We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.

This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.

So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will

contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian

true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.

The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.

They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.

I've cried, that many times have been angry that many times I've spent so many lonely nights here going,

you know what am I doing but I fell in love with him

through the same way that you'd fall in love with anybody.

Our guest on Australian True Crime today is Ashley.

She's a kind of woman we've all heard about and thought about many times, but we rarely get to hear from.

A couple of years ago Ashley started writing to men in prison. She fell in love with one of them,

who happens to be serving a long sentence for double murder.

Ashley joins us today to talk about her relationship with John, about the realities of courtship under the ever-present eye of corrections and about her hopes for the future.

We begin our conversation by talking about Ashley's background and her life before John.

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