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On a winter night in June 2014, police were called to a rural property in Western Australia. What began as an emergency response would later become the subject of a coronial inquest, forensic debate, and years of unanswered questions.

At approximately 4:50 pm on 26 June 2014, Amy Wensley used her mobile phone to take a photograph inside the bedroom of the Serpentine home where she later died. It was one of the final known actions of her life.

On a cold winter afternoon in June 2014, two little girls waited in a running car while their mother walked back inside their home. She told them she’d only be a moment. She never came back.

In October 2015, twelve-year-old Tiahleigh Alyssa-Rose Palmer disappeared from her foster home in Queensland. For six days, her community searched for answers. But behind the scenes, a much darker truth was unfolding. This episode explores the life of Tiahleigh Palmer — a child who spent years moving between homes, carers and court orders, searching for the one thing every child deserves: stability, safety and a place to belong. From her earliest days in the child protection

In 2015, Australia was shocked by the disappearance and murder of 12-year-old Tiahleigh Palmer. But before she became a headline, Tiahleigh was a child who spent her life searching for stability. She loved dancing. She loved horses. She loved animals. She was described by those who knew her as kind, gentle and a child people fell in love with. This episode tells Tiahleigh’s story from the beginning — her childhood, her years in the child protection system, the many