376: Jeans Around Her Knees, Lost CCTV & a Case That Still Haunts Australia | Phoebe Handsjuk
Serialously with Annie Elise
Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios
4.7 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
It started with a locked door in a luxury Melbourne apartment building. A concierge pushed harder, expecting a pile of trash, until she saw a woman’s body lying in blood on the other side. The victim was Phoebe Handsjuk, a 24-year-old resident of the building, and her death would spark one of Australia’s most baffling and controversial investigations. From strange details at the scene to decisions that raised serious questions, the case quickly unraveled into something far more disturbing than it first appeared. How did Phoebe end up in the garbage room and why were so many critical questions never fully answered…
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| 0:30.5 | On December 2nd, 2010, this security camera recorded one of the last images of Phoebe Hanschuk. |
| 0:38.3 | Seven hours later, she'd be dead. |
| 0:40.3 | Phoebe was fun. |
| 0:42.3 | Do you believe she committed suicide? |
| 0:44.3 | No, I don't. |
| 0:46.3 | She's really special, like you don't meet many Phoebe's in life. |
| 0:49.3 | I mean, it's the bizarre nature of her death that makes people say, |
| 0:54.2 | how could this have happened? |
| 0:58.6 | Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an all new episode of serialously with me, Annie Elyce. And I don't even know what to say to tee up today's case. It is all fucking kinds of psychotic. Sorry, there I go, cussing in the first like few minutes. Thanks, YouTube. You're going to flag me. I don't even know where to begin with it. It is so wild and I don't want to |
| 1:46.5 | say my worst nightmare because I feel like there are so many things that I have learned through |
| 1:50.8 | my journey and true crime that are my worst nightmare. But this is right up there with it. And so I hope |
| 1:56.9 | you're in a place of Zen. I hope that you didn't just eat. And maybe I should also say, |
| 2:04.3 | like, prepare to be, I was going to say flabbergasted, but I hate that word. |
| 2:09.3 | Prepare to just be like in rage, like a blind rage. Okay. Now, let me just kind of shut up and |
| 2:14.8 | jump into it for you. But imagine pushing open a door at work |
| 2:18.7 | and then realizing that something is blocking it. Only to notice then there's like a smear of |
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