Paddy Moriarty, the missing man and the meat pie feud EPISODE 3 | A Dog Act
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- EPISODE 3 Feuds over meat pies and rival tourism ventures swirl around Larrimah. Residents that live within a few blocks don't speak. Hatreds run deep. Is there any link between these disagreements and Paddy Moriarty's disappearance?
Here, 10 residents live within spitting distance of each other on a featureless stretch in Australia's remote outback, 500 kilometres down the Stuart Highway from Darwin.
But almost two years on from the day locals first raised the alarm, the disappearance of Larrimah man Paddy Moriarty, 70, and his kelpie Kellie remains a disturbing mystery.
Despite extensive searches, public appeals and a coronial inquest, police appear no closer to unravelling the truth.
Larrimah - already a dysfunctional tangle of disputes and disagreements - is now in a state of disarray.
Long-time local publican Barry Sharpe has sold his Pink Panther-themed watering hole, along with his large pet saltwater crocodile Sneeky Sam.
Up the highway, the Devonshire tea house advertising scones along with buffalo and camel pies remains open, but proprietor Fran Hodgetts says the last year has taken a devastating toll on her health and her business.
There are others contemplating a "permanent break".
Two years ago one man and his dog vanished. But almost all of Larrimah, as it exists now, could be swallowed up in the wake.
Police have interviewed every resident. All say they had nothing to do with Paddy's disappearance.
There are persons of interest being investigated outside of Larrimah.
Each resident has their own theory about what may have happened.
Lead investigator Detective Sergeant Matt Allen is treating it as an unsolved homicide.
While he can't completely rule out misadventure he feels compelled to consider the "worst-case scenario."
"Somebody out there knows what happened to Paddy and Kellie," he said.
"It's difficult for people to keep secrets; often they want to tell someone."
Foul play
There are a lot of ways to go missing in the outback.
Larrimah's remaining residents have had plenty of time to mull them over.
"Wild pigs. Dingoes … crocodiles. There's plenty of ways to get rid of a body, isn't there?" mused the oldest local, Len Hodson, 82.
Such disappearances aren't unknown in the NT - the Stuart Highway fairly vibrates with stories of murder and mayhem.
"It's been going on for years where people have just disappeared off the face of the earth and no one's got an explanation for it," said Larrimah man Barry Burke, who goes by the nickname "Cookie."
According to then-bartender Richard Simpson and other witness accounts, the Irish-born pensioner spent the afternoon of December 16, 2017 at the Pink Panther Hotel.
It's estimated Paddy drank about 10 mid-strength beers over a number of sweltering hours, just a couple of cans above his daily average.
As the sun was setting, he fired up his red quad bike and departed, his kelpie riding shotgun.
A few hundred metres from the pub, in his own home, police say evidence confirms Paddy microwaved some leftover chicken for his kelpie and prepared some frozen dim sims for himself.
And then, with no sign of a struggle or suggestion of a planned exit, the man and his red dog were gone.
If there's one thing that unites the estranged residents of this place, it's that they all believe Paddy is dead, most probably killed.
Why are they so convinced there's been foul play?
To understand that, you have to understand Paddy Moriarty.
And you need to understand an isolated spot where emotions run high, feuds run long, and personalities are larger than life.
Until they're not.
And when something goes wrong, it can go wrong on a spectacular scale.
As publican Barry Sharpe puts it: "10 people live in this town; to my way of thinking, one of them's a murderer."
If you can assist police with their inquiries, please contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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I don't think I would buy a pie anywhere in Larrimah. They obviously don't have a local public health inspector. Better to drive to Darwin or Alice!
Bob Marshall , what about if you’re feeling peckish?
It’s closed now
@@thatonethisone5904 it is??
@@thatonethisone5904 what happened?
@@jaysonfuentes2315 Errr probably COVID .. 🤦♀️🙄 hello, use your common sense.
God there's so many stupid people in the world.. it's sad 😓.
Seriously you couldn't figure that out for yourself? Or did you forget the pandemic?? Jesus Christ
I baked you a pie
Oh boy what flavour
Paddy
Wait what
Lol..
Oh hell nawww 😂
Oh yeah yeah
Either baked into a pie or the croc, but wouldn't someone in the little town have heard something, maybe a commotion or the dog barking.
