Conviction - The Craig Goozee Story: Recent Episodes
Craig Goozee
This is the story…….. of Sydney’s criminal underworld just before the turn of the century. Mobile phones are the size of bricks, the internet was primitive and social media did not exist. The methods Craig and his team used to investigate could be described as “old school”. Hand’s on investigating resulting in dangerous and sometime amusing close encounters.
This is the story……. of a family battling to adjust to their daughters diagnosis and treatment. It’s an emotional journey with no road map. The highs and lows test the Goozees with surprising results.
This is the story……..of Australia’s most beautiful and unique landscapes. As Craig raises money for Childrens Cancer he undertakes several ultra marathons that feature the oceans and beaches of Eastern Australia and the Deserts and wilderness of Western Australia.
Conviction Based on the book “For One For All”. Author Craig Goozee Development materials by Lauren Clair. Adapted by Three Ring Circus Productions
Craig and his team run a sting operation to arrest a security guard for Conspiracy to Commit an Armed Robbery. He then finds out the reason for his involvement with the informant and feels the pressure of what's to come with a new role.
Hmmmm - you would think once bitten, twice shy. Not in this case. Informant Pete lures in an associate who works as a security guard to assist and plan an Armed Robbery.
Actioned packed: This episode jams in the involvement of new informant "Pete" with three failed armed robberies, an attempted kidnapping and the sad murder of a 34 year old security guard inside a Sydney shopping centre.
After the 5000km marathon across Australia Craig returns to work and finds himself locked out. Things have changed and a new investigation has commenced that involves an informant with a violent past.
Kim Hart (our narrator) continues her Question-and-Answer chat with Craig as they discuss the 34-day marathon in honour of Jessica. Hear about the emotions and physical side of completing a 5000km cycle, paddle and run across Australia.
Kim Hart (our Narrator) sits Craig down to answer questions that our listeners have sent in.
We delve back into the previous series and forshadow the upcoming stories.
Series 4 is in development right now!.... and will be released before the end of 2023.
In this series…… Craig will dive deeper into the Australian crime underworld, as his career takes a surprising twist………. But you will have to wait for Series 4 for all the spinetingling details.
Craig will answer some of the many questions that our listeners have sent to us, as well as delving into some fascinating, behind the scenes information, around all the events of the first 3 Series.
Whether you’re a long time listener, or new to our podcast, be sure to subscribe and follow Conviction: The Craig Goozee Story on your favourite streaming platform….. and look out for our interview special dropping mid September.
The family returns home from a number of holidays and there is a noticeable change in Jessica's health. The episode packs an emotional punch that will hit even the strongest.
Harris and Flack are finally arrested and the start of a paperwork trail begins. Craig uses the normal hours to start some serious training for the upcoming marathon. Jessica finishes her second round of treatment but is required to return to hospital for a small operation. Craig discovers the worst while bathing Jessica and is told that she has 7 tumours now in her lungs. An emotional rollercoaster begins.
While Craig and his team are executing a covert search warrant, an unknown person enters the house. Who is she and what happens when 3 plainclothes officers inside find themselves hiding in a wardrobe. The investigation of Harris, Flack and associates draws to an end when the chance of reprisals outweighs the need for the investigation to continue.
Jessica sets Craig a new challenge to raise money for cancer which is a blend of cycling, running and paddling 5000km's across Australia. Her treatment continues and life goes on both in and out of the hospital. Meanwhile at Craigs work, things take a slight twist with Flack and Harris starting a new safe house. What have they collected and stored in an unknown female's house?????
With the attention to peripheral offenders, Harris is left alone with nothing being said over the phones. His actions change the course of the investigation though, when he arrives at the Drummoyne garage and removes a 25 kilogram drum of pseudoephedrine worth over $250,000. This action sends a snowballing effect within Project Gymea's decision making , as the value of the drug and what it can produce outweighs the necessity to allow further drugs to be distributed. The team come up with an idea that has the criminal syndicate scratching their heads and their course of action appears to be violence. Jessica is back into her routine of hospital treatment and on a day at home asks Craig to do another marathon. Hmmmmm 34 days long. What the heck?.
Enter another 750 kilo's of hashish bricks into the equation, and we get one very full shed in the back of an eighty year old ladies house. Follow the investigation of not only Montgomery and Murchay, new targets, but the eventual hand over of the 75 kilo's to a supplier in Queensland. Back on the home front, Craig is about to receive an award, Lisa calls and delivers devastating news - Jessica has another tumour. The agony every family doesn't want, unfortunately starts again. Specialists, doctors and councillors are all involved in the next development of treatment as Jessica is prepared for surgery.
