The Coffin Confessor

‘ That’ s when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the man in the coffin had a few things to say.’ Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you’ ve never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish – a task you need carried out before you can rest in peace. Now imagine there’ s a man who can take care of all that, who has no respect for the living, who will do anything for the dead. Bill Edgar is the Coffin Confessor – a one-of-a-kind professional, a man on a mission to make good on these last requests on behalf of his soon-to-be-deceased clients. And this is the extraordinary story of how he became that man. Bill has been many things in this life: son of one of Australia’ s most notorious gangsters, homeless street-kid, maximum-security prisoner, hard man, family man, car thief, professional punching bag, philosopher, inventor, private investigator, victim of horrific childhood sexual abuse and an activist fighting to bring down the institutions that let it happen. A survivor. As a little boy, he learned the hard way that society is full of people who fall through the cracks – who die without their stories being told.

Bill Edgar is the one they call ‘ The Coffin Confessor’ - he’ s a successful businessman, counsellor, author and one of Australia’ s leading private detectives, who’ s known for doing what most lawyers, accountants and professionals won’ t, can’ t or fear: speak the truth of those silenced.