Nice asdfmovie reference 🤣
When Fran.said Owen never left her place and he had a temper that is a red flag. How could she know he never left?
How would she actually? Not to mention She was mostly the only person who disliked him a LOT. And it explains why she would bake him into a pie. There was no evidence where he went but the others didn’t have anything against Owen.
Her 'groundskeeper' obviously done Paddy to shut her up. Maybe she didn't know 😉
Their was resent proof of him talking about how he bet him with a hammer and then killed his dog
She knows
@@davepowell7168she bred the hate. Maybe he did it to impress.
The obvious guilty person is the only local that attended the courtroom needing to have a lawyer present,pretty obvious where to start the investigation.
Two people are guilty here. One who passionately hated and bred this hate - and the other who was employed by the hatred
i know. @greed. why get @ l@wyer & be too @fr@id to t@lk? guilty, perh@ps? wh@t is there to hide?
Yeah..she knows.
The pie lady had a issue with him over problems ,Owen and paddy had issues it got out of control and killed him and his dog that's what I believe
Yes Owen must have nailed paddy
Shady looking publican needs passing trade? The place now surprisingly is busier but l found the Paddyburger idea a bit weird, not sure what it said was in it ,tastes like normal hamburger tho
@@davepowell7168anybody seen Netflix? Got a new show about this
This is GOLD
The movie will be awesome 👌
Paddy and dog are in the gator by Owen.
you mean croc
Correct
Those pies ole Fran shela knocks up . Neva seen nuthin like it since i saw grandma bendin down lookin for the soap. JUST SAYIN.
Richard loves the limelight and attention, he’s certainly not cameras shy.
Make a great OZ movie . Fascinating
The guy was a bit of a tosser, and I think a couple of people had a plan and what’s done is done..aren’t most of them passed now or very ill?
The ole pie lady is guilty as sin.
My theory is Fran was in Owens ear..He new people in either side towns and Fran offered the money.
Paddy was creature of habit ( you could tell by his house everything in its place an tidy for single bloke) Came home in evening parked up at home, hat by the seat bit compromised from few beers. Fellas were waiting for him took him an dog out of Larimmar and killed and buiried them both.
Very possible Owen and Fran never left town.. (This would pass a lie detector test as truthful belief )but.. an this is it .
Who did he call ...Did Owen go out to call cops for feeling guilty about the ambush then not , there were 2 calls? Were these kept quiet for the investigation of the case?...Have they been releaded yet ?
You know whos ringing him Everynight now.....Ghostbusters.. Hence the guilty drunken song trying to justify why he was involved to any degree just to release the bottled guilt because it sounds like hes talking in third person.
There must be cameras in neighboring larger towns out there ??
Just my thoughts anyway.
Two things 1) That’s a credible psycho analysis of the circumstances 2) those camel pies look proper shit
Did they investigate the tourists that gave him a cooked chook? Never was mentioned? And the gardener?
Gardeners know the lay of the land
Gardner was caught singing a song. She bred the poison and he acted on it
Lady and the guy who didn't want to watch at the camera did it.
Yes!
I wonder what happened to the dog as well :/
A quick painless hammer blow
Great movie. Jack Thompson lead roll please.
A fat Margot Robbie as Fran the pie lady.
@@susannamarker2582 She can't make pies
SHE KILLED HIM!!! I know it!
Anyone checked that pond 400m over the back of her fence to the west? There should be another search done!
The one not talking at all in any episode is Owen, even before I heard the voice audio of him literally confessing to murdering paddy and Kellie, he was the only one with an attorney, he’s now moved away free as a bird, he’s got away with bloody murder ffs! If any of these people knew who had done it, or for instance if someone was “involved” (got someone to do it for them) they would of come forward in someway with a story to try claim the 250,000, that is a life changing amount for any of these people.
Fran knows I feel it
She knows. Probably joked about it before it was done.
