Elizabeth Struhs and the Religious Cult Behind Her Death

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Struhs was just eight years old when she died in 2022 after her parents stopped giving her insulin, following the beliefs of a religious cult called The Saints.

Journalist Pippa Bradshaw, who has covered the case from the start, now hosts "The Saints", a podcast investigating the cult and the institutional failures that led to Elizabeth’s death.

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0:00.0	And I said I was still struggling a bit with it.
0:04.0	And when you say struggling, as in struggling with the insulin,
0:07.0	or struggling with what in relation to Elizabeth?
0:10.0	Oh, we've given up the insulin.
0:12.0	I mean, I believe in God, but they're still...
0:14.0	I say, okay, so you were scared, you were still unsure about stopping the insulin at that point?
0:20.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There hadn't been a decision about that, but we spoke about.
0:22.6	Why were you scared about stopping it?
0:25.8	I suppose I was still in the flesh and thinking like a man,
0:28.9	and you know what can happen.
0:32.0	What did you think could happen if you stop the insulin?
0:35.9	But I trusted in God, and so did she, so we made the decision
0:40.1	together that. Okay. In January 2022, eight-year-old Elizabeth Strews died in her home in Tawomba,
0:53.6	Queensland.
0:59.7	Six days earlier, her father had stopped administering the daily insulin injections Elizabeth needed to survive because it went against the religious beliefs of the group they
1:04.6	belonged to, a group that called themselves the Saints.
1:09.3	Journalist Pippa Bradshaw has covered the case from the beginning, and she now hosts
1:13.4	a podcast called The Saints, in which she investigates the bizarre group and the many
1:18.2	failings that allowed Elizabeth's death to happen.
1:21.7	This is Australian true crime.
1:23.6	We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created,
1:28.0	the Wurundri Woi Warang people of the Kulin Nation.
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