Sex, lies and murder: Who killed brothel madam Shirley Finn? | Australian Story
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2019
- We go behind the scenes at the inquest into one of Australia’s most chilling cold cases, the 1975 murder of Perth brothel madam Shirley Finn.
From the outset, rumours of police and political involvement swirled around the case, many believing that Shirley Finn was silenced when she threatened to reveal the secrets of powerful figures in Western Australia.
When we last visited the story, Shirley Finn’s daughter Bridget Shewring and author Juliet Wills had succeeded in obtaining a coronial inquest after a decade-long battle
Australian Story follows the two women through the twists and turns of the inquiry as they grapple with new allegations of police and political corruption and we hear from crucial witnesses, fronting the cameras for the first time.
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The cop that laughed about what went through her head is disgusting.
My uncle Jim Boland used to tell us she knew to much about people and got dealt with. I later found out he was the first cop on the scene before a call even went out and actually was caught out by other police standing over the body. He was corrupt as hell to the point he got fired for stealing, and in the inquest someone said they heard a man in Tom Price saying he did it, I am born and bred Paraburdoo in 1977 and Tom Price is 89km from Paraburdoo and uncle Jim aka James Boland used to visit us a lot and he was the cop that said neddy smith did it
Wow, born and bred in Sth Perth in '50. My old man was a Cop. Years later he told me Cops killed her but he never elaborated.
You must be in your 70yrs now
@@dawnegan3984 71 Dawn
@@johnsavage1109 yes savage
Ye Bernie Johnson was the trigger man, we pretty close to Shane now passed away. Yep that's the name everyone knows. Pollies and cops are responsible bout time they came clean don't you think. It's all there evidence but know one with balls game enough!!!
Good.
So the only people who had a motive were the certain police who threatened her life, the only other trouble was the tax man & he had nothing to gain by killing her, nice of the police to set her up with her killer, telling her this was the person who could help her. The higher up the person is that's going to go down the more likely they are to have her killed! This crime should not go unpunished!
"What went through your head?"
Cop: "not what went through hers" AND FLIPPING LAUGHS
He's a disgusting example of a man.
OMG what an Arsehole. I heard that and had to replay it, I honestly could not believe my ears. 😲😲😲
My thoughts too. Sounded like black humour of a murderer. Disgusting.
I couldn't believe what I hearing, I had to play it back. What an absolute garbage human he was. RIP Shirley...
I have never heard anything like that. Absolutely shocking, to think of saying that let alone saying that to a journalist, but to laugh like that. He obviously believed he was above any accountability and a cold blooded murder was of no significance. It was literally a laughing matter, that guy wasn't just criminal he was off kilter. So good that Shirley's daughter looked for the truth, It looks like they have found the truth but it's not been proved.
@@roseharvey2664 Look up the word "Misogyny", it will give you great insight. Professor Germaine said and I quote "The biggest mistake women make is to underestimate how much men hate them".... you heard it all in that reply.
Omg that comment and laughing over her death was disgusting
random thought: her house was gorgeous. i definitely understand not wanting to lose a house like that bc of a tax problem
Definitely agree on that one
Ladies,I believe we all know the truth.Shirley would be proud of all you have achieved.
Achieved What? Selling girls ? Why didn't sell her own daughters?
Say What???
Just the sheer evilness of Bernie's statement. "Not what went through hers" WTF?!
Chilling
Not Neddy Smith Bernie Johnson
@@tracycameron1225 agreed as if they need hit men and loose ends.
I don't understand why there hasn't been an Underbelly series done on organised crime and police corruption in Perth. So much content to work with.
Because it wasn't like this programs is saying Perth was a lovely place no one came forward for Shirley but all who new her every attended Linda Watson came along long after long after Shirley do you think Shirley would have to pay police if she having an affair with a cop you are all making a cloak and dagger story I just what to tell her kids she was a very nice person 🌟🕊️🌟🕊️
It’s pretty obvious who arranged this murder.