I've picked out critical evidence from that documentary that nobody is talking about
Do DNA tests in the pies
You don't understand DNA or science. At all. There's no reason to test pies, doofus. Do you have any idea how much blood and evidence there would be?! It would require a butcher shop set up for a start .. do you have any idea how messy it is to slaughter a large animal , let alone the evidence, the blood, the witnesses etc would be overwhelming. You can't hide a crime like THAT LOL. It would stink and there would be Soo much meat and Soo many freezes with human and dog meat in it just to preserve it. The evidence would be insanely overwhelming. I don't even think you comprehend what an enormous job it takes to do that (you need skills and strength too, and in this case running expensive large freezers in 45 celcius heat (heat you can't imagine ) and super secret underground workshop and technology to hide blood of a crime , which bleach can't even always remove ) .. and on top of that it would need a motive to even go to all that work.
It's more logical that at worst, it was a murder or manslaughter and the body of paddy and his poor dog Kellie, were just left in the desert and eaten by birds of prey and bones bleached by the sun. It would be easy to get rid of bodies out there, easily. And better still, you dont run the risk of being caught with a mutilated body and blood bath in your darn house.
So, what do you reckon is more logical? if you wanted to avoid getting caught, which option makes more sense and requires minimal effort (Especially in the heat, which you clearly don't comprehend.. I'm Australian and up north is like hell on earth levels of heat- people die from heat stroke regularly here. you obviously have no idea what the logistics are, aside from the fact Fran is also very daft and no master Mind. She's not Sweeny Todd nor the non-fictional, Herman Mudget HH.Holmes - and this is not an 1800s Victorian city in London or chigaco full of basements and cold storage places and near zero laws, where it's easy to do that stuff. ..nor does she have a basement or the ability to even do anything remotely close to that stupid suggestion.
She can't even spell, and she's 76 years old.... Do you know what it takes to carry a body let alone clean it up?
That should answer your question as to why police know it's a stupid idea- all I listed is a start, let alone how DNA works , and the costs of that (and you need a body/actual flesh /DNA doofus ,plus you wouldnt even know which pie to test it on.. and as I said it's already obvious there's no human meat in those pies because you don't need DNA to confirm this- it's already obvious that Fran doesn't have the capability, skills nor motive to butcher anyone.
They searched the property extensively already which rules the possibility out. So why the heck would they do an expensive, complex DNA test on a random pie?! You wouldn't get anything.
Also , (sorry to make you feel even dafter) You don't even need paddy actual DNA to test for human innards/ organs ... Any human or dog DNA would be detected. And experts can also tell even without dna. I'm not going to go into it more, but my goodness you really don't know much science (nor have common sense) ... I hope I educated Some of you a bit, though! And PS don't ever bother trying to become a detective / any job that requires much thinking- in all honesty ... It's not your thing 🙄😐✌️
Basically you don't need a DNA test , if someone was hacking up humans on the property , the evidence would be so overwhelming and impossible to hide (you don't know how messy and difficult chopping up and storing bodies are I take it/ you have no common sense...there would be freezers full of human organs and flesh for a start.. ) which would be stupid to do as it would incriminate oneself.
Basically , any normal IQ person let alone intelligent people could see that there's no evidence of such things so why the hell would you test the pie? When in reality he is likely buried in the desert and then eaten by wild animals, which is by far the easiest and best way to rid a body- and that's why they can't find him or Kellie.
DUH.
If paddy was sitting hung upsidedown in a slaughter house (which you would need to actually butcher a body that size.. and you'd need to have those skills, tools and the strength too.. oh and ability to hide it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣) , there wouldn't be a mystery would there?!
He's not in the pies , doofus. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
The pie thing was a dark joke, dark humour. You would be laughed at to even suggest it . Obviously he's not ACTUALLY IN THE PIES. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ Wow. I'm stunned at the stupidity, really.
Btw she already said they inspected the meat. Like I said. No need to DNA test PIES.
I think they tested the pies from memory 🧐
he ate paddy in the "camel" waffle
"Sweeney Todds pies served at her Tea House" lmao, thats great!
Cannibalism? Eating pie out of an old person...unlikely. How often this place gets imported foods?
Did you not hear the man, everything goes in that pie except for magpies 🤮
They made mincemeat out of Paddy.
PADDYBURGERS THREE DOLLARS FIFTY
The saying making mince meat
i guess hes dead with his dog and someone knows something
If he has passed, a psychic could ask him 'who dunnit? ' !!
She probably did do it
Richard got rid of him
Paddy got put into crocodile food by the bar tender not the crazy pie lady.
