Shandee's Story
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Shandee's Story
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 f...
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43 টি এপিসোডFrom The Front: Roger Rogerson’s first kill? The mystery of ‘Shotgun Johnny’ Regan
The 1974 murder of ‘Shotgun Johnny’ Regan has never been solved. Now, his family wants answers. That’s where The Australian’s new cold case investigat...
From The Front: John Peros defamation case dismissed
In this episode of our daily news podcast, a QLD Supreme Court judge dismisses the defamation action brought against The Australian by the man acquitt...
From The Front: Can journalists call someone a murderer?
A defamation case sparked by the Shandee’s Story podcast poses the question: can journalists publish evidence that calls a court finding into doubt? <...
From The Front: John Peros v The Australian
From our daily news podcast The Front, John Peros' defamation action against Hedley Thomas, Shannah Blackburn and the publishers of The Australian.
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 i...
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 ques...
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.
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.
Fin...
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...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 10: Project 13
Dr Kirsty Wright is the remarkable scientist who exposed the worst forensics disaster in Australia’s history, and now she’s identified the ‘smoking gu...
It's back: The Teacher's Pet returns for Australian listeners
The Australian's global smash-hit podcast Teacher's Pet returns for Australian audiences on July 1.
You can find it wherever you got this podcas...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 9: Consequences
Will anyone face criminal charges for the disaster at the laboratory?
We examine more of Walter Sofronoff’s findings about how this catastrophe...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 8: Astounded
At last, Commissioner Walter Sofronoff hands down his 500-plus-page report -- and it is a sweeping denunciation of the laboratory’s failings, and of t...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 7: Freedom Day
It’s the final week of public hearings in the explosive inquiry into a broken DNA lab and we’re all here because of one person -- Shandee Blackburn. T...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 6: Disney Villain
In the harsh spotlight of the inquiry, lab boss Cathie Allen admits to absolutely nothing, tearfully insisting she always acted with the best intentio...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 5: Blowtorch
The big guns from the DNA lab - Lara Keller, Justin Howes and Cathie Allen - are rolled into the formal inquiry and subjected to withering questioning...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 4: Gaslit
Four weeks in, one question lingers in the Walter Sofronoff-led Commission of Inquiry into Queensland's state-run forensics lab: who knew what and whe...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 3: Ingrid's Epic Spray
Humiliated. Belittled. Embarrassed. Toxic behaviour by the lab's managers leads to an epic spray from a reporting scientist in this week's episode. In...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 2: Evidence Destruction
We reveal deep concerns that the lab managers put a new, untried and ill-conceived testing system in place immediately after the public inquiry was ca...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 1: Blame Game
Following the shocking revelations of bungling, secrecy and misconduct within Queensland’s DNA lab exposed in journalist Hedley Thomas’ podcast Shande...
Introducing Shandee's Legacy
Hedley Thomas, Claire Harvey, David Murray, and Matthew Condon return to cover hearings in a major public inquiry into Queensland's state-run DNA lab....
Episode 20 - Shoot The Messengers
DNA scientist Dr Kirsty Wright is shown how public servants and DNA laboratory managers behind closed doors have been minimising the serious concerns...
Episode 19 - Shandee's Legacy
Finally, seven months after the first disclosures by Dr Kirsty Wright in Episode 7 of the podcast about grave concerns over the testing of DNA in Shan...
Introducing - The Teacher's Trial
From Hedley Thomas and the journalists at The Australian comes The Teacher's Trial. This is the first episode.
New episodes of The Teacher's Tri...
Episode 18 - Fair Go
Will Shandee Blackburn ever get justice? Will systemic flaws in Queensland’s forensic lab be independently investigated by the authorities?
In t...
Episode 17 – Through The Cracks
Evidence that appears to have fallen through the cracks in Shandee’s case is revealed as John Peros’s flat – and its hiding places – gets a fresh exam...
Episode 16 - Running
The footsteps of a running man captured in CCTV footage seconds before and after Shandee’s slaying are re-enacted to test a theory that the running ma...
Episode 15 - Spin Cycles
Queensland’s government-run forensics lab has been using a testing threshold that is preventing it from detecting DNA in many samples, says Dr Kirsty...
Episode 14 - Renewed Hope
Forensic biologist Dr Kirsty Wright says she’s found irrefutable evidence that the forensics train wreck in Shandee’s case is not a one-off incident –...
Episode 13 - Unheard Evidence
Shandee’s family reflect on a justice system they say failed Shandee and share who they believe her real killer is – and why he escaped justice. Unhea...
Episode 12 - Herring and Shark
The prosecutor Josh Phillips argues CCTV footage proves John is a killer and William Daniel a red herring, while Craig Eberhardt responds with a large...
Episode 11 - Lollies
John’s defence lawyer Craig Eberhardt smashes the credibility of three key Australia Day witnesses as they try to deny obvious references to illicit d...
Episode 10 - Blood
John Peros’s murder trial begins, and John's criminal defence lawyers fight to have evidence they believe is unfair to their client excluded.
Ev...
Episode 9 - Fast Hands
Detectives face tough questions from John Peros’s legal team at a committal hearing prior to his murder trial. William Daniel and Levii Blackman are w...
Episode 8 - Charge
John Peros is taken to a windowless room in Brisbane’s police headquarters in early September 2014. Detectives want him to see CCTV footage from the n...
Episode 7 - Bad Science
Major forensics failures in a government-run laboratory seriously compromised the police investigation into Shandee’s murder, one of Australia’s most...
Episode 6 - Losing It
An increasingly paranoid John Peros cuts ties with former friends and records his conversations – a close friend tells police that John is “losing it”...
Episode 5 - Willy D
A violent self-styled gangster who carries knives, deals and uses illegal drugs, and attacks men and women in the sugar and mining town looms into ser...
Episode 4 - Stealth Mode
John Peros tells a friend he has entered “stealth mode”, purchasing a motor scooter, deleting social media and using a new phone as police obtain a wa...
Episode 3 - Toxic Love
Detectives forensically examining Shandee’s iPhone uncover thousands of text messages and evidence of fierce rows between John Peros and Shandee in th...