17:04 convinced me. How cold.
Shirley was quite a trusting soul to follow the Sunday night instructions of a man who had so much to lose if she started naming names at the upcoming tax meeting.
What a disgusting, corrupt group of officers. Find it difficult to believe everyone in the department didn't k ow exactly what was going on.
Desperation drives people to uncharacteristic behaviours i guess. She was a smart and confident woman, but it sounds like she was legitimately scared.
jaquiline was the true hero in this story. Shes brave. She helps solve the case. She breaks her silence. Without her all other efforts wont get results.
Sounds eerily similar to Sallie Anne Huckstepp's story.
It does it involves a SW, corrupt politicians and Neddy Smith ( he was Involved in both Shirley and Sallie deaths)
Thought so too
The Australian police couldn't lie straight in bed
New Zealand too
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yep that is for sure!!
YOU DO NOT GIVE AWAY YOUR PLANS TO BLACKMAIL ANYONE BY SAYING YOU WILL DEVULGE INFORMATION ABOUT THEM!!
17:02 (He had just seen a dead woman with 4 bullets in her head)
- What went through your head?
- Not the same as went through hers (laughing)
What a lovely guy.
I was in the middle of writing something when I heard this and I literally stopped and did a double take. Totally speechless.
damn, how insensitive. to laugh at 4 bullets thru the head. At least it wasn't his head.
Very dark sense of humor❣ ☠❣
I can never understand how people can be so callous.
Bernie Johnson to think the through the head comment was funny is pretty disgusting
Very sick man he must be
Sadly Me too.. but her family and friends Wouldnt think it amusing I'm sure..
Arrogant Cop-what thought went through your head-not the same thought that went through Shirly's head. And laughed! Nasty s t head and GUILTY. Fabulous woman chasing this down, this callous Police Murder.
What an amazing Powerhouse of a Lady ‼️ Wishing I had known her! Thoughts are with her Kids & loved ones ‼️
Pete x
Proffesional hit man🤔.... like a copper u mean???
Wouldn't have to hide anything if a cop was the hit man just run a bulldozer through the crime scene.
Tiger truthful!! Coppers are bent af!!
Hadyn Wills good idea🤣that won't draw attention? Duuur!
Shit.... are u a copper🤣
Tiger she OBVS knew sumat! Maybe he liked eating shit n wearing dirty nappies tho, wot wud the boys in blu think😂😂. It was defo on film wotever he liked!!! It's called blackmail🤠
I am confused as why a 13 yo was brought in front of a magistrate when she had a relationship with a 20 yo man.
@@RosieTime_ yes the parents would tell the boy to say it didn't happy DAA fixed all that up ✔️and age of concent could have still 21 yrs girls I'm pretty sure DNA I ment
Indeed. Thinking that same thought myself.
At 13, you don't have "relationships" with men, that's called paedophilia.
Normal in Australia
@@manzorico4363 it certainly isn't
RIP Shirley
they will never talk beacause of police who killed her there was no hit man
No there had more respect for Shirley
@@dawnegan3984 she did not deserve respect. Selling young women and earning money . Surely she earned a lot more than the girls she sold. If she gas given them money.
@Miss Droplette if there was nothing wrong with what she was doing, why didn't she sell her own daughters and herself? Since when selling vulnerable girls has become a decent job? She deserved to spend all her life in prison. World is a better place without people like her. She paid them money? She took most of it for herself. She deserved to die. Her selfish arrogant daughter speaking of conscious. Neither her nor her selfish mother had conscious. Expecting others to have conscious.
Blackmail!! She had the receipts guys, bent copper, they like some wierd shit n she had the proof!!!
