Murder of Peter Falconio
Event in True Crime
Murder of Peter Falconio has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Georgia HardstarkAmerican writer, TV host, and co-host of My Favorite Murder
Hardstark said the inconsistencies attributed to Lees could all be logically explained.
“All of the inconsistencies on her that they place on her can be explained”
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark: 540 - Battery and Rock Night (Jul 9, 2026) · Listen from 42:35
Hardstark argued that theories implicating Lees distract from the most likely killer, who acted as she described.
“it's just all smoke and mirrors to point away from the person who most likely murdered him in the exact way that she said it happened”
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark: 540 - Battery and Rock Night (Jul 9, 2026) · Listen from 41:27
Hardstark judged that there was more evidence against Murdoch than against Lees, though even that evidence was weak.
“There's more evidence that this guy Murdoch is guilty than she is. And even that is kind of loose”
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark: 540 - Battery and Rock Night (Jul 9, 2026) · Listen from 39:26
Hardstark argued the police investigation was conducted so poorly that any conviction would leave doubts.
“I think that the police investigation, because of the way it was done, first and foremost, made it so that it'd be really hard to convict someone”
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark: 540 - Battery and Rock Night (Jul 9, 2026) · Listen from 39:08
Karen KilgariffAmerican comedian, writer, and co-host of My Favorite Murder
Kilgariff reflected that infidelity plants a lasting source of distrust in a relationship.
“you just put a little time bomb in your future that then tells the person that you care about the most they cannot trust anything you say or do”
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark: 540 - Battery and Rock Night (Jul 9, 2026) · Listen from 38:40
Kilgariff said that while women should be believed, the show had covered women who lied, so Lees's involvement was not impossible.
“it's like believe women always, and yet we have told many stories about women who never stopped lying”
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark: 540 - Battery and Rock Night (Jul 9, 2026) · Listen from 38:23
Kilgariff criticized Lees for emailing her lover in writing while in police custody.
“First of all, can everyone just stop putting things in fucking writing? I mean, seriously”
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark: 540 - Battery and Rock Night (Jul 9, 2026) · Listen from 34:47
Podcasts
Episodes
540 - Battery and Rock NightMy Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
Georgia Hardstark recounts the 2001 Outback murder of Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees's survival, and Karen Kilgariff tells the story of Chilean goalkeeper Roberto Rojas's 1989 faked injury.