Oh boy!,I say,this is exactly the kind of news that you wanna be real serious about,I mean,cause it _is_ ,
but somehow the brain automatically kicks into “court gesture” mode in the back of one’s head
Paddy is in her pie.
I agree : ( .
Nah that's Owen
I have to try this recipe
The owner of the pink panther blinks way to much when asked some trigger questions on the interviews iv seen. Everyone blinks normally even the pie lady. Could paddy never of paid his beer tab? Wouldn't surprise me everyone had something to do about it, it's like a movie plot.
Have they checked truck drivers that gone through, did paddy piss off a back packer? A reverse wolf creek style murder?
My intuition NEVER fails me. The bartender is the killer. Poor paddy was fed to the croc.
Nup it was the gardener
A youtuber just brought a video out 6 days ago saying that he has video evidence of a sighting of paddy at the pink panther bar, apparently the pink panther uploaded a promotion video and the opening shots you clearly see paddy sitting down in the bar.
Send me this link or send me a dm
Nooooo this went to the coroner. He’s gone. Ten foot under.
Killed over a pie then turned into paddy pie
I thought immediately that Paddy and his dog might have ended up in Frans pies or fed to the crocodile pet at the back of the pub
Wtf was the face at 09:08 hahahahahahahahhaa
Yeah I didnt like dupers delight either @10:18 she closes her eyes just before.. suspicious to me.
@@johnnyclean8233 Very strange but very funny too 🤣🤣
Would not eat one of those grotty pies if you paid me they look like crap. That woman is a rotton old grub
I wish The Behavior Panel would watch the videos of the interrogations., or at least as many of these interviews as possible. Maybe along the way they can find out who stole Fran’s upper lip!
Most people in the US need a behaviour panel to wipe their **se .Fran is hiding behind that facial retraction covering upper incisor loss. She knows but is protecting herself and the culprit who is a handyman who may have read her mind 😉
Would be interesting 🧐
To many hot pies
The gardener of Frans is very suspicious
took me 9 minutes and 34 seconds to identify the culprit.
Tried to get a pie from Fran last week in our travels but the place was all locked up. Paddy sounds like a bloody trouble maker
He obviously had a special roadkill recipe so the whole town did for him to get it. I agree with you, a bludger lying about his age
Lucky you didn’t you might have been eating something else 😂
I reckon they should do a lie detector test to see if she did kill paddy, owen was part of it apparently too
A man looking like him with a hat, new grayishbrownish hat Republic type with a grayish dark costum jacket and blue jinks I saw two days ago Sunday that past in McDonald store in Brooklyn NY, with accompanion a little boy...asking to go to a cemetery,..do you have someone to take care of you the boy ask yes the man says a nieace, no a nephew...strange it stays in my mind and I saw this similarity...if the police check those camera in that McDonald store second floor may identify the man...86st between 4th and 5th ave in Brooklyn, New York, Bay Ridge area...I remember and one thing in the left hand on the pinky finger had two rings one was with flat oval shape on top, and next was a simple circle one holding the first in place because was a little loose on his thin finger...he was looking to go to cemetery even to meet with wife or the wife was buried there it wasn’t so clear what he was saying because he was mumbling and not clear for me to hear why, I think the boy asked him why he was going there and he was getting excuses so the boy can accompany him...on Dec 16,2019 Sunday or Monday one of these days, ...they can check the camera since there looks like they have camera in corner or more...
How did Fran know paddy was hit with a claw hammer on yhe nose when her lawyer was reading Owens song to her ?
I baked you a pie oh boy what flavor pie pie pie
maybe paddy was depressed and took a long walk into the wasteland and disappeared.
Nup
Meanies 🤬
Owen her helping hand made pies from him lol
Sing a song of murder / Boy how they all lie / Paddy Moriarty 's been baked in a pie / When the pie was opened / I thought I had a log / But when I took a closer look / It was Paddy's bloody dog ! Sing along to the Sing A Song Of Sixpence.
1/the guy with the gator killed him and fed him to the gator..2/the old lady had owen call him outside and the guy killed the dog and paddy and fed him to the gator..3/some vehicle passing through stopped him wanting his quad..killed him and the dog,threw them in the bush..came back later and got his quad..was the quad at his house? I also thought a dingo got him, but i lean more to the gator..he could eat paddy and the dog in a few minutes.h3ll they all seem suspiciuos to me..a conspiracy?
