Lost in Larrimah

The Australian's daily news podcast The Front heads back to the tiny town that’s haunted by a huge mystery to unpack why the world is losing it over Larrimah. Search "The Front" in your podcast app for daily updates from The Australian's newsrooms.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

More than four years after Patrick ‘Paddy’ Moriarty and his dog, Kellie, vanished from the town of Larrimah, most of the tiny town's residents gave evidence at a two-part coronial inquest. In this episode, we get reacquainted with Paddy and Larrimah, and share the coroner’s explosive findings.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paddy Moriarty loved a tall tale and was a known larrikin. Some of the possible explanations for his disappearance sound like tall tales themselves: there are sinkholes, crocodiles and a dangerous highway with form on vanishings.  And by all accounts, Paddy had a bit past. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If there’s one thing Larrimah’s residents can agree on, it’s that Paddy Moriarty and Fran Hodgetts have been fighting for years. Now, the grandmother, who makes pies for a crust, has people driving past her teahouse accusing her of murder. But she has her own theory about what happened to Paddy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paddy Moriarty was a larrikin — and when he goes missing under mysterious circumstances, the tiny town of Larrimah finds itself in the midst of an Outback mystery. This is Never Never country, it’s easy to get lost here. But there are plenty of other ways a man can disappear, and all of the town’s 11 residents have a theory about what happened. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.