‘The consequences are much greater’: John Silvester on the Easey Street secret he kept

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For years, John Silvester kept a secret.

The Age’s crime columnist knew there had been a significant development in a notorious and long unsolved cold case: the Easey Street murders.

But he didn’t write anything about it, until he broke the story that there had been an arrest after 47 years.

Today, he takes us behind the scenes of the police investigation that led to the dramatic arrest of Perry Kouroumblis in Rome, and why Silvester kept quiet on the case for so long.

You can listen to the episode in full below.