The Most Bizarre Murders In Oceania's History | Time Travels | Absolute History
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- From calculating killers to merciless victors, in this episode, Tony seeks to answer why some people will stop at nothing to get what they desire. He travels to 1950s New Zealand to uncover what triggered the killing of an innocent victim by a young couple and why the disturbing case captured headlines around the world. Tony investigates a 17th-century Dutch shipwreck off the coast of Australia that caused one man to carry out a hideous crime on an unimaginable scale. Tony reveals the motivations behind the assassination attempt on Governor Arthur Phillip's life, and what the ramifications were for the future of the fledgling Australian colony. Tony journeys to 1930s Adelaide to witness the ruthless and brutal tactic deployed by rival countrymen, which outraged a nation and caused a rift between allies. And Tony goes on the trail of the first camel imported to Australia to understand the terrible deed the beast was found guilty of. These real-life horror stories prove malevolence can take on many guises, but getting away with injustice is much harder than it seems.
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00:00 Parker-Hulme Murder Case
06:42 Batavia Shipwreck Massacre
11:23 Aboriginal Kidnapper
18:12 Camel Shotgun Accident
21:55 Cricket Game Brutality
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Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures is about the Parker/Hulme case and was Kate Winslet's first movie. And Melanie Lynsky's for that matter.
It's so good.
That zoom-in on the camel's face with the crescendo had me dying xD
Thanks for all the great stories. The camel story was hilarious but a sad way for Harry to go. Camels are still a pest in Central Australia. For a bet, my Dad rode in a camel race in the Northern Territory in the 1960's and said it was the scariest thing he'd ever done, and that was saying something because Dad was fearless.
Bodyline tarnished the English reputation in Australia for decades and we all heard it from our parents growing up in the 60s.
So interesting to hear and learn about this “foreign” history. Thank you for sharing
I do love this man’s energy, enthusiasm, and passion for story telling
17:48 I think this story was the weirdest one. Why no retaliation on Philip’s end? Why would they be so willing to negotiate after Philip was attacked? I dunno, maybe I’m a cynic, but colonizers haven’t always been known to be the most understanding people.
Woah WOAH WHAT?? She's Anne Perry?? THE Anne Perry. Holy shit. I did not know this. How did I not know this..??
Tony is just so lovely!🌟
If the woman at 9:44 is married, her husband should take notice of one thing. She was enjoying this reenactment of events just a little too much.😲
The horrible murder that happened in New Zealand that one time, 60 odd years ago. Opens my local paper, laughs, allot. Too bad no Florida edition.
That 🐪 reminds me of Boris from Snatch 🤗
Wait sooo how long did the girls stay in jail they make it seem like they barely served any time at all?! Things definitely are different out of America.
I met one of them at her 70-something birthday party a few years ago. She's a crime novelist who writes historical murder mysteries. If she'd committed that murder, now, she wouldn't be able to walk free. But she lives a very comfortable, happy life, with friends who show up en masse to sing to her. Very strange. I mouthed the words, couldn't make myself sing along.
They both got 5 years in prison.
Insane girls never betray their parents
From what I’ve understood, insanity doesn’t have a machination we may understand, and can change from person to person. Unless I’m missing something.
Camels are a great resource for Milk. Their milk has the most nutritious constitution, as long as it is not pasteurized. Some California farms are invested in Camel's milk.
In watching this it reminds me(especially in light of the govt of Florida where I am) that all it takes is one person for good or for evil
So there's not a doubt in anyone's mind that these girls murdered that woman being a writer yeah that's fine but how the hell do you let a murderer teach school children
Brutal
Soooooo.... where is a murder in the cricket story? Also, the ball that injured Bert Oldfield was not bowled with the use of the bodyline technique.
Tony why did you give Charlie Chaplin an American accent ?
I am not saying what they did was correct Parker and Hume but if they wear to do that today society would not have allowed them to lead a normal life after serving there time with a simple landlord or shop owner able to do a basic and" illegal" full background check. I would like to know mentally what drove them to commit it....was it simple obsession?