Is the quad missing
the quad was parked at Paddys place
I just feel very bad for the old woman if it’s really not her, just think about it. You got accused of murder, let alone, people suspect that you’re pie meat is a human. If this become a cold case then, her business will surely be going downhill. Because no one will buy her food anymore.
Without a free range organic human flavor vegeburger on her menu perhaps she was normally using roadkill?
Maybe a witeness and was relocated over night. Not much is known about him in his early years
somebody knows something ?????
They all laughing about paddy story are these people having any empathy and paddy was a happy man
We sell pies we only have one flavour.....paddy
5:21 reason for his disappearance I guess
*5:18
Owen arrives in 2017 and is employed by Fran who could talk a person like that into anything so Paddy is dead by the end of the year, and where others believe Paddy is dead she keeps going on with I had nothing to do with it, sounds guilty to me, but where is the body my money is on the croc and the publican having something to do with covering it up.
They need to get spirit box in and tools like that I bet he's spirit is still in his home with spirit of his poor beautiful dog mabe the traveler was paid to give him chicken with poison to kill him then they took him out and dispose of him and dogs body did they check chicken for poison
Maybe the crocodile ate Paddy and his dog ! ?
they should find paddy’s dna and see if it matches in each pie or in the pies
That is the dumbest comment I read all day lmao
kaboom ;-;
i know it!s too late but idk
@@Mx.zz05 that's ok lol. Thanks for being graceful about my rant! Lol. ✌️👍.. but yeah.. turns out they tested and inspected the meat anyhow and no human to be found.
Ockhams razor and easiest explain.. I think Owen and him clashed that night and Owen got rid of him in the outback, which would be extremely easy to get away with and impossible to find a body after time and the animals have gotten to it and scattered it throughout the desert... Sadly :(
Looks nasty
I think ‘ol Paddy had a heart attack somewhere in the bush. Dogs will sometimes just sit with an owner who’s had a medical event and not leave. Dog probably died from starvation, dehydration or exposure......who knows. There is so much open land, there is no way searchers could cover it all. Paddy and his dogs body were picked apart by scavenger. That or someone killed them both and buried them😂
Nonsense, that would presume he did an unusual thing and went driving in the dark, not a habit he was know for, and the night he does it he happens to be so far away ??
except helicopters combed the area throughly, and Paddy left his home with the microwave open with takeout chicken in it (given to him by a tourist), wasn't wearing his glasses, and wasn't wearing his hat (that he *always* wore, being a bald man living in the Devils fryingpan). He was lured out of the house. And the people responsible will never pay for it. Maybe they could do some sort of ground radar thing but i doubt the State would want to pay a bunch of money for that. And they could have driven the bodies far out of the area. Buuut I'm gonna guess these lazy fat people didn't expend much effort disposing poor Paddy. He's buried in that town, probably right near his property.
No
Paddy wouldn't have left his house at that time in the afternoon especially with a guy full of beer he went home and has had a dispute with Owen who lives directly across the road and Owen has nailed him with a hammer.
So, no 4/4? What the hell?
??? Part 4 is there for you to watch
@@thedrugthatkilled Found it, Ty!
@@jesikasmiles9023 you're welcome ☺
I wouldn't be surprised if fran but paddy and his dog through her mincer she had and made him and the dog into pies. Im sure fran put some dodgy meat in those pies probably fresh road kill is my guess
I'm just wondering, is the ABC UA-cam channel just for the fairyfloss news?
Fairyfloss news? Considering the current issues the ABC has to deal with, gross mismanagement and waste of funding. People actually wonder why outsiders often wonder why Australia is inhabited by Bogans and Yobs? Look to ABC UA-cam for the answer!
@@r.murray6549 people often wonder what youtubers often wonder what it is you are saying?
take life less seriously and you'll be a lot happier, pal.
@@lollll9932 did you like your own comment?
@@123fuhfrtgfh yes. i have an iq 2.5 standard deviations above the mean, which means i am equal to about 5 normal people combined, but unfortunately youtube only allows you to like your comment once.
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It's obvious and plain to see that Fran organised his disappearance I've studied human behaviour and she holds back information on the facts but created falsehoods to lead the ds up the good ol garden path 😊