OFF TOPIC: I was just reading about the Ita Buttrose's "Australia Talks" project on the ABC website (The ABC's new Australia Talks project surveyed more than 50,000 Aussies to find out who we are, where we're headed, and what we care about.). Can anyone else see the Irony in the Chair of the ABC Ita Buttrose's "Australia Talks" project when the ABC News (Australia) RUclips page has the Comments Turned Off? It appears only a unidirectional information flow is allowed; any cross-flow of information is banned.
@TwentyPassFour - AU : Be very careful accepting any form of censorship and especially censorship of opinion or "fact". Just look at the omission of stories by the ABC (e.g. 250 million person strike in India; the recent unrest in France due to new legislation to stop protestors filming the police) or the now debunked "Russiagate" narrative, or the oppression of the whistleblowers from the OPCW exposing the narrative behind the Syrian attacks, or Bolton threatening the head of the OPCW saying, "I know where your children live". If you aren't the author of the comment, how do you know what information has been removed due to "trolls" and what information has been removed to create propaganda by omission? Just look at the media blackout in the US of the information on Biden's son's laptop exposing what Biden knew of his son's business dealings just before the election. I'm certainly no Trump fan, but this is clearly intervening in the remnants of the democratic process. Be very careful allowing the Atlantic Council controlled Facebook and Google moderators of truth to tell you what is real and what is fake. And now as the Washington vassal state of Australia is sacrificed on the alter to allow the Anglo-American empire to threaten China, it's more important than ever to keep aware of what is potentially a plethora of propaganda coming down the pike. So it just coincidental if you give a narrative explaining in detail the propaganda by omission, or you post a comment that invokes thought on a controversial topic, your comment is removed?
@@animalfarm7467 fox is better is it ?
@@ZootZinBootZ Why do people like you always assume that it's a binary choice we make when we critique an MSM outlet? "Oh you don't like The Guardian. I bet you love The Herald Sun though."
You know some of us can recognise that they're all lying for their own ends.
@@serendpity3478 strangely defensive there...such a mind should have been more discerning about such a reply so transparent im embarrassed for you.
@@ZootZinBootZ And I hope that one day you can afford a keyboard that has punctuation marks on it. So that people are able to understand wtf you're rabbiting on about.
that why she was killed she going to name names an police. ray had to do with it they shot her close range as looked like hit man
the Lady said she hopes people that people who we're responsible for this poor Ladys death, I hope those responsible develop a Conscience, those types of people never develop a conscience., if you don't develop a conscience by the time your 7 years old , then you will never develop one.
After all this time you would think that there is no reason to keep quiet
There is reason to be quiet. No one gives a shit
What a stupid answer and then to laugh about it. This was a human being he was laughing about. Shame on him.
there was young officer who just started work there he drove those police around he was told if he said any thing his family die he now died
Name?
Juanita Nielson...Abe saffron
...Sally Anne huckstepp ...Rodger Rodgers...it's everywhere...it's rife....it's the way they did it ... it's over....
The person who introduced her to met the higher guy to help her. I think that person setting up the hit man to killed her to shut her mouth
She got Epsteined
The laundry was run by Good Shepard Nun it was for girls who had problems thier was only 2 brothels in Perth Shirley left George years before she met Rose
Didn't open the boot ❓
So disgusting that people who are supposed to enforce the law are nothing but monsters.
Scary stuff.
Just shit
Don't mess with the higher powers or they will take you out. All I can hope for is that all that is covered over will be uncovered
Damn a lot of things has happened in Perth.
Such as ? I think adelaide is worse
Johnson was envolved with her death
Oh yes, the Catholic laundries. What fine institutions.
/s
why it happen she was goin to talk to reporter an they through she say about police pm government lawyer there was no hit man
Just like Sydney kings Cross in the 80's
Names and a book with them in it ,FEAR
"Madam" and "murdered" You knew she had to have been blackmailing someone or threatened to.
Not necessarily.
How about as a madam she refused to agree to sick violent "freebies" the corrupt cops and others wanted from her employees? How about they kept demanding more and more protection money? You don't threaten/ blackmail cops like that. I've met them, in Perth, the continuing culture of corruption and it was much worse in Shirley's day
What went through ur head? Not the same as hers!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
Taken into evidence & promptly destroyed!
