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In 1997, Joe Chinkway was killed by a fatal dose of heroin administered by his girlfriend,

a new sing. Those details are not in dispute, but pretty much everything else is,

and the final outcome of this case left much of Australia in shock.

I'm Charlie, and this is Crime Lines.

Welcome to Crime Lines. I'm going to give a quick apology if I sound a little more

nasally than usual. I'm not sure that's possible, but I do have some kind of allergy cold thing going on,

but I'm getting ready to leave town, and this is my last chance to record and get the episode out in time.

So I'm just going to do my best. Tonight's story is one, I'm not sure how familiar it will be

with my non-Australian audience, but I'm sure a lot of my Australian listeners are like this old

thing about this case. I want to thank Kate Morris at the top for helping me research this case.

We are talking about two people who seem to really have a lot in common on the surface,

but their paths crossing was the worst possible thing that could have happened.

Let's start with Joe. Joe Chinkue was born in 1971 in Newcastle, which is in New South Wales in

Australia. He was the oldest of two sons born to Italian immigrants, Nino and Maria.

He grew up in a pretty happy family. His mother's dream was to be a mother. A defining moment in

Joe's childhood occurred when he was 80 years old. The family was involved in a roll over car

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