Introducing Witness: William Tyrrell

The definitive story of Australia’s most controversial missing person’s case. Launches 8 October 2024.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Breaking news, a three year old William Tyrell went missing.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
One of Australia's most baffling cases exactly ten.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Years foster mother has always from inside the home.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Of She's the greatest actor in Australian criminal history.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
What if I told you everything you thought you knew
about the disappearance of William Tyrrel was wrong? Not the
big things. A three year old boy wearing a Spider
Man suit goes missing from a tiny town on the
mid north coast of New South Wales, and ten years later,

(00:39):
we still haven't found him.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
My whole identity seems to hang on that one investigation.
It's the never ending nightmare.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
We wake up, we just freelive it. But what about
everything else? Like how the police say they know what happened,
that they know why, they know, how they know where
William is. People get hurt in these investigations.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
And I'd be lying if I said that I never
looked back on that and thought, did I make a mistake.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Or how So much of what you've seen or read
about William's disappearance is mistaken or misleading.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
I'll lost my son and I'll lost myself as well.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
In a new podcast from News dot com dot au.
We're going back to the start of the police investigation
into William's disappearance. We'll reveal what was done right, what
was done wrong, and the lives that have been destroyed
as a result.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
After ten years, you wouldn't believe what their child's been
through or what I've been through William. I don't hurt him,
we just don't have our boy.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I'm Dan Box and this is witness William tyrrel