Murdered because she new too much: the untold story of the Whiskey Au Go Go fire | 7NEWS Spotlight

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 14 июн 2021
  • It was Australia’s worst mass murder case until the 1996 Port Arthur massacre - the firebombing of the popular Brisbane nightclub Whiskey Au Go Go in 1973 left 15 people dead. But the victims of this horrific crime didn't end there. Barbara McCulkin and her daughters Vicki and Leanne were killed nearly a year later, over fears Barbara was about to blow the whistle on who really started the fire.
    Reporter Steve Pennells lifts the lid on this heinous crime, meets the survivors and the man who was helping Barbara flee to safety.
    Subscribe to 7NEWS Spotlight for the latest video » 7news.link/SpotlightSubscribe
    Connect with 7NEWS Spotlight online
    Visit » 7news.com.au/spotlight
    7NEWS Spotlight Podcast » smarturl.it/7NewsSpotlight
    Facebook » / 7newsspotlight
    Twitter » / 7newsspotlight
    Instagram » / 7newsspotlight
    7NEWS combines the trusted and powerful news brands including Sunrise, The Morning Show, The Latest, and 7NEWS.com.au, delivering unique, engaging and continuous coverage on the issues that matter most to Australians. Watch 7NEWS nightly at 6pm and weekdays at 11:30am and 4pm on Channel 7 and 7plus.

Комментарии • 163

  • @gleadhill79
    @gleadhill79 2 года назад +88

    You just know how brutal the investigation was for the people who had to solve the crime. Respect to them for catching the stone cold murderer! R.I.P to all those who lost their lives 🙏

  • @tediousone2804
    @tediousone2804 2 года назад +45

    Evil. Absolutely evil.

    • @mpalmer7800
      @mpalmer7800 2 года назад +1

      What cruelty!!! It’s almost unbelievable.

  • @glenn-younger
    @glenn-younger 2 года назад +11

    Who wishes she hadn't told anybody what she was planning?

  • @flowerpower8722
    @flowerpower8722 2 года назад +102

    They always seem to put off solving crimes until it's no longer useful because everyone's died of old age. It happens a lot in Australia from crimes in the 70s and 80s. Even then it's only come out because someone spoke up, not because of police work.

  • @eveoakley6270
    @eveoakley6270 2 года назад +18

    I had to skip the part where that star witness described what they did to that poor family, I couldn’t bear to hear it 😓

  • @documax123
    @documax123 2 года назад +11

    You'd think the gangsters could have just torched the place when it was closed and nobody in it. Brainless thugs, people didn't need to die like that.

  • @andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697
    @andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697 2 года назад +17

    this was a bizarre case and what happened to all those poor people and how bad the underworld and how it was all connected to the whiskey go go nightclub

  • @realaussiemale567
    @realaussiemale567 2 года назад +27

    Some would say police in Brisbane still haven’t changed, all these years later.

  • @christinalikoski4937
    @christinalikoski4937 2 года назад +36

    She signed her death warrant when she told others what she was going to do
    Could she go to the police I wonder 🤔
    In the those days both sides were involved
    Who did you really trust in those days 🤫
    Sad story for all
    Australia 💕 Christina

    • @Lesloi6227
      @Lesloi6227 2 года назад +2

      nope she couldnt go to the police.

    • @johnjones.3427
      @johnjones.3427 2 года назад +2

      It's still like this...ol bogga road days.

  • @marykelly7726
    @marykelly7726 2 года назад +37

    Gary Dubois topped himself in Maryborough Prison a couple of weeks ago. Putrid.

