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The bathroom, the car and the evidence between them: what later experts said the forensic material could and could not safely prove.

A deeper examination of the Beth Barnard case: the Rhyll scene, blood evidence, Cameron house, Land Cruiser, coronial finding, missing-person timeline and the questions the surviving evidence still cannot answer.

Where Is Vivienne?, the Beth Barnard subscriber companion, releases 13 October at 6:30 am. Listen with your Coffee & Crime AU Spotify subscription.

How investigative tunnel vision shaped the Revelle Balmain case, what the 2026 inquest criticised, and why lost time matters in a cold case.

The missed 10:30pm booking, the reported agency debt, and the distinction between witness evidence and coronial findings in Revelle Balmain's case.

The subscriber companion to The Night Revelle Vanished follows the interviews, conflicting accounts, missed enquiries and evidence examined in Revelle Balmain’s case.

A legal deep dive into accomplice evidence, corroboration, competing inferences and the challenges to the conviction.

From Manly’s fish shops to the Pacific hotel, follow the relationships and years behind Andrew Kalajzich’s public life in this subscriber companion to Megan’s story.

How investigators moved beyond the bedroom scene and built a contract-murder case from converging evidence.

A DITC evidence guide to the Maria Korp case: Tania Herman’s pre-attack preparation, the competing accounts about Joe Korp, what the committal hearing actually tested, and the legal distinctions the episode cannot unpack in full.

A DITC examination of the medical, guardianship and legal decisions after Maria Korp was found alive, and how her death changed the case.

A subscriber-only companion to the Maria Korp case, looking more closely at Tania Herman, her relationship with Joe Korp, her guilty plea and the story that emerged through the court process.

The Shandee Blackburn case began with one walk home in Mackay and eventually exposed serious problems in Queensland's forensic DNA system.

A subscriber deep dive into John Peros, the investigation, his 2017 acquittal, the later coronial findings and why the DNA evidence became so important.

A new subscriber episode follows the people who kept asking questions after the trial ended and the way Shandee's case continued to drive scrutiny of Queensland's forensic system.

How could Keli Lane carry three babies to term while almost everyone closest to her carried on as normal? The Other Babies follows the hidden pregnancies, the lawful adoptions, the false histories given to hospitals and social workers, and the paperwork that finally forced Keli’s separate worlds into the same room. Content warning: infant disappearance and presumed death, surveillance, discussion of adoption and concealed pregnancy, and the criminal justice process.

Tegan Lane left Auburn Hospital with her mother on 14 September 1996. A few hours later, Keli Lane arrived in Fairlight without her. This is what is known about the missing hours in between.

No body, no known cause of death and no identified crime scene — yet a jury convicted Keli Lane of murdering Tegan. Here is how the circumstantial case was put together.

Keli Lane said Tegan went to live with her biological father. Police spent years trying to find the man she described. This is how the Andrew Morris/Norris story changed — and why it mattered.

Subscriber Companion Episode Sef Gonzales didn’t create just one false story. He built an entire life out of them. To the people around him, he could be the successful university student, the future lawyer, the singer on the edge of a breakthrough, the young businessman and, eventually, the devastated son left behind after an unthinkable crime. But those identities couldn’t all survive contact with the truth.