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.

But you look at these two parties now and she is on the run with her children back hiding and they'll never have a normal life.

Police who were involved, they've moved on with their life, they're getting promotions,

they probably won't be in criminal investigations and yes they've

apologized as a force and they say it was you know it was a systemic issue and there

wasn't any individual officer at fault. It's just it still seems inequitable.

That's a voice, That's a voice,

that's a voice very well known to Australian true crime fans. It is of course

journalist Rachel Brown who is the host of ABC Podcast Trace. In season one of Trace Rachel and one of Australia's most trusted men,

retired homicide detective Ron Idols, re-investigated one of his old cases,

the unsolved murder of Maria James.

Maria was the single mother of two sons, one of whom was profoundly disabled.

He disclosed to her that he was being sexually abused by the parish priest and she planned to

confront the man on the morning she was murdered. I won't spoil it for you in case

you haven't heard it yet but suffice to say that by the time Rachel and Ron were done, the Victorian coroner

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