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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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

In many criminal investigations, the evidence eventually leads investigators to one moment. A discovery. A location. A piece of information that changes everything. But some cases never reach that point. Instead, they remain suspended between what is suspected and what can be proven.

This exclusive subscriber episode goes beyond the main case episode and examines the investigation itself. From the eleven-day delay before Bronwyn was reported missing to the witness accounts, timeline reconstruction, and the significance of the Sandstone Crescent house, this episode explores the evidence detectives were forced to piece together years after the events of May 1993.

What happened to Bronwyn Winfield? Bronwyn was 31 years old when she vanished in May 1993. She was a mother of two young daughters, a daughter, a friend, and a woman whose life was much more than the mystery that would later surround her disappearance.

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.

In this episode of Coffee and Crime AU, we examine Amy’s life before the headlines, the events of her final day, the photograph taken only minutes before her death, and the enduring uncertainty surrounding one of Western Australia’s most debated deaths.

There is a sentence that appears repeatedly in discussions about Amy Wensley’s death: 'The scene had already changed.” Those six words sit at the centre of the controversy surrounding the investigation. They do not tell us how Amy died. They tell us something equally important: that later investigators were forced to examine a scene that was no longer preserved exactly as it had been at the critical moment.

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.

Many people assume there must have been obvious warning signs that were overlooked, but the reality is far more complicated. Tiahleigh's death prompted widespread reviews of Queensland's child protection system, the foster carer approval process, and the Blue Card system. Those reviews weren't just about understanding what had happened—they were about determining whether the system itself could be strengthened to better protect vulnerable children.

She left dance class expecting to earn some extra money. She talked with friends, laughed about the future, and planned to buy a new pair of shoes the next day. She never came home. This week on Coffee and Crime AU, we examine the heartbreaking murder of Rachel Barber—a 15-year-old girl whose life was stolen by someone she had known and trusted for years. From the carefully constructed lie that lured Rachel to a Prahran apartment, to the investigation that uncovered a disturb