The making of the Bourke Street murderer | Four Corners
James Gargasoulas was a 26-year-old heavy drug user with an extensive criminal record when he drove a car at high speed through central Melbourne killing six people, including a baby boy and a 10-year-old girl.
He was sentenced to life in prison earlier this year for the January 2017 Bourke Street attack.
Despite a guilty verdict there are still outstanding questions about why Gargasoulas was able to carry out such a crime.
Much of the evidence against Gargasoulas has not been seen by the public before. In this painstaking investigation, months in the making, Four Corners reveals troubling failures to catch and hold Gargasoulas.
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When you have a sex worker calling the police to report a psychopath it is probably time to listen.
Poor Angelo, abandoned by his “mother”, non stop abuse from his “father”, and attempted to be murdered by his “brother” and yet appears to be a decent guy.
Moral of the story... calling Dominos pizza would have been more effective than calling the Victorian police in the 9-10 hours prior to Bourke street.
Pathetic how nobody in law enforcement was held accountable 😮
400,000 warning signs and our legal system does nothing
The fact that the police knew everything and didn’t act makes it more horrible
Angelo is PROOF, as I am, that you can be abused most of your childhood with extreme cruelty, but not grow up to hurt people. Angelo is a decent bloke, and Im sorry our system also let him down,just for him having to deal with it.
The incompetence of all the police is unbelievable. Even when he was doing burnouts at the intersection there were 3 unmarked cop cars watching him.
Why wasn’t he locked up for hitting his gf car and causing her so much injury? The law failed that’s why he was able to continue his behavior and kill so many people. When he’s driving like crazy and killing so many people why didn’t they shot those tires out. I’m so frustrated with this!
It is obvious from the documentary that the system miserably failed at every instance possible.
I remember the exact day this happened, I was celebrating my 11th birthday in the city with my family when we heard the commotion from down the street. We had luckily just stopped to get a drink for my sister and just missed going onto the street where the people were killed. A few minutes later we were told what happened exactly and my parents had to sit me and my young sister down and explain the severity of the situation, how we were safe, and that we had to go home. It was traumatizing and even though I wasn't a direct victim of the killings, I still remember those moments like it was yesterday.
I reported a family violence incident at that exact precinct about 3 years ago. Not only did they not take me seriously, but the policeman kept messaging me asking if he could come over after work to check on me. I made a complaint to DHS about my ex as he was a father and I was no longer around to look after his daughter. A policeman from that precinct called me at 11:30pm one night to tell me to leave my ex alone?? I figured they had made friends with him.
I am so glad Angelo survived. He deserves so much better in this life after all that he's been through
How did nobody notice? The guy was completely nuts
The guy on the triple zero call asking 'what does he look like'.
Amazing, he didn't come across someone that'll knock his teeth out and put a good hurt on him.
Damn they could have had him stopped so many times. When he was driving around in circles they looked scared to scratch there cars. Just casually following him down the street?!
This is why drugs need to be treated as a medical problem, not (just) a criminal one. This stuff will keep happening until it’s taken seriously.
So much more information in this program than you have heard before ! He should’ve been stopped wayyyyyyy before he even got near Bourke st . To think a cop was texting him & probably knew what he was about to do is disgusting, basically the cops let this happen 🤬
Great work from ABC news always watch these from Scotland🙏👏👏👍👍