Deborah and Andy Dunt won $50,000 on reality TV show Hunted, avoiding capture for 20 days

Deborah Dunt spent 20 days avoiding capture on Ten’s reality show Hunted, but her father, notorious safecracker Barry Goode, did it for real over 50 years ago after robbing a TAB.

Deborah and Andy Dunt on the Channel 10 reality show Hunted. Picture: Channel 10

Adelaide’s Deborah Dunt knows her father would be filled with pride after she was the last woman standing on Ten’s reality show Hunted.

The series sees contestants complete a million-dollar bank heist before trying to avoid capture for 20 days – a task which was part of daily life for Ms Dunt’s father, notorious criminal safecracker Barry Goode.

Ms Dunt, an event co-ordinator, and her husband, firefighter Andy, were the only team to make it to the finish line, with Andy securing the couple just over $50,000 in prizemoney by avoiding the hunters right to the end.

“I know he (Barry) would be so proud that we were the only team to make it to extraction and that I was the last girl standing at the end,” she said.

“He would be grinning from ear to ear watching Andy jump in that boat and sail away with the money.”

Deborah’s father Barry Goode was a notorious criminal who avoided police after a robbery. Picture: Channel 10

Best known for committing SA’s first armed TAB robbery more than 50 years ago, Mr Goode spent much of his life on the run from police.

He successfully evaded police over the years, but also spent time behind bars at jails around the country including Long Bay, Fremantle Prison and the old Adelaide Gaol.

After the Unley TAB robbery in the early 1970s, he was sent to Yatala Labour Prison where he was incarcerated for four and a half years.

“Dad and I were always super close, growing up wherever he went, I would follow. I loved listening to his stories of life on the run and all the close shaves he had before eventually getting caught,” Ms Dunt said.

“I never thought I would ever have the chance to see what life on the run was like.

“He would always say to me, ‘We’re thick as thieves you and me’. Ironically that’s exactly what we ended up being.”

Mr Goode died in 2017 but not before he rehabilitated himself, finding religion and becoming a pastor.

Ms Dunt said her father would have had a “good laugh” watching her on the program.

“He wasn’t here to see me on the run but I know he would have loved me doing this. He would have had so many tips and tricks to tell me,” she said.

Mr Goode also wrote a best-selling memoir about his life, Too Tough For Tears, which was released in 1982. At once stage, the book was set to be turned into a $1.5m film starring Mel Gibson in the lead role.

After 20 days of stress, Mr Dunt said he was relieved to see all their hard work pay off.

“At the end of the day it was all the amazing people who gave up their time and resources to help us along the way. We could not have done it without them,” he said.