Oh boy. Another Sir Anthony video. Like I said before. I'd watch a documentary on how to peel a potato. If it was done by Sir Anthony.
That is all.
50 years before slender man, people
A lot of modern bias involved in this documentary, understandably so, but it is sadly manipulating the factual events of the horrific tragedies of the past. Only when we have an accurate account of the past can we truly understand it, and hopefully prevent repeated mistakes!
We must understand that people in the past had a different understanding of the world, ethics, opinions, and use of violence. I’m in no way saying that anything in the past was remotely correct or excusable, but I do understand we must do a better job explaining the past ways people viewed the world, on all sides involved in conflict, and their ingrained behaviours, and structure of their different societies.
There is a strong desire to judge the past by our current moral standards, but I think this isn’t the best way to teach people about the past. This screws up the actual way both sides of conflicts understood what was happening at the time. We must make sure to separate what are our moral views of the conflicts are now, and how they would have been viewed in the past, all the while making sure we explain to the viewers how unacceptable the actions of people and society were in the past. It gets tricky, but sadly dishonest if we don’t separate how we view the world now vs the past.
I just think it is our responsibility to be very careful when we denounce our societies past behaviour, and be very clear to the viewers/readers when defining what were the factual events and how people of the past may have rationalized their actions, how they viewed the world, how society at the time educated their people about current morals, acceptable politics, religion, and many other aspects of how (in their minds) society should operate. Doing so gives us a much better understanding on which we can ACCURATELY criticize our past, while making sure we are still keeping separating our current moral opinions and those of the past.
Please please please know I’m not trying to excuse any barbaric actions of the past, I just wanna make sure we know exactly when we are projecting our current morals on history, and when we are describing how people at that time would have viewed their actions.
Hope this makes sense. I just don’t like it when documentaries don’t make it clear when we are judging the past by our current morals, and when we are describing the morals of the past.
This is by far not the worst occurrence of this within a documentary, but I still want to point it out. As a Métis I am very interested in my ancestors tragedies and struggles, and want to make sure, I and others get the most accurate account of history! I and others have many reasons to be upset about how our ancestors were treated by society at the time, yet I still want to make sure emotions don’t cloud the true history and our current understanding of it!
Being a douche hurting, killing and exploiting people for one's pleasure and gain was and remains immoral. Just like applying different standards to different individuals depending on their origin, status or gender. Except very often before it wasn't delegalized by religions and legal systems, most of which were created and enforced by the aforementioned killers, abusers and exploiters. People felt pain, hungered and didn't want to die just as much as they don't nowadays. And applying different humanitarian standards to lives and wellbeing of human beings depending on the era of human history is the worst bias there is.
Where ever colonizer went murder, deceit, abuse etc followed. I find it hard to believe there was no retaliation.
Pauline and Juliet committed a ghastly crime, but they did their time and had the sense to stay away from each other forever. I do know that Juliet (now Anne) embraced a Christian faith as well. I’d just as soon leave both women to their private lives.
Not trying to be hateful, but I prefer the female narrator over this fellow....just being honest.
Maybe start your videos out with some solemnity. The topic you're discussing isn't some kind of doctor who scifi story. Overall this is in very poor taste. The glee with which you're discussing the story makes it impossible to watch in entirety.
Tony Robinson has probably done hundreds of documentaries across his career. Maybe his presentation style isn't to your liking?
I think your comment is unfair.
@@rddvls or maybe start your comment with some care for the topic?
@@tropicalennui No one said that there wasn't or isn't any care for this subject or topic. As a society we don't start everything off with "and by the way we do actually care about this topic", wouldn't that feel ingenuine?
People and production companies can still care about topics they present, even if to you it doesn't seem that way.
Just as you think I dont care about this issue because I didnt say so explicitly at the beginning, as you say. I do care, so your assumption is wrong.
I’m with you @Ennui, this is certainly not how many Aboriginal Australians would frame this story. Their voices should be centred in retellings such as this. The excited re-enactments by Tony and other white people made me sick tbh. These events were devastating moments amidst a period of genocide.
Stop getting offended on other people's behalf lmao, is he not doing justice enough by telling their story?