After a 2am covert search warrant on a garage in Drummoyne, the Gymea team discover the unthinkable. Enough pseudoephedrine to produce approximately 3 tonnes of amphetamines. Also located is an amount of speed, chemicals and firearms. The following days see the list of drugs stored in the garage increase with an additional 75 kilo's added. Flack/Harris later hand over the 75 kilo's to two males who appeared in Pyrmont. What followed was very unexpected.
Craig and Lisa restart their life with the kids back to school and start some renovations of their house. The Commissioner calls a meeting and briefs the team on their newest targets. The targets arise from the notorious criminal, Arthur "Neddy" Smith, who was given life imprisonment in 1990 for murders, armed robberies and drug supply. Glen Flack and Richard "Harry" Harris become the two new targets, suspected of still being linked to some older corrupt police within the NSW service. Both Flack and Harris were arrested with Smith for an attempted armed robbery of a payroll at Botany. After only days of surveillance on these two, police follow Harris back to a property in Drummoyne and find something they never expected.
Without spoiling the story, Craig and the crew find something in a surf club carpark and manage to play another practical joke. The first day out of Coffs Harbour is full of sea life - but not the friendly ones. After every headland, Craig explains the hardship of being a cop in his early days and shares memories that have affected him for life. A beautiful site to some, but smell, sight and touch can play a different role after being in the police for so long. Follow Craig to Day 16 of his marathon and the mark of Jessica finishing her twelve months of treatment. A surprise awaits at the finishing line on day 16.
After the success of Project Gymea's first investigation, Craig buries himself into brief preparation and training for the impending surf ski marathon from Sydney, NSW, to the Gold Coast, Queensland. Follow Craigs journey from an emotional hug and kiss by Jessica on the shores of Avalon Beach to the coastal town of Coffs Harbour. Craig not only encounters sharks, cyclones , but also has a few stories about snakes they came across. Even the non-sports minded will appreciate the endeavour to achieve and the willingness to push the body past a point of pain.
After the first batch of drugs are returned from the bush drug lab, Operation Gymea implements a plan to see if corrupt police are "Greenlighting" Kalache. All hell breaks loose in the Kalache camp with Les stating, "It's a wave of terror". Dave Parker needs a drug supply, so takes it upon himself to sort a large amount of ecstasy tablets, but has no idea this will be his last for some time. The nine month operation starts to draw to an end.
A new member has entered Kalache's team for the proposed drug production. Craig and his team discover the lab site in dense bushland north of Sydney and the covert operation is almost uncovered by a neighbouring dog!!!!!!!! Jessica continues her treatment and is amused by a practical trick played on her favourite nurse, Alice. The first drug production is complete, but why don't the police enter and arrest with all the evidence on-site??
Why was Detective Sergeant Bob Irwin in a drug suppliers unit receiving money????
As Kalache starts to run short of supply, he takes it upon himself to hunt out pseudoephedrine in the most unconventional way. This turns our police into garbage collectors and in addition places Craig into a garbage bin for safety.
As the proposed surf ski marathon draws nearer the training intensifies in testing conditions.
"WTF!!! , there is a shark directly in front of me. Whatever you do, just don't panic... don't panic!... don't panic!!!!!!"
Craig begins his training for the proposed marathon paddle but along the way encounters sessions that prepare him well for what's ahead.
Meanwhile at Kalache's its full business of drug supply ... with the occasional visit of females to the tender tune of Barry White.
The end of the episode ends with a twist that is totally unexpected.
Why would anyone wish to paddle a surf ski 1000km in the open ocean? An idea Craig comes up with to raise funds for sick children while Jessica starts 12 months of treatment at the Sydney Children's Hospital.
Craig's newly appointed position turns out to be investigating organised crime syndicates that are suspected to be involved with Police Corruption.
Enter Les Kalache, a convicted heroin dealer and believed associate of Police.
The story now has a blend of crime, family and sport and is just getting started.
Craig and wife Lisa receive the worst news possible as a parent, "Your child has cancer". Jessica, their eldest child, is diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer called Ewing Sarcoma at the tender age of 7 yrs.
At the same time, Craig is thrust into a secretive unit of the Police Force created by the newly appointed Commissioner of Police - and import from the UK - Peter Ryan.
An episode of emotions and stepping into the unknown with both work and family.
When gangland killing erupted in the streets of Melbourne, some opted to leave and take their criminal business to Sydney.
Craig is seconded to the State Major Incident Group to surveil and investigate the involvement of Gary Fransisco and Bill Tracey with the production of methamphetamines in the rural setting of the Southern Highlands of Sydney.
Listeners will be taken behind the scenes and experience not only the investigation, but the secret world of surveillance as a plain clothes officer.
Arresting a sexual predator is one thing, but to watch him prey on innocent woman for over a month is another.
Craig Goozee, policeman and father of three, shares a rare insight into the antics of the North Shore Rapist, Graham James Kay.
No matter your age or gender, this chilling true crime tale will have you captivated.