On the content: Worst f#ing judge ever. Hope this case haunts him to the grave. The one comfort of this shameful miscarriage of justice is that it shed a light on a horrifying issue that has likely robbed the people of Queensland any reliable form of justice for years, if not over a decade. “Shandee’s Legacy” seems an apt name for the follow ups. It’s almost like she’s a guardian angel for justice itself. Very well told, but INCREASINGLY repetitive (though I do like a long binge, I find myself zoning out for large chunks of time…) Please learn to edit yourself. The repetition is not only between episodes, but within them. For some reason, questions get asked and answered 3-5 times in a single interview, often one right after the other… and we have to sit through the ENTIRE question and the ENTIRE response every. Single. Time. For example (the questions and answers are way more rambling in reality…) A: “with this sort of test you should have a 100% success rate, but they had 52% failure” Q: “so you’re saying they had a 52% fail rate… but it SHOULD be 100%?” A: “Yes. 100% bc (reasons)” Q: “so in 1000 cases of these, how many should be successful?” A: “1000 of them.” Q: “so in other words… 100% success is expected.” A: “yes. Q:” but in this case, they only had 48% success! And you’re saying it SHOULD be 100%. Wow.” And on and on and on…………. Alternatively, we’ll be told what was asked and what the answer was, and then we’ll hear the question get asked, and the answer. Or something we’ve just heard someone say will be explained to us in almost the exact same way. We get it. We heard it the first time. It gets really, really exhausting after a while. I have no idea what’s going on here, why no one is editing any of this down. It makes an otherwise interesting story feel like an absolute slog for hours at a time sometimes.

I’m scared to read as I’m only on episode 4 and I believe the killer is obvious.

Wow! I can not believe judges in Australia can have so much opinion or can infuse their own Defense of a defendant?! I thought the judge did a better job of getting John perros off then his defence lawyer! Isn’t that a biased trial?! This guy should get another trial on the basis that the judge himself biased against the victim! Unbelievable! Shameful!

Hats off to Dr. Wright and the whole team on this podcast standing behind Shandee.

Words could never adequately express my respect and admiration for each person who has had any part of this podcast. Shandee has gone from victim to HERO for countless number of victims in the past, present and future. If not for Shandee, none of these unfathomable things done in the darkness would have ever been brought out into the sunlight for ALL the world to see. It only takes a spark to get a fire going. Shandee was the spark and you all are the fire. My prayer is for justice, restitution, vindication, and that the lawsuit is turned on its head and John Peros is awarded karma instead of money. It is truly an honor to listen to Shandee’s family, Hedley, Dr. Kirsty Wright, Claire, Matthew, David, and all other contributors who have made sure Shandee didn’t die in vain. Amy Minter-Alabama, USA

The creators do understand followed listen to every episode? Why is 85% of the most recent episode recycled material? Feels like a money grab and completely unnecessary.

I have listened for quite awhile to the Lady Vanishes podcast and came across this one in my feed. I’m from the U.S. and not only do I absolutely love your accents but the stories both about Shandee and Marion are fascinating and also sad. I’m hooked. I don’t quite understand Aussie criminal Justice system but I’m sort of digging how you all do things. Great pod!

This is a must listen. Thank you for working so hard to get justice for Shandee. You’ve inspired us all!

Four stars because every week we’re forced to listen to Matthew’s horrendous, irrelevant, self important bloviating. Why we need to listen to this dreary man drawing increasing questionable and flowery parallels that seem to serve only his desire to frame himself as some kind of cultured orator I will never understand. He was at it in the teacher’s trial and he’s only gotten worse since. Reel his excruciating nonsense in, I beg of you.

Headley might’ve gotten a bit too close to the victim’s family in this one. Seems highly likely the accused did it but the state’s lab screwed up and the prosecution took an incredibly weak case to trial instead of holding off and trying to build its case. But Headley basically blames the defense attorney for using the state’s evidence against them and then asking why shaky evidence can be used in questioning witnesses but not used against defendants. Really? It’s the state’s evidence. They are trying to incarcerate the defendant based on their evidence. And it is ludicrous to argue the state wouldn’t have been able to use it if the DNA results came back on the defendant. Sometimes Headley seems incredibly naive. Why would a defense attorney try to mislead the jury to get his client acquitted? The huge holes in the prosecution case included no def DNA, no blood in his car (an impossibility given the crime scene) and the fact that the stabbed was a righty while def is a lefty. Headley tries to cover the righty/lefty thing by having a boxing coach say def was a powerful puncher with both hands. Unless def was a criminal genius and did it on purpose, Occam’s razor theory holds that he would’ve used his predominant hand to stab Shandee. But despite disagreeing with some of what Headley seems to believe I still found it very entertaining and well done.