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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.

A closer look at the CCTV, witnesses, missing handbag, DNA evidence, criminal trial, coronial findings and the forensic questions that made Shandee’s case significant far beyond Mackay.

The Shandee Blackburn story is now on Coffee & Crime AU. A case shaped by CCTV, witnesses, a missing handbag and forensic evidence that later became part of a much wider examination of Queensland's DNA laboratory.

The Shandee Blackburn story is available now for Early Access subscribers. Follow her final walk, the investigation, the 2017 acquittal, the later coronial process and the forensic DNA questions that followed.

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.

The new Coffee & Crime AU episode follows the disappearance of two-day-old Tegan Lane, the case against her mother Keli Lane, and the questions that remain nearly thirty years later.

Early Access is now available for the new Coffee & Crime AU episode on Keli Lane and the disappearance of two-day-old Tegan Lane.

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.

A clear, factual overview of the Gonzales family murders, the case against Sef Gonzales, the verdict and where the case stands today.

4:04pm. 5:30pm. 6:23pm. 7:45pm. The phone records and alibi window that became crucial to the prosecution case against Sef Gonzales.

Listen before public release They came home one by one. He was already waiting. Early Access members can now listen to the extended, ad-free Sef Gonzales episode before its public release. The story follows the final hours of Teddy, Loiva and Clodine Gonzales, the staged scene left inside their family home and the performance Sef began when he called emergency services.

There is a temptation, when telling the story of Katherine Knight, to begin at the end. With John Price. With Aberdeen. With the crime that made her name infamous. But by the time Price entered Knight's life, there was already a long history behind her. Three men, in particular, occupied important places in that history. David Kellett. David Saunders. John Chillingworth.

In February 2000, Katherine Mary Knight and John Price were known around Aberdeen as a couple. People saw them together. They knew Knight as a hard-working and highly skilled meatworker. Price was known as a well-liked man who worked in the local mining industry. To those around them, their relationship could appear ordinary. It wasn't.

On 28 February 2000, John Price went to court. He wasn't there because a crime had already happened. He was there because he was frightened that one might.

🔒 EARLY ACCESS FOR SUBSCRIBERS Your early access is here. Before this episode reaches the public feed, Coffee and Crime AU subscribers get to hear it first. On 29 February 2000, John Price went home to his house in Aberdeen, New South Wales. He expected to wake up the following morning and go to work. He never did. What happened inside John's home became one of Australia's most notorious murder cases.

In this subscriber deep dive, we go beyond the story of Kerrie Palmer and into the evidence that shaped one of Queensland’s most difficult criminal cases. Four men were ultimately convicted of manslaughter, but none were convicted of murder. So why? This episode follows the evidence piece by piece — the money dispute, the search for Kerrie, Coral Tree Court, the vehicles, telephone records, DNA, blood evidence, the movements between locations, the statements given by t

A missing man. A homicide investigation. A trial that raised difficult questions about criminal responsibility.

On 27 January 2003, 20-year-old Kerrie Palmer disappeared on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Three days later, his body was discovered in sand dunes at Mudjimba. What followed was a police investigation that eventually resulted in five men being charged in connection with Kerrie’s death. But the story that emerged in court was considerably more complicated than the simple description of a murder case. The investigation would eventually lead to a Supreme Court trial, ye