INTRODUCING — Barrenjoey Road
The story of Barrenjoey Road explores the disappearance of Trudie Adams in 1978 from Sydney’s northern beaches in 1978 leaving a family and community devastated.
When 18-year-old Trudie Adams goes missing hitchhiking home on Sydney’s northern beaches in 1978, a family and community are devastated.
The case exposes the dark underbelly of the “insular peninsula”… a world where surfers run drugs home from Bali, gangs of men prowl the beaches and predators have unchecked power.
The story of Barrenjoey Road explores why the case was never solved and takes us all the way to the top... to a criminal monster with links to organised crime and police corruption at the highest level.
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Transcript
As you make your way up the coast of Sydney an hour north, you hit Paradise, a series of beautiful beaches along Baron Joey Road.
You might have heard it called the Insula Peninsula, and it's no surprise.
Many of the people who live here never leave.
But when an 18 year old girl disappeared from Baron Joey Road, this paradise changed forever.
It was here at a dance at the Newport Surf Life Saving Club that Trudy was last seen on Saturday night.
She was last seen heading north towards Avalon, where she lives.
40 years ago, Trudy Adams left a dance on Sydney's northern beaches beaches to hitchhike home.
She never made it.
I would like anyone that could give any information whatsoever to do so.
Time is running out of.
There's no reason why she hadn't have turned up.
My views were at the time, this is a murder.
The murder investigation is just the beginning of this case.
The seven rapes, all carried out by two men, all took place in the thick bush inland from the northern beaches.
The rapes were of such maniacal brutality that even now the police have refused to reveal details on or off the record.
It was going to be a grave.
It was definitely going to be a grave.
For who or for what, do not know.
What starts with an investigation into a missing teenage girl calls into question relationships at the highest levels of law enforcement.
It's never about the actual incidents themselves, it's about the cover-up.
And this sort of stuff is referred to within policing circles as a career fucker.
I'm Ruby Jones, and in this season of Unravel, I'm going to investigate what happened to Trudy Adams.
Something like that happens, and it just changes everything, unfortunately.
In this story, Trudy isn't the only one who hasn't made it home safely.
The question is, why has it taken this long to connect all the evidence?
This is a guy who's out of control.
If these are the things we know about, you can just begin to imagine what we don't know about.
I knocked on the door and he said, I've got a shotgun, I'm going to shoot you.
How can he possibly be a family friend?
How the fuck could you even let him in your house knowing what he's done?
I just despised him that much.
I just knew and we were all.
It's him.
It's him.
He's the one.
Join me from October 9.
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