Australian True Crime30 Jun 2024

Shortcut: Carly Ryan's Legacy: What's Changed Since Australia's First Catfish Murder

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.

In 2006, Adelaide teenager Carly Ryan thought she'd met the boy of her dreams on social media by the name of Brandon Kane.

Brandon was a character invented by pedophile Garry Francis Newman, who was in his fifties at the time and communicating with literally hundreds of underage girls around the world, posing as a boy their age. Newman enlisted his own teenage son to help him groom the girls and try to persuade them to meet him in person.

In February 2007, Newman and his son traveled to Adelaide to meet up with 15 year old Carly. They took her to her favourite beach where they raped and murdered her.

Carly's mother, Sonya Ryan has since led efforts for over a decade in Australia to make her home country one of the toughest on online crime and harms and now an international leader in crime prevention.

Sonya joins us on Australian True Crime to talk about what has become her life's work, The Carly Ryan Foundation.

Click here to visit The Carly Ryan Foundation website.

You can also report online abuse at:

https://www.esafety.gov.au/

https://www.accce.gov.au/

Australian True Crime LIVE is coming to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne this July! It'll be full of special guests and Q+A's, and we can't wait to see you in person. You can find tickets by clicking this link.

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CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram

Guest: Sonya Ryan

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

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