40 episodes
Shandee's Story Crime X
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4.4 • 1.6K Ratings
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Shandee Blackburn was brutally murdered as she walked home from work - but this cold-case can still be solved. Gold Walkley-winning journalist Hedley Thomas - who created The Teacher’s Pet and The Night Driver - goes deep to find out who killed Shandee, and why.
Episodes of the podcast first, plus exclusive stories, videos, pictures and extraordinary evidence are available with a subscription through The Australian's app, or at shandee.com.au
To contact Hedley Thomas anonymously with any information on Shandee's Story email here - Shandee@theaustralian.com.au
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Hear Live Lehrmann trial updates
We're covering another huge trial every day on The Australian's daily news podcast The Front.
Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app.
This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet, and edited by Lia Tsamoglou. Original music is composed by Jasper Leak.
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Shandee’s Legacy Episode 14: Closing Ranks
There was no fanfare when Commissioner Annabelle Bennett SC handed down her findings from the Project 13 inquiry.
Only disappointment that the inquiry failed to hold anyone responsible for the biggest disaster in the lab’s history.
In this episode of Shandee’s Legacy, Dr Kirsty Wright joins Hedley Thomas, Claire Harvey, and David Murray to dissect and comment on the findings from this rare second inquiry, the future of a lab at the heart of the criminal justice system, and the case which started all of this: the slaying of Shandee Blackburn in 2013.
To read The Australian's reporting and analysis of the inquiry, search Shandee's Story or visit shandee.com.au.
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Shandee’s Legacy Episode 13: Science Speak
Public hearings in a second inquiry into the lab and the disastrous Project 13 have concluded. Closing submissions have been delivered. And still questions are left unanswered.
Why was the automated process unleashed on precious crime-scene samples? Who wrote the mysterious and damning Project 13 report? And why didn’t the lab’s new boss flag it in the first inquiry?
In this episode, Hedley Thomas, David Murray, and Matthew Condon dissect a baffling week in Brisbane’s Magistrates Court – and what it all means for the investigation into the murder of Shandee Blackburn.
To read The Australian's reporting and analysis of the inquiry, search Shandee's Story or visit shandee.com.au.
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Shandee’s Legacy Episode 12: History Repeating
Public hearings for a rare second inquiry into catastrophic failings at Queensland’s besieged forensics lab are about to get underway in Brisbane.
In this episode of Shandee’s Legacy, Hedley Thomas, David Murray, Claire Harvey, and Matthew Condon drill down into the questions yet to be answered about Project 13: who knew what and when, and why didn’t the lab’s new boss raise it at the first inquiry?
We also get to know the new legal team brought in to lead the new inquiry.
To read The Australian's reporting and analysis of the inquiry, search Shandee's Story or visit shandee.com.au.
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From The Front: Queensland's DNA lab is back under the microscope
The Queensland government will reopen an inquiry into its troubled DNA lab after new evidence of flawed automated testing processes emerged.
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Shandee’s Legacy Episode 11: What Linzi Left Out
A cloud has been cast over the new chief of the lab following revelations that a DNA extraction method may have failed across thousands of samples in criminal cases for nine years.
Professor Linzi Wilson-Wilde reviewed the automated method for retired judge Walter Sofronoff’s inquiry into the lab in 2022, but in her subsequent report did not mention information that she came across showing it was having serious problems recovering DNA.
In this episode, Professor Wilson-Wilde launches a staunch defence of her report for the inquiry, saying she was engaged to examine a separate issue of the method contaminating crime scene samples soon after its introduction in 2007.
To read The Australian's reporting and analysis of the inquiry, search Shandee's Story or visit shandee.com.au.
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Customer Reviews
Great work until…. Episode 11
This has been a great podcast along with Shandees story with such detailed investigation and analysis which resulted in such historic change in QLD. But your pursuit of Dr Linzi Wilson-Wilde in episode 11 was an absolute overreach and your play with semantics was beneath the team that has put this great series together. Really do not see why this had to be written and recorded unless you just wanted to keep the clicks coming. You can do better.
Season 1 was good…
I was looking forwards to season 2 to learn more about Shandee’s Legacy, but I’m only up to episode 2 and wondering what’s going on. Snippets from Austin powers, and the Clinton musical, and backstory about the ten tenors? I’m not sure if you get more revenue for episodes over 1 hour but that’s what it feels like. Not sure if I’ll make it through or just go straight to reading the commission findings for myself.
Heartbreaking
Amazing insight into the prosecution short comings of John Peros in the murder of Shandee Blackburn. The amount of unheard evidence and testimonies in his trial is staggering and makes it no surprise that when the evidence was presented in full in the coronial inquest the coroner gave the findings that John really was the person who murdered her. How come perpetrators can be awarded a new trial if they can prove they had inadequate legal representation but victims can not get a retrial when it’s been proved their case was not given adequate police prosecution? This case was not trialed comprehensively and fairly and therefore justice had no chance of being served. This case needs a retrial for the preservation of our judicial systems integrity and the trust the community deserves to have in it. If this was a minor incident maybe we could just accept the defendant got lucky but we are talking about a brutal unprovoked murder of a young woman. If a coroner can make the conclusion that the murderer can be proven it’s unbelievable that the offender gets to walk the streets a free man because he had the money to have the best legal team and he came up against a very average prosecution.