His Secret Past: The Murder of Janet Fisicaro
REDRUM true crime
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4.6 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Janet Campbell(Fisicaro) sets off on a camping trip with her new husband to the Royal National Park, high above the crashing ocean cliffs south of Sydney.
That evening she leaves the tent to go to the bathroom... but never returns...
As detectives begin to retrace the couple’s final hours, small details start to emerge... details about the campsite, about Janet’s injuries, and about the man she married.
In this episode of REDRUM, we examine the life, death, and investigation that would ultimately force a jury to decide what really happened on that cliff edge.
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| 0:00.0 | On a peaceful Easter weekend in 2005, a couple newlyweds go on this romantic camping trip. |
| 0:13.0 | They hike for a few hours and eventually settle down on the edge of this beautiful cliffside. |
| 0:18.0 | It's got a gorgeous view. They settle down for the night, the sun goes down. |
| 0:23.0 | But then Janet says that she wants to go to the bathroom. Des says that's fine, watches her leave. |
| 0:30.5 | And then after a few minutes, he begins to become concerned. He calls out for her, but he gets no |
| 0:35.5 | answer. He goes to investigate, and that's when he sees her lying motionless at the bottom of the cliff. |
| 0:43.1 | This is Red Rum. Stories about the true victims of crime. I upload a video episode on a Monday and a podcast exclusive on a Thursday. |
| 0:51.3 | Make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode. Also, I upload a video |
| 0:55.8 | episode every single week on YouTube. So if you are not getting notifications or if you haven't |
| 1:00.6 | seen them, it might be worth going and having a little look at the back catalogue because there |
| 1:04.3 | is one up every single week. Janet Fisikaro lived in Deni Likwin. And in the 1980s, she meets this man called Frank. He's a farmer, |
| 1:15.7 | he has his own farm and very quickly they fall in love. They decide to get married and they have |
| 1:21.2 | a baby boy who they called Stephen. Things are going really well for them. They've got a really |
| 1:26.0 | good, solid marriage. They're sure that each other are the love of their lives and on top of this the farm |
| 1:33.1 | is super successful it's bringing in a lot of money they're at this point quite |
| 1:37.8 | wealthy and they're pretty happy with their lives but about 15 years into the |
| 1:43.6 | marriage something devastating happens. |
| 1:46.5 | Frank suffers from a heart attack. It's sudden, it's completely unexpected and unfortunately |
| 1:53.7 | he dies. And so Janet's left on her own, not knowing what to do, she's got, she's now a single |
| 2:00.0 | parent, she's a widow, she's got this son who she's got to. She's got, she's now a single parent, she's a widow, |
| 2:01.5 | she's got this son who she's got to raise and look after, she's got this whole farm, |
| 2:05.3 | and she found that she just couldn't look after the farm on her own. And so she decides to sell |
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