Ghost Gate Road

Ghost Gate Road is one of those rare stories that you can never unhear, and it will embed itself in your subconscious like a virus and haunt you. Through time psychopaths have lived amongst us. But there are psychopaths and then there is Australia’s Vince O’Dempsey. Currently in prison for life for three murders, and charged with another, he has self-confessed to thirty-three killings. His weapons of choice are knives, and as a last resort, his bare hands. On the serial killer pop charts thirty-three victims puts him way above the Milwaukee cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, on a level-pegging with the Killer Clown, John Wayne Gacy, and just a fraction behind the infamous Ted Bundy. But Vince’s criminal associates laugh at his humility when it comes to a body count. All are convinced that his tally exceeds 100 victims. In this podcast series, author and journalist Matthew Condon, takes us back to Vince’s early years, where he terrorised a small country town and ultimately graduated to become the most feared man in the Australian underworld. We will piece together the story of his victims over half a century. We will talk to men and women who were close to him - family, workmates, fellow gangsters - and survived his evil. Gang members and criminals who worked shoulder to shoulder with Vince in the underworld finally speak out about the killer in their midst. And we will search deep into wild bushland for that unholiest of Grails – Vince O’Dempsey’s mythical private graveyard, where his many victims rest.

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  • Erin’s Gems
    Sound is terrible
    The content is great but the sound mixing is terrible. Super tinny, random music that is louder than it needs to be, horrible background sound effects that are totally unnecessary and interviews that are such poor quality, they should not be used. Sound makes me want to not listen.
  • b3853r
    Found you through True Crime Island
    First episode has grabbed my attention! I will be following this podcast & expecting great things.
  • Aussie Howie in LA
    Aussie abroad
    Absolutely riveting story . I’ve been walking around a beachside town in LA with the hairs standing on the back of my neck .
  • loves-true-crime
    Years of dedicated work
    This podcast is the result of years of dedicated work, and it shows. I hadn’t heard of this story and it is an amazing story. Thank you for bringing it to new generations. Brilliant, top notch, factual. Cheers to the hard working legal teams and Matthew Condon’s master journalist investigation skills.
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