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Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation

Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation

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 The iconically revered super racehorse Phar Lap’s death has been shrouded in mystery and intrigue.

Kerry Negara embarks on the first full forensic investigation around the death of the Australian wonder horse Phar Lap, to discover why he was brutally killed, by whose hand and why, at Menlo Park Ranch in California, USA.

Killing Phar Lap: A forensic investigation podcast uses excerpts from the following publications:

'Killing Phar Lap: An untold part of the story' by Biff Lowry
'Tommy' a documentary by Neil Kearney
'Me & Phar Lap: The Tommy Woodcock Tapes' by Jan Wositzky
Jay Hansen memoir (unpublished)


Conor Duffy ABC Radio interview with Graeme Pearce, 2006
This Fabulous Century - Peter Luck interview with Mary McCann, 1999
'Satan’s Playground: Mobsters & Movie Stars at America’s great gaming resort'
by Paul J Vanderwood

Thanks To Biff and Katie Lowry, Neil Kearney, Jan Wositzky and J’Lene Hansen Mendenhall, Christian Cipollini - Mob Historian, Ivan Kempson from University South Australia, Dermot Henry from Melbourne Museum and David Paterson from the Melbourne Synchrotron for their co-operation.



We use Actors to bring to life memoirs and letters, otherwise actual voices are used.

Under the Australian Copyright Act 1968 some excerpts in Killing Phar Lap: A forensic investigation, have been used under Fair Dealing in the act for research, study, criticism and review. The Fair Dealing Act allows for use of copyright material without the copyright owner’s permission in these situations. Australian Copyright Council https://www.copyright.org.au/)
Kerry Negara: Writer / Producer
Richard Di Gregorio: Technical Producer
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    • Episode 10: Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation - Ep 10

      Episode 10: Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation - Ep 10
      Jan 16 2022

      In a short update Kerry is delighted to announce that Killing Phar Lap was nominated for Best Podcast in the True Crime category at the Australian Podcast Awards 2021. On the other hand the National Museum curators & Director Mathew Trinca throw the Phar Lap heart DNA testing process into chaos.
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      10 min
    • Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation - Ep 9

      Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation - Ep 9
      Nov 20 2020
      A heart as big as Phar Lap’s. Journalist Peter Luck’s ground breaking interview with Mary McCann in the late 1990’s includes horse vet Bill Nielsen’s confession to his daughter – “It’s not Phar Lap’s heart, it’s a draught horse’s!” Portions of Phar Lap’s heart pieces that were cut out and put in separate jars in 1932, are sent to a cutting edge lab in France for DNA testing. We take into account the entirety of all my findings, of all the evidence. Not long before his death Tommy Woodcock is diplomatic yet explicit and reveals what really happened to Phar Lap.
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      20 min
    • Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation - Ep 8

      Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation - Ep 8
      Nov 20 2020
      A recap - The indisputable facts - Horse vet Bill Nielsen’s devious behaviour leaves traces. Bill fails to report the ‘medicine’ he dosed Phar Lap with on the early morning of his death, instead blaming Tommy Woodcock for grazing Phar Lap on arsenic sprayed pasture. Mob historian Christian Cipollini puts the birth of the mob’s so called ‘Murder Inc’ in 1932 into perspective to reveal the unified, deadly nature of the Syndicate, coast to coast, across the whole country. Australian journalist Bert Wolfe was at the scene when Phar Lap died and firmly believed the great horse was deliberately poisoned. Was competitive millionaire race horse owner Willis Sharpe Kilmer involved? Does the metal box containing Phar Lap’s remains, that Bill Nielsen buried at Menlo Park, contain Phar lap’s real heart?
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      19 min
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