18, July 1998. The Green Papaya Restaurant, Surrey Hills, Victoria.

A dozen staff were closing up for the night in the safe suburban upper class neighbourhood in Melbourne’s East.

Just as the restaurant owner, Leon Dong, had his staff clear the last plate of devoured lemon chicken from the tables, a pair of masked armed robbers stormed into the venue. The older of the two bandits, wearing a Richard Nixon mask, bellowed orders while waving a Smith and Wesson revolver around. The younger bandit, wearing a Ronald Reagan mask, bound the staff in the middle of the restaurant with filament tape.

As Reagan scooped up their loot and wished the bound victims a nice day, the older Nixon, with his paunchy belly and white velcro tab runners turned back and said; ‘Tell the coppers Lucifer was here...'

Join Shaun and Chloe in the second of a two-part episode discussing the tragic Silk-Miller police murders.

Note: It's recommended listening to the previous episode on Bandali Debs before checking this one out.

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This episode was produced by True Blue Media using the open source materials referenced below: 

1. Eavesdropping on Evil, by Wayne Howell
2. One Down, One Missing, by Joe D’Alo and David Astle
3. DPP v Debs & Roberts [2003] VSC 30 (24 February 2003), Supreme Court (Vic)
4. Wikipedia - The Silk-Miller Police Murders
5. Complaint against Vic detective dismissed, The Leader
6. Serial Killer to Testify at accomplice’s appeal, The Age
7. Is Jason Roberts a Police Killer? You be the judge, The Age
8. Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here

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