American reacts to the most legendary prison escape of all time (John Killick and Lucy Dudko)
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Thank you so much for the shoutout and the kind words about my video and channel Ryan! I really appreciate you taking the time to stop by, and hope you keep finding more off-the-wall Australian things to react to. I'd recommend checking out clips from Round The Twist if you haven't already.
Hey! awesome channel!! I absolutely will react to that. Have a great day my man!
@@ryanreaction Even if you dont react to it, cop a gob full of round the twist. Paul Jennings is a God among Kids of the 90's.
Subscribed to yr channel @StrangeAustralian 🇦🇺 U have some cool videos on there mate !
Thanks for putting your vids out. Always something different and interesting. Seen a few already .Cheers.👍🏼
@@zalired8925 Thank you, glad you like my stuff!
If ever I was looking at a long stretch in prison I'd want Judge Ryan presiding over my court case.😂✌️
I was working at the SIlverwater MRRC when this happened. The whole place got locked down and nobody could go home until late that night...
Good old Govt strokers, shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.
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I knew people who were locked down at that time 😂
The video omitted one of the juiciest details. At the time of the breakout, Lucy was living with John's wife, Gloria. Lucy secretly planned the escape with Killick on her many visits to prison (apparently as much as three times a week), visiting John, supposedly in support of her landlady, Gloria. It appears Gloria was not part of the breakout conspiracy, but Lucy was the primary driver of the plan, hiding what was going on from Gloria.
It should also be noted that as a condition of parole Killick was not permitted to have any contact with Lucy until 2022, and still requires permission from his parole officer to speak to her.
Other bits of interesting trivia. Killick was the first Australian criminal to rob a bank of dollars at the time of the Australian change to decimal currency.
At the time of the helicopter escape Killick was serving time for a bank robbery that he claimed to have the perfect alibi for, and it became known as the "perfect alibi heist." He robbed a bank in Adelaide on the same day he was reporting to a police station in Sydney as part of bail conditions for another crime elsewhere. He was obviously clever enough to conduct seemingly impossible crimes with meticulous planning, in this case using an aircraft to make it look like he was in another city at the same time as the robbery. He is not the usual dumb criminal.
Even if the gun was unloaded, the pilot would not know that - imagine the fear and post-traumatic stress he would have suffered, as did the people in the banks he held up. He isn't a badass, he's a criminal.
If you want to watch a good movie about an Australian bank robber, true story , watch The Postcard Bandit 😅
And the Movie "Chopper" with Eric Banner.
The death penalty in Australia was abolished by 1985. Most states abolished it in the 1970s.
The last hanging was in 1967
Queensland abolished the death penalty in 1922.
He was imprisoned in Silverwater Correctional Centre, it's a minimum security facility. it's any wonder that he was able escaped from this jail. They had sent over 2000 love letters between him and Lucy.
That is one hell of a librarian!
Head librarian... 🎉😂
No death penalty any more, Aussies have to travel to Thailand for that 😂
or Indonesia
Or Bali with something suspicious under your shirt...
@@musicalneptunian Bali is a province of Indonesia so @ront2424 was ahead by one minute! Years ago I was a consular officer and remember that Bangkok had a “good news/bad news” reality regarding gaol sentencing. If they pleaded not guilty but there was proof of guilt, they got 67 years. If they pleaded guilty the sentence was halved to 33 years and 6 months. I tried not to bring it up if possible because there was a hint that I might be making a prank call straight out of “Monty Python”. The real situation was far too grim for that….
One of the bucket list items for crims visiting Asia! 😂
@@infin8ee yes!! 🤣 🤣 👏🏻
Brendan Abbott's escape was pretty epic. Outsmarted the cops for quite a while. Yes the Postcard Bandit film is about him
I went over there and gave him a like, good quality content for such a small channel.
capital punishment was abolished in 1985 in Australia
1967 was the actual last execution of Ronald Ryan.
You made this fun to watch. Love your reactions and comments. Lol.
I know the sister of a friend, who was a bank teller during an armed robbery. She never went back, and was never the same, her life was changed. Armed robbery should not be forgiven so summararily.
Damn right! I was a customer in a bank in Houston, Texas, that got robbed. I was okay, but you could tell, so many people were broken by it. Especially women!
I worked for the Commonwealth Bank and used to go to branches after hold ups. It is life changing for those involved and PTSD is real.
My grandmother was the victim of an armed robbery in the 90’s and she was severely agoraphobic for about 5 years, with it diminishing slowly over time
She still suffers from anxiety
ok ok you're right. Honestly the trauma would have you second guessing everyone the rest of your life and looking over your shoulder. In reality I f'n hate robbers. BUT this story was remarkable
Ronald Ryan was the last person to be ended by the death penalty in the 1960s; he had unalived a prison guard in a prison break out. Technically the death penalty was still on the books in one state [western Australia] until about 1983. But it was never going to be used again. Ronald Ryan's life would make a good video; he survived on the run for about a week, hijacking a car with an accomplice.
