Slaycation: True Crimes, Murders, and Twisted Vacations · Kim Davis, Adam "Tex" Davis, Jerry Kolber; True Crime Podcast

I Left My Heart in Bali

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The pathologist told Byron’s parents that his heart was missing.

1. Slaycation: True Crimes, Murders, and Twisted Vacations follows Byron Haddo’s death in Bali, Indonesia, after a trip that was supposed to be a short getaway with friends. 2. Hosts Adam Tex Davis, Kim, and Jerry Culber frame Byron’s case, with Kim narrating the timeline and Adam and Jerry reacting to the procedural details. 3. The episode asks how a death in a Bali plunge pool became a case about missing organs, delayed communication, and cross-border handling of a body. 4. Byron was 23, from Queensland near Brisbane, and worked in Australia’s mining industry as a FIFO worker, flying in and out of remote underground sites. 5. He was close to his parents, Chantel and Robert Haddo, and they texted almost daily when he told them he was traveling to Bali with friends. 6. The group arrived in Bali on May 22, 2024, and rented a villa just outside Canggu with a plunge pool, rice fields nearby, and regular beach and nightlife plans. 7. Kim describes Bali as a place of volcanic mountains, terraced rice fields, incense, temple offerings, scooters, taxis, and crowded beach clubs. 8. Byron’s trip appeared ordinary at first, with mornings at the beach, afternoons exploring, and nights out for dinner and drinks. 9. The hosts note that messages on Byron’s phone stopped around midnight, and the exact time he returned to the villa is not fully clear. 10. The next morning he was found unresponsive in the plunge pool, and paramedics pronounced him dead on the scene. 11. Early reports said there were no external injuries and no signs of violence, which initially led officials to treat the death as an accident. 12. The family was told the body would be sent home, but communication from Balinese officials and the consular office was described as sporadic and confusing. 13. Four days after the death, an autopsy was performed in Bali without the parents’ consent, despite their request that no autopsy be done there. 14. That autopsy noted bruising, a bloodied nose, alcohol, and an antidepressant, but the coroner could not determine whether the death was accidental, self-inflicted, or criminal. 15. The police were not notified until after the autopsy, and by then the villa had already been cleaned and new guests had moved in. 16. Byron’s parents then requested a second examination in Australia, where doctors recognized inconsistencies that did not fit a simple drowning. 17. During that review, the pathologist told Robert and Chantel that Byron’s heart was missing, and there was no record explaining its removal. 18. Indonesian authorities later said the heart had been retained for a forensic autopsy, while the hospital denied organ theft, sale, or malicious intent. 19. The episode plays as a conversational, reactive true-crime narrative, with repeated interruptions, sponsor breaks, and the hosts pushing each other on the implications of each update. 20. Viewers who follow overseas death investigations, Australian true-crime cases, or family repatriation disputes will get the most from it, while listeners wanting a light vacation story may skip it.

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A vacation death, a late police call, and an autopsy that leaves the cause unresolved.

Set in Bali, the episode follows a vacation death and the family left trying to make sense of it. The strongest stretch is the way it lets the delay, the bruising, and the unanswered questions pile up without losing track of Byron or the people around him.

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