I thought about like.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Robins today we just started buckets, suspain's in the sampit.
Now they got excavators in Australia.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
So the criminal was so unlucky, you know, he pulled
up in a budget rental track and the only reason
he got caught because it was a windy day and
the wind was causing our crews to move, which activated
the cameras.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You're kidding you caught it all on camera. Yeah, you
felt grazy.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
He gave us a good He called to say they
did catch the guy and they got the excavator back
and he was prosecuted.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Why wow, Wow, you're a super citizen.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Butlenda, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
How are we there?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Were? Good? Now? Blenda? What happened?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, my partner and I had to get our detective
caps on because one night after work, my mountain bike
was stolen from outside of work.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Do you have a fancy one?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah it is. It is a nice looking at mountain bike.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
They can't help themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I brought a nice mountain bike a couple of years
ago in London and someone said to me the best
thing to do was get some sandpaper.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And scraffed up.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, this is a bad bike. Not really thieves. So anyway, yeah,
carry on, said you had your fancy mountain bike. Did
you have a one of those big locks?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I did have one of those big locks, straight through
it cut open. Yeah. So next day up and down
the streets looking at cameras, trying to get businesses and
residents to help figured out which way he went, went
around kind of the dodgy pots of the area, and
my partner put up some flyers with a reward sign
(07:54):
on it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Just just want to know what kind of reward you
put up from Mountain Bike?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
How much?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It was a cash reward of five hundreds. Yeah, So
he put on those little pull off tab things like
that Crime Busters.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
One night he got a got a bit of a
stuff pull from an unknown number, and there was some
dude on the other end going, I've got your bike.
I want that reward.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You want to trade, I've got your bike.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah. So he got in his car and he was
meant to go meet him alone, but it was like
a bit stufs. So our mates were over at the
time and housemates and whatnot. So four lanky dudes with
baseball bats and whatever they could think just popped into
the van behind him, followed him the whole way and
drove like half an hour away from where we were
(08:52):
picked up this bike, brought it back home.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
What about the cash exchange?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Oh, he got the cash exchange. She Yeah. This guy
jumped out the car and my partner basically just like
here you go through it at him drove off really quickly.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Wow, So was that that he was most likely dealing
straight with the thief. Yes, I'm putting on together work.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Wow, we've got we found out Watson to homes. So
do you think he did it? The Christian O'Connell Show
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