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Christopher
Dale FLANNERY
Disappearance
After the
attempt on his life, Flannery leased an
apartment at the Connaught building, which was
close to the CIB headquarters at that time. On
May 9, 1985, he received a phone call from
Freeman, instructing Flannery to meet him.
Flannery went to the garage but found his new
car would not start. He rushed back to the
apartment to call Freeman, who told him to catch
a taxi.
Flannery then exited the
building and was never seen again. Neddy Smith claims that while
waiting for a taxi, two police detectives Flannery was friendly
with stopped and offered him a lift. Allegedly, Flannery got
into the backseat and at the next set of traffic lights, another
two police officers got into the car on either side of him and
before he could react, the officer in the front seat turned
around and shot Flannery. Flannery's body has never been found
and no one has been charged with his murder.
Coroner's Findings
On June 6, 1997, New South
Wales State Coroner Greg Glass handed down the finding that
Flannery was murdered most probably on or about May 9, 1985.
Glass also found that the key to solving his murder lies with
former detective Roger Rogerson.
Roger Rogerson
On February 22, 2004,
Rogerson told the Sunday program, "Flannery was a
complete pest. The guys up here in Sydney tried to settle him
down. They tried to look after him as best they could, but he
was, I believe, out of control. Maybe it was the Melbourne
instinct coming out of him. He didn't want to do as he was told,
he was out of control, and having overstepped that line, well, I
suppose they said he had to go but I can assure you I had
nothing to do with it."
Flannery is survived by his
wife, Kathleen, and two children. Police have alleged he was
responsible for up to a dozen murders.
Wikipedia.org
Christopher Dale
Flannery
Chris
was born in Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia in 1949; the son of
Edward William and Noelle Mary Flannery; with brother Edward and
sister Erin. He was married to Kathleen, and had two children,
Peter and Christine.
Chris attended St. Joseph's Primary, St.
Joseph's College, West Brunswick State School, Moreland High
School and Brunswick Boy's School, all in the inner northern
suburbs of Melbourne, but left school at the age of 14 to
eventually become a notorious gangster and professional hitman
(nicknamed Mr. Rent-a-Kill) in Melbourne and Sydney.
He was convicted of housebreaking and car
stealing when he was 14 years old; convicted of assaulting
police and carrying firearms when he was 16 years old; served
four years for rape by the age of 19; and was credited by
Australian investigative journalists with at least a dozen
killings although he was never convicted of murder.
Chris worked for some time as a bouncer in
St. Kilda. He was described as flambuoyant and hot-headed, and
was said to have had a macabre sense of humour: at parties at
his family home in Melbourne, a coffin was laid out on the
kitchen table and filled with ice to cool the beer. He moved to
Sydney in 1984 to work as a bodyguard. It was reported that he
sometimes carried a pathology textbook on gunshot wounds which
detailed the effects of bullets fired from pistols and guns.
Chris disappeared on 9th May 1985. His wife
reportedly claimed that he had become cannon fodder in Sydney's
gangland war and that his death was the work of a professional
hitman on a $100,000 contract. A three year judicial inquest
concluded in June 1997 that he had been killed by rival hoodlums
in 1985.
The film "Everynight
... everynight" (1994) is based on his life. Chris is also
portrayed in the two-part ABC film "Blue Murder" (1995).