    • @MrDhandley
      @MrDhandley 2 года назад +13

      Good

    • @The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door
      @The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door 2 года назад +18

      After all these years he kicks the bucket just before this inquiry, very interesting 🤔

    • @fayecox9401
      @fayecox9401 2 года назад +9

      Took the easy way out evil man hope he goes to hell

    • @gizzmo4408
      @gizzmo4408 2 года назад +4

      Well..saved the tax payer and made it as final as he made his poor victims

  • @mrdlama4036
    @mrdlama4036 2 года назад +13

    Father should have sorted that out years ago

  • @nillyk5671
    @nillyk5671 2 года назад +9

    Why marry a criminal? 😞
    Why expose your children to that? And why was her husband off with another woman?

  • @tediousone2804
    @tediousone2804 2 года назад +31

    Please stop shooting reporter's faces during interviews. The people's story is what's important, your emoting isn't.

  • @fayecox9401
    @fayecox9401 2 года назад +26

    RIP to all those that died

  • @ratso4443
    @ratso4443 2 года назад +3

    It’s hard to believe the wickedness that inhabits people.

  • @rosewills84
    @rosewills84 2 года назад +20

    People too pressed about a single spelling mistake lol relax … rip to those who lost their lives 🙏🏻 this is the first time I’m hearing about this story.

    • @philipsmi-lenguyen8155
      @philipsmi-lenguyen8155 2 года назад

      Lol. Ikr. Geez louise,i find em so annoyin. 1 of em might even pop up here n say
      "It's then not em,and it's and not n." Lol

  • @budmonkey
    @budmonkey 2 года назад +10

    It's "knew" not "new" in the title. Pay some attention at least😕

  • @realsabrina9362
    @realsabrina9362 2 года назад +29

    She married a criminal and payed with her life. I feel sorry for her children. 😔

  • @zukosmom3780
    @zukosmom3780 2 года назад +5

    So sad. Emotions are still running high

  • @edithaalcock6164
    @edithaalcock6164 2 года назад +8

    She NEW ( instead of KNEW )…is just a technical error..but understandable..no big deal…

  • @debporter8114
    @debporter8114 11 месяцев назад +2

    So Sad a mother and 2young daughters rip..❤❤❤

  • @nateschmitz9827
    @nateschmitz9827 2 года назад +27

    Typo in the title, she KNEW * too much

    • @The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door
      @The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door 2 года назад +5

      Such a simple word! How could anyone get the spelling wrong? It’s laughable!

    • @gleadhill79
      @gleadhill79 2 года назад +3

      It's like 'there' 'they're' 'their' isn't it, simple English 😉

    • @flowerpower8722
      @flowerpower8722 2 года назад +2

      So many yt videos have zero effort in correcting spelling in the title. I refuse to watch the ones that misspell your and you're. Basic grade 4 English.

    • @xxxxjet1982xxxx
      @xxxxjet1982xxxx 2 года назад +2

      This is our future.
      Dumb!
      Or as the experts would write it, dum!

    • @hayleyfay4779
      @hayleyfay4779 2 года назад

      You commentators should rather be grateful that someone uploads with really good sound for you to watch for FREE. Than worrying about spelling mistakes. Maybe English is their 3rd or 4th language. Nasty bunch

  • @juliettemacdonald6184
    @juliettemacdonald6184 2 года назад +11

    I can understand the real killers, who set fire to the nightclub, wanting to silence the woman who knew they were guilty.
    Barbara, the mom, should not have spread it to others that she was going to report the real killers.
    But her 2 daughters were at a birthday party the night they came to abduct their mom.
    I doubt she would have given name's and info about such dangerous men + their guilt to her daughters who were so young.
    I don't see the daughters as being a threat to them + there was no need for them to be murdered.

  • @99smurfette
    @99smurfette 2 года назад +7

    Ok 5 fuggin commercial breaks for a GD 18 min video? Ridiculous youtube, beyond greedy.

  • @reginaagustine5254
    @reginaagustine5254 2 года назад +10

    She “KNEW “ not new

    • @YuiHirasamaa
      @YuiHirasamaa 2 года назад

      its Australia mate haha

    • @margaretlemmon1143
      @margaretlemmon1143 2 года назад

      Can’t imagine anyone that can’t see an obvious typo without it being pointed out🙄

  • @patsparks8731
    @patsparks8731 2 года назад +2

    This was one of the most disturbing crimes to hear about...pure evil and nothing else.

