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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 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.

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.

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.

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

More than thirty years ago, a woman disappeared from a quiet street in Lennox Head, and she has never been found. In May 1993, 31-year-old Bronwyn Winfield vanished from her home on Sandstone Crescent on the far north coast of New South Wales. She left behind two young daughters, a family searching for answers, and a mystery that continues to haunt those who knew her.

More than thirty years ago, Bronwyn Winfield disappeared from her home in Lennox Head, and she has never been found. In this early access episode of Coffee and Crime AU, we follow the known timeline of Bronwyn’s final days: the breakdown of her marriage, her return to the family home on Sandstone Crescent, the night she vanished, and the investigation that followed.

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.

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.