I remember this. I was living about 5k southeast of the prison at the time. Would have heard the chopper, but not realise, unless I was at work. It was a biiiig story!
Silverwater Jail is a low risk jail. No hard criminals are there. After this event they put up netting so this escape wasn't repeated.
Librarians man, gotta watch out for those librarians.🤣
ohh the glasses and the pigtails. They are HOT.
Yep, watch out for people like me 😈 📚
The only outlaw in the world to hold up an entire town and hold them captive overnight was a guy named Ben Hall, he died in a shoot out with police in the end and they counted 32 bullets in him.
The prisoner he shared a cell with who kidnapped and murdered 8 year old Graeme Thorne was notorious. He was referred to as the man who stole Australia’s innocence. It’s a sad story.
“What happened to Lucy Dudko?
Dudko served her time at the Mulawa Women's Prison and was released on parole on 9 May 2006. During her time in prison, Dudko wrote some 4,500 love letters to Killick. She ended all communications and as such their relationship when she rediscovered her faith in the Bible, something Killick did not believe in.”
So God won her back before Killick got out of prison! He’s 82 now.
Silverwater was a minimum security prison locate almost geographically in the middle of the Sydney metropolitan area, just a bit east of Parramatta. There was a men's prison and a women's prison ( mullawah) and some of inmates had very interesting stories.
This was clever
Capital punishment in Australia has been abolished in all jurisdictions since 1985. Queensland abolished the death penalty in 1922. Tasmania did the same in 1968. The Commonwealth abolished the death penalty in 1973, with application also in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
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stop what you're doing, grab your missus and watch the postcard bandit. i can only imagine how excited that will get you, if you're this excited about john killick.
Revering crims? Maybe you are an Aussie already ;)
Good girls like bad boys.
Fun Fact: My father was an inmate at Silverwater around that time, he was there because he stole 3+ million dollars. He served his time but he couldn't help himself and now the cops are after him again, actually it's the Feds that are after him since he got out of the country before the cops could get him. I've had my phone tapped and had Feds knocking on my door, but they got no info about him from me, because my father was like a god damn international spy by the way he lived and behaved and was very cryptic when he spoke to me on the phone. Last I knew he was in Fiji and was building some huge project that was going to hire about 4,000 people. I haven't heard from him in a few years, so I don't even know if he's dead or alive. I had some good times growing up though, especially when he built a 3 story 10 bedroom home, I was in my teens and lived in that house by myself, while my father lived and worked in Sydney. I was living on my own at 14yrs of age. I guess you could say I'm a Gen-X latchkey kid on steroids hahaha. My group of school mates had a lot of fun in that big house haha.
Did not know about this. Great share/reaction 😅
I was at the the university and watched the helicopter land. I remember we all thought it was weird. I'm pretty sure it was actually on the grounds, but that area was all grassland, so kind of hard to tell. It was kinda cool to find out later we saw part of a prison escape
Everybody knows that librarians are really secret James Bond villains after the library closes. They are all bad *ss secret agent types using guns and guile to go in guns blazing to conduct covert operations...
At least, that is what they imagine as they sip their Milo with a good book before bed. Lucy just took it one step further.
Bass Hill tourist park is one suburb away from the airport where the helicopter was hijacked and about 20 mins from Silverwater jail.
Oh wow I remember this incident. The couple were crazy. It was never going to work long term.
Ryan, you must look up Eureka Stockade, that mad incident shows how the Australian Spirit of Independence and the Mateship started! Omg, they were around just near me but I've never heard this story, Lucy definitely got off too easy! Ned Kelly's hanging was a serious injustice compared to these two! 😠
sorry, but Ned kelly was no innocent. he should not have been executed but back then Australia had executions. He deserved to be in jail for life but not executed. You do the crime, you do the time. He was a criminal, no ifs or but about it.
Yes, Ned Kelly was an injustice. His capture was justice.
Went 2 jail when I was 19.lucy dudko was a legend. Her name was on the wall in every cell.spelling was optional.
I do remember this prison escape it was all over the news services
Thanks. Great video. 👍 😂
Glad you aren't a judge Ryan!
Ryan.. also consider all the people he robbed of their life savings.. destroying their lives…. Even if he didn’t physically assault them.. but he’s destroyed their lives … its very sad 💔
If you get the time, look up Brendon Abbott aka the Postcard Bandit. Aussie guy who did his fair share of prison escapes.
New South Wales abolished the death penalty for murder in 1955, and for all crimes in 1985. In 2010, the Commonwealth Parliament passed legislation prohibiting the re-establishment of capital punishment by any state or territory.[1] Australian law prohibits the extradition or deportation of a prisoner to another jurisdiction if they could be sentenced to death for any crime.[2]And the last person executed was in 1967.
There is a 2 tiered justice system here Ryan. Women seldom get sentenced as long as a man would.
