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Quick content warning that this episode contains the discussion of a possible suicide with more detail than is usually recommended to avoid media-driven contagion. I will only include details required

to understand the argument that this was not a suicide. Additionally, this episode discusses

grooming and the sexual abuse of minicki Arnold and Julian Lay initially ruled a murder suicide.

This week, we are going through Vicki Arnold's psychological profile, a very serious accusation against Julianne's husband, Alan, two more inquest findings, and eventually

a suspect no one expected. I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

Hello and welcome back to crime lines. If you didn't listen to the last episode, you are going to have to listen because it covers the crime and the early investigation. And I will be referring back to things from that episode. Where we left off then was after the first inquest, which is when the coroner ruled the deaths of 26-year-old Julian Leigh and 27-year-old Vicki Arnold

a murder suicide, with Vicki being the perpetrator and Julianne being the victim. Both families

strongly disagreed with this ruling. Then from May of 1993 until May of 1994, a detective

inspector reviewed the case and decided that the inquest got it right.

And the families, now with media, attention, and public support, pushed for more to be done.

And that is where we are picking up in this episode.

The Attorney General of Queensland had the Director of Public Prosecutions review everything in this case and decide if

they should reopen the inquest. And this review is called the Bullock Review, which is named after

the prosecutor who conducted it. If you remember from last week, the police consulted a social

worker in the initial investigation to get some insight into

Vicki's mindset to see if she was suicidal and homicidal. Those two things do not usually go

hand in hand, which is why murder suicides are not common. So this time, for the Bullock

review, they consulted with a qualified psychiatrist, Dr. Frank Varkis,

and asked him to evaluate Vicky postmortem. He looked at the same papers from Vicki's apartment

that the social worker did, and also a TV show that presented the concerns of the family

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