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Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation

Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation

Kerry Negara

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Jay Hansen memoir (unpublished)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
Logo Design: Sophie O'Connor
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11/01/20 • 17 min

In the Arms of Criminals on the San Mateo Peninsula. Kerry describes Phar Lap’s excruciating death at Menlo Park, California followed by the immediate & critical post mortem.
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11/06/20 • 35 min

The Border Barons - Satan’s Playground - Hollywood movie stars and mafia mobsters mix it up at the famed Agua Caliente Race Club resort and casino.
Sore Heads - empty pockets – Dave Davis and his inside circle win a fortune on Phar Lap to the wrath of the mob’s race fixers, and quickly leave Mexico for the safety of the Menlo Park ranch, California
Back at the Menlo Park ranch, it is horse heaven, gangster heaven. But then .. everything went wrong ... “Did Ed Perry recruit Bill Nielsen into the death plan?
Horse vet Jay Hansen recalls his family’s time living at the Menlo Park ranch in 1932 when Phar Lap died.
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11/20/20 • 19 min

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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11/13/20 • 20 min

Winter of 2005; a seed is planted for the invisible to become visible – forensic science at its best. Ivan Kempson from the University South Australia and Dermot Henry from Melbourne Museum reveal how they tested Phar Lap’s hide hair and found he had ingested an enormous amount of arsenic in the hours before his death.
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11/01/20 • 18 min

Inside Information. Kerry gives the background to her family’s enduring relationship with Tommy & Emma Woodcock.

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11/06/20 • 33 min

High Hopes – Taking on the World – “The best holiday I ever had, just me and me horse” - California here I come.
After amassing a fortune on Phar Lap, why would our great horse’s owners send him to the dodgy race tracks of Mexico and the United States?
Tommy & Phar Lap arrive in Tijuana for The Agua Caliente Handicap, the so called richest horse race in the world.
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10/30/20 • 28 min

Dedicated to Tommy Woodcock & Phar Lap. Kerry Negara outlines the forensic investigation that has taken her over 5 years to deliver in this ground breaking podcast. She tells how Phar Lap was killed in Menlo Park California, by whose hand and why. Along the way Kerry questions whether the iconic heart specimen on display at the National Museum of Australia is actually Phar Lap’s heart. Kerry believes it is not.
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11/20/20 • 18 min

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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01/16/22 • 9 min

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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10/21/20 • 1 min

A teaser trailer to the upcoming podcast - Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation.
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.
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Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation currently has 11 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Mystery, True Crime, Gangster, Murder, Podcast, Podcasts and Crime.

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The episode title 'Episode 10: Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation - Ep 10' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation is 21 minutes.

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Episodes of Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation are typically released every 5 days, 1 hour.

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The first episode of Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation was released on Oct 21, 2020.

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