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Latest episodes
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Shandee’s Legacy Episode 12: History Repeating
October 27, 2023 · 1 hr 14 minPublic hearings for a rare second inquiry into catastrophic failings at Queensland’s besieged forensics lab are about to get underway in Brisbane. In this episode of Shandee’s Legacy, Hedley Thomas, David Murray, Claire Harvey, and…
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Shandee’s Legacy Episode 11: What Linzi Left Out
September 15, 2023 · 1 hr 27 minA cloud has been cast over the new chief of the lab following revelations that a DNA extraction method may have failed across thousands of samples in criminal cases for nine years. Professor Linzi Wilson-Wilde reviewed the automated…
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Shandee's Legacy Episode 10: Project 13
September 8, 2023 · 1 hr 18 minDr Kirsty Wright is the remarkable scientist who exposed the worst forensics disaster in Australia’s history, and now she’s identified the ‘smoking gun’ in the Queensland DNA lab disaster. It’s a catastrophe called ‘Project 13’ which has…
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Shandee's Legacy Episode 9: Consequences
December 17, 2022 · 1 hr 56 minWill anyone face criminal charges for the disaster at the laboratory? We examine more of Walter Sofronoff’s findings about how this catastrophe unfolded, delve deeper into Cathie Allen’s conduct, and meet a lady who -- when the laboratory…
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Shandee's Legacy Episode 8: Astounded
December 16, 2022 · 1 hr 27 minAt last, Commissioner Walter Sofronoff hands down his 500-plus-page report -- and it is a sweeping denunciation of the laboratory’s failings, and of the conduct of one person in particular: Cathie Allen. He finds the managing scientist…
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Shandee's Legacy Episode 7: Freedom Day
November 25, 2022 · 1 hr 40 minIt’s the final week of public hearings in the explosive inquiry into a broken DNA lab and we’re all here because of one person -- Shandee Blackburn. The vicious and unprovoked murder of the defenceless 23-year-old walking home from work is…
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Shandee's Legacy Episode 6: Disney Villain
November 4, 2022 · 1 hr 45 minIn the harsh spotlight of the inquiry, lab boss Cathie Allen admits to absolutely nothing, tearfully insisting she always acted with the best intentions and has been terribly misunderstood. In her account, white-anting staff were to blame…
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Shandee's Legacy Episode 5: Blowtorch
October 28, 2022 · 1 hr 38 minThe big guns from the DNA lab - Lara Keller, Justin Howes and Cathie Allen - are rolled into the formal inquiry and subjected to withering questioning by a lawyer on top of his game over alleged cover-up, lies to police, and scientific…
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Shandee's Legacy Episode 4: Gaslit
October 21, 2022 · 1 hr 37 minFour weeks in, one question lingers in the Walter Sofronoff-led Commission of Inquiry into Queensland's state-run forensics lab: who knew what and when? In this week's episode, Hedley Thomas, Claire Harvey, Matthew Condon, and David…
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Shandee's Legacy Episode 3: Ingrid's Epic Spray
October 14, 2022 · 1 hr 43 minHumiliated. Belittled. Embarrassed. Toxic behaviour by the lab's managers leads to an epic spray from a reporting scientist in this week's episode. Ingrid Moeller used her time in the witness box to unleash on less-than-stellar management…
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Shandee's Legacy Episode 2: Evidence Destruction
October 7, 2022 · 1 hr 16 minWe reveal deep concerns that the lab managers put a new, untried and ill-conceived testing system in place immediately after the public inquiry was called. Was it a deliberate strategy of sabotage to try to cover up the mistakes of the…
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Shandee's Legacy Episode 1: Blame Game
September 30, 2022 · 1 hr 30 minFollowing the shocking revelations of bungling, secrecy and misconduct within Queensland’s DNA lab exposed in journalist Hedley Thomas’ podcast Shandee’s Story, a major royal commission-style inquiry into the fiasco gets underway in a…
About the show
Shandee Blackburn was brutally murdered as she walked home from work - but this cold-case can still be solved. Gold Walkley-winning journalist Hedley Thomas - who created The Teacher’s Pet and The Night Driver - goes deep to find out who killed Shandee, and why.
Episodes of the podcast first, plus exclusive stories, videos, pictures and extraordinary evidence are available with a subscription through The Australian's app, or at shandee.com.au
To contact Hedley Thomas anonymously with any information on Shandee's Story email here - Shandee@theaustralian.com.au