I've been watching your toys grow and grow, they are piling up.
I remember when this happened! I thought it was so romantic 😊 one of them died very recently, but can’t remember which one.
They are both still alive. John is 81-ish, and Lucy is 65.
It wasn't really romantic. They didn't end up together. She was an idiot.
@@artistjoh thanks - I I must have it confused with something else.
@@chrissy1510 Lucy lives in the Penrith area. Don't know where John lives. For many years Killick was forbidden to have any contact with Lucy by court order. He is now permitted to communicate with her, but apparently has to get permission from his parole officer before he does so.
February 1967, Ronald Ryan was hanged at Pentridge Prison. This started a debate which led to the abolition of the death penalty in Australia. There's still people who believe him innocent of the murder charge but the Victorian premier Henry Bolte was determined that he would hang.
I remember it well...They used to call him Pig Bolte.......
He’s a tough, super smart bloke, for sure. In a war he’d had have scary as. Broken heart = gambling. Glad he changed, 12 Step program perhaps? Going to subscribe to the channel now. Have a good one.
You have to fix the sound. Your voice is loud and clear but the video sound is very low and soft, I have to turn my head phones way up and when you talk you shout
Hey there Ryan, maybe look up Moondyne Joe and the Catalpa escape where the escapees ended up in the US
I dont know how it is in the US, but in AU, the penalty for pulling a real, loaded and ready to fire weapon, and pulling a plastic toy and pretending it to be ready to fire is exactly the same crime. Its the intent to threaten that is the crime. of course, if you have an actual handgun, there will be possession of a weapon, ammunition, etc. but a painted water squirting pistol can get you done for assault with a deadly weapon.
BTW, Ryan, paying the pilot would have made him an accomplice and deserving of a prison sentence himself!
The last execution was on February 3 1967
That was a heavy sentence at that time.
it's a tad bigger Prison island than Alcatraz.
John Killick is interviewed by Andrew Hamilton (ex of YeahMad) on his Shits Gone Sideways podcast. Simple YT search will find it.
It should be noted that it is illegal for police or prison gaurds to shoot at aircraft.
ahh the good old 'I've become a born again Christian in prison can I be paroled please?'
Nobody said that she was paroled for that reason.
good reaction
Dolt
My brother learnt to fly in that helicopter.
Watch Chopper with Eric Banner
You mentioned the Silk Road and my mind went to Marco Polo because he was the most famous Westerner to use it. But I didn’t understand what you were talking about so I stopped and did some research. The Silk Road you referred to was a website on the dark web. That’s not a place I have ever been nor desire to see. The actual Silk Road began in 138BC and is way more interesting than any dark website.
This prison escape is peanuts . Follow the story of Vassilis Palaiokostas . That's a really badass guy who since he escaped by helicopter twice hasn't been caught after the second time. A real Robin Hood, keeping a small amount of the ransom money and the rest he spread it around helping poor farmers. Every getaway car he stole he always left money in the glove compartment of the car .There is a reward for 1 million euros.
Nobody has ever called the authorities for his whereabouts.
10 yrs...hope he was worth it!
I’m so surprised she got 10 years when the mug who murdered my sister only got 8 years. Apparently some lives aren’t worth much.
@@cherylemaybury9967
The system is shit, it’s not right, how can you take a life & be out in less than 20 is bullshit!
My condolences to you & your family xo
MRRC Holker Street is all security holds maximum security inmates the oval the chopper landed on does not exist anymore there are new buildings where the oval used to be the chopper landed at the Sydney Olympic Park end
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I wish my girlfriend was like Lucy.
He can't make profits on these books. Australian laws prevent criminals making profit on their crimes. Proceeds would I think go to victims of crime but not sure.
What about the idiot tower guard that let loose a clip from his rifle at the helicopter…
I'm sorry to say, but I think this title is extremely exaggerated, The most legendary prison escape of all time?! 🤣 Maybe in Australia! 🤷🏻♂️✌🏼
this event was copied off a CHARLES BRONSON MOVIE
I take it that Ryan is now a fully paid up member of the Fwit's Fan Club? This is close to your worst effort ever. Any consideration for the pilot and people in the Bank when "warning" shots fired who probably suffered lifelong trauma? You have just been granted membership of the Septic Club Ryan.
Way too many stops and starts Ryan, come on you should know better
come on you should know better? - oh ffsake piss off
I was a prisoner in this exact wing of the jail when it happened, we got locked down in our cells for 3 weeks after that! Oh & you get 7 years extra on your prison sentence + whatever time you had left of your current sentence, Chick's love a bad boy bro!!!!! Oh & it was Silverwater prison, it has minimum & maximum security at the time, its now sowley a minimum security prison these days
I met John Killick a few times not the smartest man i ever met. Very quiet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_David_Roberts its a good read and all that but...
Death penalty was last used in 1966. Ronald ryan