The following podcast contains accounts of child sexual assault.

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We're joined again in this episode of Australian true crime by guest host

criminologist and forensic pathologist Zanthi Mallet.

Today I'm joined by two wonderful guests.

The first is Iresia Hereth, who's a lawyer, and the second is Maria Ray, who works in journalism

and now spends her time looking at how both the media and podcasts impact society.

Now, together they've spent the last year and a half working on a podcast called

Little Girl Lost, which is also co-produced by Richard Hughes, the print editor at the age.

The podcast is about Alma Tershk, who was the victim in what later became known as the Gunn Alley

murder. Alma was born in 1909 and was raped and murdered as a 12-year-old, and her body was discovered a few meters away from a little bar called the Australian Wine Saloon.

Although it's 103 years ago, the way in which this story was sensationalized in the media and distorted in court displays parallels to the way victims lose ownership in their own murders today.

So we're going to begin by learning how Eresia became familiar with this case.

This is Australian true crime.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created,

the Wurundari Woi Wurang people of the Koolan Nation.

When Lange, people of the Koolen Nation. When Lauren comes home to find a strange man in her flat claiming to be her husband,

all the evidence suggests he's right.

But then another one appears.

A cup of tea.

And then another.

Hello.

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