Launching on LiSTNER right now, Jailbreak is a rollercoaster six-part investigative documentary collection that tells the extremely story of Darko (aka ‘Dougie’) Desic, a broadly profitable weed grower who staged a daring jail escape and remained on the run for many years.
When a neatly dressed man in his 60s walked into Dee Why Police Station in NSW at hand himself in, police had been dumbfounded.
Darko Desic: a jail escapee who was featured on Australia’s Most Needed, and had been on the run from police since busting out from Grafton Jail, utilizing a hacksaw and bolt cutters three a long time earlier. Surviving on little greater than his wits, allure and guile, Darko dodged quite a few hair-raising shut calls over time.
In a six-part podcast documentary collection, award profitable journalist and creator Tim Eliiott takes listeners contained in the extraordinary true story of Darko Desic, informed within the fugutive’s personal phrases. Darko takes listeners again to his arrival to Australia from Yugoslavia, his arrest for rising marijuana, his daring escape from prion, and the way he evaded seize.
Darko labored for among the wealthiest and strongest executives within the Harbour Metropolis. HE was a beloved native in Avalon, but police couldn’t discover him. As soon as detained, the Northern Seashores neighborhood rallied for his launch.
Fascinated by Darko’s story of survival and secrecy (together with how he turned to DIY dentistry with pliers) Elliot tracks Darko down for an in-depth interview to seek out out the reality in regards to the man behind the parable.
Tim Elliot mentioned: “I like escape tales, and after I heard about this fugitive who’d led a double-life, close to the place I stay, I needed to know extra. And I quickly realized the backstory to this mysterious mental recluse went a lot additional than had been reported.”
LiSTNR Head of Factual, Clair Weaver, provides: “Secrets and techniques We Hold: Jailbreak is a wild, rollicking story about an eccentric however lovable anti-hero whose early makes an attempt to fast-track his huge Australian goals land him in jail, till dire circumstances in his homeland drive him to flee. Tim Elliott and the LiSTNR Factual workforce have executed a wonderful job bringing Darko’s story to life in audio for the primary time. This can be a podcast you’re going to wish to inform your folks about.”
Darko’s now vanished once more, leaving Jailbreak as the one, and maybe ultimate, firsthand account of his extraordinary story.