  • @Mercito
    @Mercito 2 года назад +8

    she knew not new

  • @jarl9535
    @jarl9535 2 года назад +24

    Maybe there are cases that deserve capitol punishment

  • @thescarletandgrey2505
    @thescarletandgrey2505 2 года назад +13

    Thank God they keep cutting away to the guy who’s doing the interviewing, otherwise I wouldn’t have known when his expression was neutral, with slight curiosity, vs neutral, with inquisitive interest, or something in between.

    • @poihp25
      @poihp25 2 года назад

      That reporter tone.. 🤣

  • @jamesl9371
    @jamesl9371 2 года назад +4

    Wow 😮 she should have gone into hiding right away and told the police about what she knew

    • @JojoplusBo
      @JojoplusBo 2 года назад +1

      .. police couldn’t be trusted in those days either! Some ran along side the underground world, so therefore… you couldn’t or wouldn’t know who to trust.

  • @lazaruskarl2629
    @lazaruskarl2629 2 года назад +14

    May their soul R.I.P..Amen🙏🙏

  • @englishtainmentwithamal8455
    @englishtainmentwithamal8455 2 года назад +6

    Heartbreaks story

  • @samalbers997
    @samalbers997 2 года назад +9

    New to much????? Really??? I think 'knew to much' will fit better🤦‍♀️

    • @mcmd2009
      @mcmd2009 2 года назад +3

      *too*

    • @k_j_n1242
      @k_j_n1242 2 года назад +4

      If you're going to correct someone's spelling, you'll need to ensure that your own spelling is on point 👌🏽 ('too' not 'to' FYI)

  • @magoo4452
    @magoo4452 2 года назад +21

    When the police were more dangerous than a modern Mexican cartel,It’s hard to accept that the QLD police were not involved in this murder or know exactly what happened.

    • @flowerpower8722
      @flowerpower8722 2 года назад +4

      Well, some in the Qld police. You really can't paint all of them with the same brush. Altthough there were whisperings among people I knew a couple of years after this that a friend was murdered by the police but there was nothing anyone could do because the same would happen to them.

  • @yoramalon5273
    @yoramalon5273 2 года назад +8

    Why did they murder the two girls?
    They got nothing to do with it.
    Senseless cruelty.

    • @juliettemacdonald6184
      @juliettemacdonald6184 2 года назад

      That's what I thought!

    • @user-fw8om4uh9k
      @user-fw8om4uh9k 2 года назад

      Because they were witness I believe

    • @yoramalon5273
      @yoramalon5273 2 года назад

      @@user-fw8om4uh9k why they took the girls with their mother?. They could have done the mother , where/when the girls are not around. For example, they could have lured the mother , all alone, to a rendezvous.

    • @katrinacarter2019
      @katrinacarter2019 2 года назад

      Because they were there and they must had grabbed them early hours so neibours were asleep ,father was asking at 2am where his family was very horrific rip

  • @schkuba
    @schkuba 2 года назад +9

    Who wrote the title of this RUclips video? I think they need to go back to English class - it’s “knew”, not “new” 😂

  • @sconner6822
    @sconner6822 Год назад +1

    There was a women living with Vince before he was arrested. She disappeared!

  • @ladinajohnson4885
    @ladinajohnson4885 2 года назад +14

    "new" too much? this is so ghetto u need to correct ur title mister

    • @liyah8992
      @liyah8992 2 года назад +2

      How is that ghetto??😕

    • @k_j_n1242
      @k_j_n1242 2 года назад

      Are you suggesting that those who reside in 'ghettos' don't know how to spell? 🤔

    • @ladinajohnson4885
      @ladinajohnson4885 2 года назад

      @@k_j_n1242 r u mad NO don't read into it like that lol

    • @harley6222
      @harley6222 2 года назад

      ur=your

  • @jamesl9371
    @jamesl9371 2 года назад +4

    Some totally crazy things have happened in Australia

  • @soapiesoap5649
    @soapiesoap5649 2 года назад +4

    Knew? Not new

  • @veggibitch
    @veggibitch 2 года назад +3

    "New too much..."?! Seriously.

