People you meet along the way - EP18 - Bill Cavanagh PT3

Bill Cavanagh shares a heartfelt appeal for information about his father's murder, emphasizing the violent nature of the crime. He portrays his father as a complex individual with ties to organized crime, suggesting that these connections may have influenced the motive for his death. Cavanagh also touches on his father's relationships with younger women, hinting that personal dynamics could have played a role in the tragic events.

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In 1984, convicted criminal, standover man and armed robber, bill Kavanaugh used the airwaves radio station two GB to issue a rambling and at times emotional plea for information about the person who shot and killed his father. Trucking company owner and operator. 58-year-old Edward John, bill Kaner at his home at Hoxton Park in southwestern Sydney. The gunman also shot and killed Kavanaugh's girlfriend, 21-year-old come leader Lee. Bill, you say it was a thrill killer. Is that all it is? It, it's, it's, it's a bit of both. It's revenge and it's also thrill. I mean, anybody that pumps that many bullets into anybody at all has gotta get some sort of a thrill outta it. Or they wouldn't do it, would they? Well, do you know of any motive for the killing? Yes. Yes I do. My father was a hard man. He was, uh, uh, there's a, there's a few relations getting around saying my father was a good man and all that, but I still stand by what he was before he was alive. I mean, I love my father, but he was a very hard man and a hard man to get along with. Well, what was the motive for the killing Bill? Revenge. More, more revenge than anything. Against who? Against my father. What, what for what enterprise, what for? Well, there's a thing called, called grass cutting. That's what it's called in the criminal world. I mean, not only in the criminal world, but um, you mustn't touch another man's woman. Does that make sense to you? Yeah, I follow that. You understand? And that's, um, I believe now the information that I have, that's one of the reasons why that he has died. And, uh, I have, I, I personally can say that I have two people on the list who I think kill me. Father Probing police uncovered evidence of Kevin as dealings with organized crime and the Collabion Mafia with Godfather Robert and Boley using the Cavanaugh trucks to transport marijuana from Griffith to Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. In 1998, multiple killer Lindsey Rose admitted to killing the pear, claiming the killings, atone for Cavanaugh's bashing of one of his mates. He also told detectives he'd kill Carmel to Lee so there would be no witnesses to the murder. But son Billy Junior, suspected otherwise. Well, getting back to what you said for the motor, for the killing of your father. Yes. You put this down to robbery? No. Wasn't robbery. Not At all. No, It was not robbery. Robberies don't act that. A robbery just doesn't go down like that. Well, the revenge you said, you mentioned your father's indulgence in young women In with other people's women. That's correct. Yeah. Well, how did that work? What was the, what was behind that? Well, my father always, uh, he was a man that always had somebody else's woman. He was one of them sort of race.'cause he got on pretty good with women. Um, he got on good with younger women as they got older. Once a woman got over 25, he didn't want too much to do with them. You know, that's the way he was. Um, And you think the killer is someone that he has wronged in this manner? I've got the killer down to two people. As always. There's more to.