Early Access: Shandee Blackburn — The Evidence That Failed Her | Coffee & Crime AU
Shandee Blackburn was 23 years old when she finished a late shift at Harrup Park Country Club in Mackay and started the short walk home.
She was almost there.
CCTV captured fragments of that final journey: Shandee walking alone, a white Toyota Hilux-type vehicle moving through nearby streets, and movement close to the area where she was attacked. A taxi driver also caught a fleeting glimpse of a struggle.
But what happened that night is only one part of Shandee's story.
John Peros was later charged with Shandee's murder and was acquitted by a jury in 2017. A coronial inquest followed in a separate legal process, and years later questions raised by the DNA testing in Shandee's case became part of a much broader examination of Queensland's forensic DNA laboratory.
The new Coffee & Crime AU episode, The Evidence That Failed Her, follows Shandee's final walk, the investigation, the evidence, the trial and the forensic questions that refused to disappear.
Early Access subscribers can listen now, ad-free and before the public release on Saturday.
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