  • @williegallagher2124
    @williegallagher2124 2 года назад +2

    Its very simply get a volunteer go into the cell ask where the kids and mother are buried when they don't answer tell them you won't ask for another two hours go to work two hours later ask again.

  • @claire-christmas-august73
    @claire-christmas-august73 2 года назад +1

    so has this all occurred
    around the same time as the
    jan, 1974 floods that hit brisbane..?

  • @zadiegregory672
    @zadiegregory672 2 года назад +2

    He wasn't on handsome looking man to have all that power

  • @beez5338
    @beez5338 2 года назад +1

    Who grassed her up?

  • @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632
    @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632 2 года назад +3

    u would think now thay are in jail . thay would tell where thay are . what coward's

    • @gleadhill79
      @gleadhill79 2 года назад +8

      It's the only control they have left, so in their deprived minds, admitting where they are is their final act of defiance in the case. Personally, if put them in solitary confinement until they are ready to tell them...but I'm sure someone would say it goes against their human rights, as usual.

    • @marykelly7726
      @marykelly7726 2 года назад +5

      Gary Dubois could have said where they are before he took the coward's way out.

  • @Bebe23956
    @Bebe23956 2 года назад +4

    😢😢

  • @brendafitzgerald3797
    @brendafitzgerald3797 10 месяцев назад

    And the man/girl stands there smiling and then covering his mouth while letting a woman go over to defend him. Man up and be a proper damn man!

  • @mariejones3913
    @mariejones3913 2 года назад +1

    Ridiculousness

  • @natalie9884
    @natalie9884 2 года назад

    This is so sad

  • @BiPolarBear128
    @BiPolarBear128 2 года назад +2

    new too much ??? someone did not spell check before posting LOL it takes seconds to spell check ..just pure laziness

  • @emmaevans7011
    @emmaevans7011 2 года назад +2

    Zero excuse for leaving error in title.

  • @Me-ru6cl
    @Me-ru6cl 2 года назад

    The music....

  • @massonman9099
    @massonman9099 2 года назад +1

    Knew, ffs.

  • @rachellemoore4835
    @rachellemoore4835 2 года назад +2

    Who says they got the right people

  • @legentilhommedefortune
    @legentilhommedefortune Год назад

    Even in crime ozzies are gross ...

  • @nillyk5671
    @nillyk5671 2 года назад +3

    Why didn't they touch the cats? Did they forget them? Thank god they didn't but i wonder if there was a glimpse of humanity in one of them.

    • @barneyronnie
      @barneyronnie 2 года назад +2

      Cats couldn't give evidence ...

    • @fiona-lyons
      @fiona-lyons 2 года назад +1

      Seriously? They murder a mother and daughters, raping the little girls in the process but thank God the cats were unharmed???

  • @billyshane3804
    @billyshane3804 7 месяцев назад +1

    Vincent - Nano the Magician
    The Houdini of Homicide.

  • @mpalmer7800
    @mpalmer7800 2 года назад

    Blessings upon humans who believe in justice,, even when time is not on their side

  • @syngensmyth4587
    @syngensmyth4587 2 года назад +8

    These two crims who murdered a defenseless woman and her two kids are held up as heros no doubt by many in Australia.

  • @manifestedmemory2448
    @manifestedmemory2448 Год назад

    she *knew too much

  • @toychicauwu1562
    @toychicauwu1562 2 года назад +1

    😢😪😪

  • @drobles394
    @drobles394 2 года назад

    wow

  • @RoseLee65
    @RoseLee65 2 года назад

    I can't believe she would marry a disgusting criminal!!!

