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 Bizina 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.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded.

We pay our respects to their elders, past and present and to

Aboriginal elders emerging.

The kids and I have struggled through it, but we all know that you've just got to take

little baby steps and keep going because that's what he would have wanted us to do. We're sliding back into your podcast stream for the first time in 2020 with an update on a case we bought you in September of 2019.

When our friend, Queensland journalist and author Robert Reed joined us to tell us

about the subjects of his book, River of Gold.

It's a story that shocked a lot of Australian listeners because it comes from a part of our country

that's unfamiliar to many of us. Where people live a lifestyle that seems quite foreign. We're talking about the northernmost tip of Queensland, the Cape York

Peninsula. I'll let Robert describe it.

We're talking the biggest town of any note would be would be Cook Town so we're well

well up on the Cape. Laura it's only a little little spot on the map it's got a

pub and a hall and that's about it. The nearest police,

apartment the lone policeman at Laura is Cooktown. And then you've got a long way south to

Kans.

So it's a vast wilderness area with rivers flowing and gullies and I would describe it as a bad

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