Catching Lisa's Killer

Today the inquest heard bombshell evidence from a witness who says he saw Lisa Govan on a Harley Davidson with Gypsy Joker bikie Billy Grierson, the man a former police chief is suspected of killing, less than an hour before she vanished. The stunning testimony also revealed for the first time that Lisa Govan had previously visited the Club Deroes’ headquarters several times before.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While Police have been unable to serve a summons on the Club Deroe bikie accused of stomping on Lisa Govan’s head, today an associate of the bikie admitted to the Coroner, he spoke to Andrew Edhouse the night before taking the stand.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Natalie and Ben recount the evidence given by Trefor Atkinson, the Club Deroes associate accused of being in the clubhouse when Lisa was killed.  The key witness telling the Coroner that in the twenty five years since Lisa Govan disappeared, he couldn’t recall ever discussing the case with his flatmate and good friend Andrew Edhouse. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The bikie code of silence is tested on the second day of the Lisa Govan inquest when a long-serving Club Deroe is grilled about what happened the morning the 28-year-old went missing. Police are convinced former bikie John Hope knows more than he is letting on and that his ute was used to move Lisa’s body from the gang’s headquarters. His game of cat-and-mouse with the coroner is followed by testimony from two witnesses who partied with Lisa inside the Club Deroes clubhouse.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A witness reveals gruesome details about Lisa Govan’s final moments inside a bikie clubhouse as day one of the coronial inquest begins with a series of bombshell revelations. Meanwhile, a key bikie vanishes on the eve of the hearing and Ms Govan’s one-time boyfriend is a shock no-show after police fail to summons him. thewest.com.au/features/catching-lisa-govans-killer  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Somebody knows exactly what happened to Lisa Govan. But will they tell? The investigation into Lisa’s disappearance and probable murder has been suffocated by the bikie code of silence for twenty-five years. Join Natalie and Ben as they discuss the Coronial Inquest, which has the power to compel witnesses to talk, even outlaw bikies, as they set the scene of Kalgoorlie in 1999, the genuine wild west. thewest.com.au/features/catching-lisa-govans-killerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Murder, bikies and a small town’s secrets: the story of Lisa Govan’s disappearance from Kalgoorlie delves into the dark underbelly of the Aussie outback. Lisa Govan was last seen outside a bikie clubhouse in 1999, her body has never been found and no arrests made. Reporters Natalie Bonjolo and Ben Harvey’s true crime investigations took them back in time, to a place of bikies, skimpies, gold, legalised prostitution, drugs, big pubs and tough cops. The Kalgoorlie that Lisa disappeared from was the genuine wild west. Now, Police hope a Coroner’s inquest can break the bikie code of silence which has suffocated investigations, to finally solve the twenty-five-year-old mystery Join Natalie and Ben as they dissect the day’s events from court in Catching Lisa’s Killer; The Inquest.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.