Lost in Larrimah

The Australian's daily news podcast The Front heads back to the tiny town that’s haunted by a huge mystery to unpack why the world is losing it over Larrimah.

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Kylie and Caro discuss the second part of the inquest into the death of Paddy Moriarty, including eight secret tapes recorded by police re-enacted by a voice actor, and the Coroner’s findings. 

In this episode, you’ll hear what it was like in the courtroom and what happens next.

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More than four years after Patrick ‘Paddy’ Moriarty and his dog, Kellie, vanished from the town of Larrimah, most of the tiny town's residents gave evidence at a two-part coronial inquest.

In this episode, we get reacquainted with Paddy and Larrimah, and share the coroner’s explosive findings.

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One of the most peculiar things about Paddy Moriarty’s disappearance is that his dog, Kellie, is missing too. We investigate the strange twist that might be the key to this mystery, and what his absence means for a town on the brink of vanishing.

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Paddy Moriarty loved a tall tale and was a known larrikin. Some of the possible explanations for his disappearance sound like tall tales themselves: there are sinkholes, crocodiles and a dangerous highway with form on vanishings. 

And by all accounts, Paddy had a bit past. 

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For people in Larrimah, the hardship isn’t just that Paddy Moriarty’s missing. Or that he’s probably not coming back alive. They’re facing the idea that one of their neighbours might have done something terrible.

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If there’s one thing Larrimah’s residents can agree on, it’s that Paddy Moriarty and Fran Hodgetts have been fighting for years.

Now, the grandmother, who makes pies for a crust, has people driving past her teahouse accusing her of murder. But she has her own theory about what happened to Paddy.

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As police begin to suspect Paddy Moriarty has met with foul play, existing tensions in Larrimah flare up. The town has been in a civil war for more than a decade. There’s a missing train, a secret cricket match, and accusations of theft, arson and hooning.

A rusty filing cabinet may hold the answer to what tore this Tidy Town apart. 

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Paddy Moriarty was a larrikin — and when he goes missing under mysterious circumstances, the tiny town of Larrimah finds itself in the midst of an Outback mystery. This is Never Never country, it’s easy to get lost here.

But there are plenty of other ways a man can disappear, and all of the town’s 11 residents have a theory about what happened. 

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