I CANNOT GET OVER THE HANDLING OF THE CRIME SCENE-WERE THEY ALL HIGH??!!!
Kui Wagacha The
no, they just had no intention of solving this crime
No they were all shitting themselves
as kites baby!!!!
Vice squad running vice.
The were doing thier job really there wasn't any crime in Perth the police have corrupt in those days I don't have any time for police and haven't for a longe
His joke was spectacularly distasteful. Ugh.
Pint of beer or glass of wine + $20 in a pokie machine original Aussie gangster
Its all hearsay, speculation , wheres the evidence ? Gun , fingerprints ? Who was her date that night ?
She also knew when she was going to be busted.
Who burned the photo albums? Rogerson
Cropped police 👮♀️
Why him? He was NSW not WA!
Du.... bloks 💔😥💜
If tbese women so convinced police killed that lady or were involved somehow?? Why tbe f... Would yiu put yourself in pissible danger ? Or anyime in danger by insisting on proving police involvment .. dosnt make sense .. it is what it is ..
Most ynings hapoen for a reason i think. . Not all cival disputes are sorted out in a court room. .
love you Bridget 💜💜💜💜💜
It's beyond clear who setup this hit now Idk who he hired to do it though
I thought brothels were legal in Australia?
Not in the 1970's.
Protection money
smoking really ages people
So she had a debt ..oh sorry a "tax problem "
So who was the person from sydney was it rodger
Don't be stupid.
Probably he was involved in shady shit all over the country not just Sydney
Lu McIntosh o my goodness very funny
Her murderer got his karma blown up by bikies😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍
near my mums home!! she heard a god almighty bang and the windows shook. I know people in kalgoorlie - Don Hancock owned the ora banda pub and bikies hassled his daughter so he shot one by their campfire. When police "arrived to investigate him", he was openly eating / peeling an orange..... citrus acids remove gunpowder residue. Police turned a blind eye and the bikies knew so they monitored his routine etc. unfortunately, lou lewis (a bookie) was in the car going to the races with him and was killed too. He was the father of my school mate Bradley lewis! fancy that? Oh - Hancock came to Lou's house that day and Lou drove. Unusually, he had a trailer and a just completed cubby house on it (no doubt for delivery to a relative). I found that unusual when mum called and I witnessed the mess.... it was a big bomb.
@@tobythescooterdog1532 far out!!!!!
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Ein verschwiegenes Pflaster
To much dirt on to many money men .italians dont like games
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Roger Rogerson?????
the term de facto is adjective not a noun so " ... her de facto." is meaningless.
Used the way you wrote it, it most certainly is a noun.
That's the lovely thing about language: we all knew what it meant anyway.
Not sure how it matters
Because, she was actually her partner, within a de facto relationship. I do realise that it is still clear what they were trying to convey. However, what was wrong with somebody pointing out the error?
Pedant
I used to date a madam once - she was 19 years my senior, i went from dud to stud overnight! she really knew what buttons to press...
Pity about the over-dramatic background music and sound effects. It’s so tacky and unnecessary.
She reserved it. Perhaps Someone taking the law in her or his own hand , which was wrong. . Why didn't she sell herself and her own daughters?. God knows how many of those girls were forced and she earned money out of those poor girls.
Not true she was a good person 💙
@@dawnegan3984 a person who sells young vulnerable women and makes a fortune out of them and does money laundering can not be a decent woman. Did she sell herself and her daughters as well? I don't think so. She is better off dead.
Do you mean deserved? I doubt any of the women were forced, probably there to make money.
Forced !?? What dark ages cave did that person crawl out of .. so ignorant ..
I mean... what was she expecting? Honestly 🤦🏼♀️.
For paying protection money to the Police, protection.
i dont believe for one second it was Neddy smith