Eavesdropping on Evil details the police hunt for their two colleagues’ killers and the emotion-charged courtroom drama of the two accused. It features the transcripts of secretly taped conversations of a seemingly ordinary outer-suburban Melbourne family – one in which a father talks to his daughter about killing ‘another’ policemen. She calmly suggests committing the murders on the other side of the city.
The hunt for the men who committed Australia’s tenth multiple police killing, when Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller were gunned down in 1998, not only involved remarkable detective work, but included an extraordinary bugging operation. For months, 24 hours a day, what police heard was anything but ordinary. They found themselves eavesdropping on evil people.
