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Trace

by ABC Australia

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ABC reporter Rachael Brown reopens the 1980 murder of Melbourne mother Maria James, and her reporting helped push the case back into a coroner's court.

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Latest episodes

S2 BONUS — The Price

December 16, 2020 · 41 min

The Royal Commission has released its final report into defence lawyer turned police informer Nicola Gobbo.
S2 08 | End game

September 21, 2020 · 42 min

We reveal the story of Nicola Gobbo's audacious bid to return to Australia.
S2 07 | Reckoning

September 14, 2020 · 41 min

Everything unravels, for Nicola Gobbo and Victoria Police. Their secret is out.
S2 06 | Whatever it takes

September 7, 2020 · 41 min

Nicola hits rock bottom, but Victoria Police wants her to take on a new role ... as a witness.
S2 05 | Glittering prize

August 31, 2020 · 40 min

Nicola wants to be the best source ever, and she leads police to the biggest target of all: the mafia. Her double life is getting riskier, but she can't stop. This episode charts an addiction and a crash.

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S2 04 | Rubicon

August 24, 2020 · 38 min

Nicola crosses the point of no return and becomes a police informer. She'll represent clients, while passing on the underworld's secrets to Victoria Police.
S2 03 | The darkest night

August 17, 2020 · 40 min

A drug house burglary smells of police corruption and a police informer is executed.
S2 02 | One of the crew

August 10, 2020 · 38 min

As the gangland war explodes, both police and criminals start questioning Nicola's allegiances. Where do her loyalties lie?
S2 01 | Nicola

August 3, 2020 · 36 min

We meet Nicola Gobbo in a secret location, in hiding, now that her double life as a police informer is out, and she begins telling us her full story.
INTRODUCING Trace season 2 - The Informer

July 27, 2020 · 5 min

Lawyer Nicola Gobbo represented some of Australia's most dangerous criminals, all the while secretly working as a police informer. Why did she do it, and how was it allowed to happen? When her cover was blown, the story garnered media…
S1 02 | Confessions

June 27, 2017 · 36 min

Rachael Brown's investigation into the death of Maria James turns to the local Church, and Rachael tracks down a new witness who saw someone covered in blood around the time of Maria's death.
S1 01 | Bookshop murder

June 20, 2017 · 30 min

On a winter morning in June 1980, Maria James turned to her son Mark and looked him in the eyes. "If anything happens to me, look after your brother." Later that day she was found stabbed to death at the back of her suburban Melbourne…