Case 316
Gilbert Bogle & Margaret Chandler
When the bodies of Doctor Gilbert Bogle and Margaret Chandler were found along the banks of Sydney’s Lane Cove River on New Year’s Day 1963, scandal and suspicion erupted. The two were married – but not to each other – raising immediate questions of foul play.
Yet as investigators peeled back the layers of this bizarre case, they found themselves tangled in a mystery far stranger than anyone had imagined.
CREDITS
EPISODE
Research & writing – Elsha McGill
Creative direction – Milly Raso
Narration – Anonymous Host
MUSIC
‘Flatline intro’ and ‘Come play with me’ intro and outro – www.dl-sounds.com
Audio production – Mike Migas
Scoring – Mike Migas
Audio editing – Anthony Telfer
OTHER
Logo and website design – Paulina Szymanska
PREMIUM
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RESOURCES
BOOKS
So You Think I Did It – Geoffrey Chandler (1969)
Dr Chandler & Mrs Bogle: The Confession – Peter Butt (2023)
NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES
Strychnine hint on riverbank deaths – The Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 3 1963
Who gave the fatal dose? – The Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 6 1963
Coroner visits death scene – The Sydney Morning Herald, May 10 1963
Coroner hears Bogle-Chandler inquest evidence from police sergeant – The Sydney Morning Herald, May 15 1963
Chandler in witness box – The Canberra Times, May 23 1963
Chandler says wife attracted by Bogle – The Canberra Times, May 23 1963
City coroner hears evidence from Geoffrey Chandler at double death inquest – The Sydney Morning Herald, May 23 1963
Eight witnesses give evidence as end of Bogle-Chandler inquest nears – The Sydney Morning Heald, May 25 1963
Chandler seen ‘heading West’ – The Canberra Times, May 25 1963
Bogle, Chandler – how they died – The Sydney Morning Herald, May 27 1989
Bogle and Chandler Death by LSD – The Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 20 1996
VIDEOS
Who Killed Dr Bogle & Mrs Chandler?
OTHER
Sydney Push – Wikipedia
Gilbert Stanley Bogle – Australian Dictionary of Biography