Karmein Chan 2 – Mr Cruel 7

Karmein Chan 2 – Warning, this episode contains details about the sexual assault of children and the murder of a child. Please use discretion before listening.

In Karmein Chan 2, the second episode of the podcast series on the story of Karmein Chan, https://melbinmarvels.wordpress.com/ and Whoismrcruel.com continue their analysis of the media fallout in the wake of Karmein’s abduction.

New Information


– For the first time, we reveal new information from a detective who worked on the Spectrum taskforce which serves to strengthen the argument for why police believed the same offender was responsible for all four attacks.

What’s included in this episode?

  • Continuing coverage of the contemporary media coverage of the case and the how they continued to get things wrong.
  • How David Sprague appealed with the offender to release Karmein by attempting to appeal to his sympathetic side.
  • More about about Sierra suspect #2 and his connection to the case.
  • A discussion on the startling case of Paul Wilson, a prominent criminologist the Herald Sun were paying to provide commentary on Karmein’s abduction, and his own conviction for the indecent treatment of a child in the 1970s.
  • The interesting case of a suspect seen curb crawling near PLC in the weeks before the attack.

To learn more about the Mr Cruel case, look up some of Melbourne Marvels’ other blogposts and podcasts about this case. These blogposts contain more information about these cases than you will find anywhere else on the internet. They are your go to for learning about the case. Click the following links to learn about the other unsolved crimes in this case:

Lower Plenty Attack
The abduction of Sharon Wills
The abduction of Nicola Lynas

NB: The use of copyright material in this podcast is for fair dealing for research purposes, for criticism and for reporting news. Melbourne Marvels is a non-profit blog/podcast that is researching the unsolved crimes of ‘Mr Cruel’.

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Karmein Chan in the year before her abduction.

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