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Confronted at the carwash: 73-year-old denies cold case murder · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. The husband of a pregnant mother
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  Speaker 1: killed with rat poison almost forty years ago says he
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with her death. The Australian's Liam
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  Speaker 1: Mendez approached Ray McQueen at a car wash on Melbourne's
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  Speaker 1: outskirts as The Australian launches up blockbuster new podcast investigation
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  Speaker 1: The Poisoned Wife.
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  Speaker 2: Did you kill Roslin?
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  Speaker 3: No? I did not?
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  Speaker 1: The podcast, created by The Australian's National Chief correspondent Hedley Thomas,
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  Speaker 1: investigates the death of thirty year old Roslin McQueen in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, when she was pregnant with a baby
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  Speaker 1: boy and had a toddler playing at her feet. Police
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  Speaker 1: suspected Roslin's husband, Ray McQueen, laced her medication with strychnine
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  Speaker 1: so he could pursue a relationship with the family's teenage babysitter.
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  Speaker 1: He was charged with murder, but the matter never proceeded
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  Speaker 1: to try. McQueen is now seventy three, and also denied
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  Speaker 1: the account of the former babysitter, donnoman Aleck. She told
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  Speaker 1: police that you kissed. Did you kiss your babysitter? No,
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  Speaker 1: she was never ever my babysitter.
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  Speaker 2: She did babysit for my wife.
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  Speaker 1: She was never ever my babyshitter. You can watch the
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  Speaker 1: full video of Lim's encounter with Ray McQueen right now
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  Speaker 1: on the Australians app and at the Poisoned Wife dot com.
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  Speaker 1: the show now wherever you listen. Anthony Albanezi has finally
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  Speaker 1: admitted he shouldn't have appeared on a podcast called Bush Deep,
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  Speaker 1: where he appeared to make crude jokes about the Japanese
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and popstar Kylie Minogue.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I learned that I need to do better every
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  Speaker 2: day and of course if I haven't the time again,
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  Speaker 2: which you don't, then I wouldn't have done that podcast.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we have a view which is trying to
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  Speaker 2: talk to as many people as possible, but clearly that
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  Speaker 2: was an error.
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  Speaker 1: The Sydney Swans have denied claims by two exotic dancers
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  Speaker 1: that so called club leaders were present in the hotel
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  Speaker 1: room where an alleged sexual assault took place over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: The Swans said in a statement. Five players who have
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  Speaker 1: been suspended for the rest of the year were the
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  Speaker 1: only club members in the room at the Pullman Hotel
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  Speaker 1: in East Melbourne. Chad Warner, Riley Bys, Isaackeiney, James Jordan
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  Speaker 1: and Nick Blakey reportedly hired the women through an agency
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  Speaker 1: called The Party Girls Melbourne in the early hours of
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning, following the Swan's win over Essendon at the
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  Speaker 1: MCG on Sunday. One of the women alleged she was
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  Speaker 1: inappropriately touched and said her personal boundaries had been crossed.
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  Speaker 1: Andy Swan's coach Dean Cox at a press conference on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: You've named the five players doin this speculation just of.
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  Speaker 3: How many people were in the room and were there
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  Speaker 3: any other Swans officials in the room? Why do you
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  Speaker 3: as you part of as part of the investigation. I'm
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  Speaker 3: unaware of that and it is an investigation. We have
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  Speaker 3: to let the police do their job and work for it,
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  Speaker 3: think can you That's so that's what we need to do.
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  Speaker 3: That's that way we have to do that. But that's
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  Speaker 3: the thing that you were not a remnant native. I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't in the room, but that's it's a question of fact.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a matter for a police investigator.
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  Speaker 1: The woman, who has not been identified, told the Herald
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  Speaker 1: Son she doesn't want money from the club, but said
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  Speaker 1: she wants justice. Victoria Police's sex crimes squad are investigating.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody has been charged and the Swan's players have denied
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  Speaker 1: any wrongdoing. Check out those stories live right now at
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