  • @blueyoshi8231
    @blueyoshi8231 2 года назад +8

    Was a seedy place🤔....still bloody is 😂🤣

    • @realaussiemale567
      @realaussiemale567 2 года назад +1

      Most of that seediness has moved south to Surfers Paradise, with protection from labor govt.

  • @teacake7175
    @teacake7175 2 года назад +3

    *Knew

  • @natalie9884
    @natalie9884 2 года назад

    Hope those interviews have sought therapy.

  • @petersmith9771
    @petersmith9771 2 года назад

    How beautiful is Donna

  • @KentRoads
    @KentRoads 2 года назад +3

    Knew****???

  • @loritracy1385
    @loritracy1385 2 года назад

    ( Pssst...is this Brief Case narrating?)

  • @xxxxjet1982xxxx
    @xxxxjet1982xxxx 2 года назад +1

    Chanel 7 Ned to lern how two spel 🤪

  • @juicyjules7409
    @juicyjules7409 2 года назад

    Cutie 🥰 daughters ugh 😩💜💜👱🏻‍♀️😉🤔💕🧚🏻‍♀️

  • @Crunt2167
    @Crunt2167 2 месяца назад

    😎👍

  • @BattleBecause
    @BattleBecause 28 дней назад

    The title of this video reads: "She new too much." New? Really? Don't you mean, "knew"?
    And to think you people are actually paid to do this job and you can't even spell!

  • @gulliver7419
    @gulliver7419 2 года назад +1

    Knew

  • @jessievr8111
    @jessievr8111 2 года назад +1

    *knew

  • @ghillie952
    @ghillie952 2 года назад +1

    Knew**

  • @whakaoriori9366
    @whakaoriori9366 2 года назад

    Port A = False 🇦🇺

  • @diggersouth
    @diggersouth 2 года назад +1

    Yet gun control is the big issue. She owns her own death as it appears she knew she married a criminal. Brought children into this world. Irresponsible and a bad decision.

  • @queenrainbowakamumabear5583
    @queenrainbowakamumabear5583 2 года назад +1

    Well if she New Too Much ,Can't Be That Honest

  • @ea8269
    @ea8269 2 года назад +2

    She knew or she new? I don't think your English is correct.

  • @xGuardedHoney53Music
    @xGuardedHoney53Music 2 года назад +2

    Can anybody shout me out

    • @5161estel
      @5161estel 2 года назад +4

      Shout out to ‘YTGuardedHon’

    • @holboroman
      @holboroman 2 года назад +1

      Knew! The past tense of KNow!

  • @janstolk486
    @janstolk486 2 года назад +1

    I thought it was going to be about the people around Hillary Clinton !

  • @njamiso2
    @njamiso2 2 года назад +13

    Not gonna lie. Australian documentaries are boring.

    • @gleadhill79
      @gleadhill79 2 года назад +21

      It's a real life crime story, they have to keep it sensitive for the friends and families that may watch. maybe you need Netflix?!

    • @The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door
      @The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door 2 года назад +8

      There’s plenty of other stuff to watch! 👋👋

    • @njamiso2
      @njamiso2 2 года назад +4

      @@gleadhill79 Netflix is boring too.

    • @njamiso2
      @njamiso2 2 года назад

      @@The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door too late. I watched the entire documentary.

    • @NyanyiC
      @NyanyiC 2 года назад +2

      The worst for me was the rich lady who disappeared together with her boyfriend in the bush. They had the documentary in the form of a panel discussion and kept repeating stuff 🙄 🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @Fern635
    @Fern635 2 года назад +1

    Knew

  • @malalapipe77
    @malalapipe77 2 года назад +1

    *knew

  • @MaryMP45
    @MaryMP45 2 года назад

    *knew

  • @markhindle9039
    @markhindle9039 2 года назад

    Knew