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 Bazzina 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.

Please be advised this podcast contains descriptions of graphic violence and it's not appropriate for children. I was a

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a receptionist in a Melbourne brothel in 1999

and our boss was a beautiful lady called Vicky, who invited all of us to a staff dinner once a month.

She'd often ask a guest speaker to come along to talk about various safety and self-care issues,

particularly pertinent to sex workers, and one of those speakers was a young woman

called Nicky Patterson, who was in the process of setting up a counseling practice in her own home.

Nicky was a big hit at the dinner which can't be said for every speaker.

She was softly spoken and gentle and she made very good at her

had to say would shock her.

She was very good at her job.

Everyone took one of her business cards

and a lot of the girls even followed through and called her

about appointments. About a week later the girls started complaining that she

wasn't getting back to them. It never occurred to any of us that the murdered woman we'd heard about in the news was Nicky

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