It’s Father’s Day, 2005, and Robert Farquharson is driving his three sons, Jai, Tyler and Bayley, home to their mother’s house.

They’d spent the day together, with their mum, Cindy Gambino, helping the boys put together a Father’s Day gift for Robert. It was a framed photo of his three sons, aged 10, seven, and two. 

As a treat, Robert took the boys to Kmart where he bought them toys, and then to KFC for dinner in Geelong. 

Afterward, they set off along the Princes Highway, on their way to Winchelsea. 

It was on this route, that the unthinkable happened. 

The white VN Commodore Robert was driving veered across the highway, crashed through a fence, and began to sink in a farm dam. 

Their mother, Cindy, would call it the ‘blackest ever night’. 

It is a case that has imprinted itself on the memory of Victorians. But perhaps, author Chris Brook asks, all is not as it seems.

 

CREDITS

Guest: Chris Brook

Host: Jessie Stephens

Producer: Gia Moylan

Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri

 

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