Fiona’s fight to find her husband Bruce’s body - #138

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Fiona Splitt started an intense advocacy campaign in Queensland to have the "no body, no parole" legislation introduced after the murder of her partner Bruce Schuler in 2012. Bruce was gold fossicking in the remote Palmerville Station area in Cape York, Australia when he was murdered. His body has never been found and a rogue, outback couple Stephen and Dianne Struber were convicted of his murder.

Thanks to Fiona’s immense efforts The “no body, no parole” legislation was introduced. The Strubers will never be released from prison because they deny they murdered Bruce.

Fiona still holds hope Bruce's remains will be found and continues to push for information so she can bring Bruce home. Fiona tells us about her latest step in her quest to find Bruce.

Previously we spoke with author Robert Reid who wrote about the case in his book Murder on the River of Gold (episode 122).

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 138

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.5	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bizina in
0:19.9	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.
0:27.0	We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded.
0:31.0	We pay our respects to their elders, past and present and to
0:35.3	Aboriginal elders emerging.
0:37.0	The kids and I have struggled through it, but we all know that you've just got to take
0:49.8	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.
1:13.2	When our friend, Queensland journalist and author Robert Reed joined us to tell us
1:17.8	about the subjects of his book, River of Gold.
1:20.8	It's a story that shocked a lot of Australian listeners because it comes from a part of our country
1:26.0	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
1:35.6	Peninsula. I'll let Robert describe it.
1:40.9	We're talking the biggest town of any note would be would be Cook Town so we're well
1:46.5	well up on the Cape. Laura it's only a little little spot on the map it's got a
1:51.8	pub and a hall and that's about it. The nearest police,
1:56.1	apartment the lone policeman at Laura is Cooktown. And then you've got a long way south to
2:02.1	Kans.
2:02.8	So it's a vast wilderness area with rivers flowing and gullies and I would describe it as a bad
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