Shortcut: Elizabeth Struhs and the Religious Cult Behind Her Death
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.
Elizabeth Struhs was just eight years old when she died in 2022 after her parents stopped giving her insulin, following the beliefs of a religious cult called The Saints.
Journalist Pippa Bradshaw, who has covered the case from the start, now hosts "The Saints", a podcast investigating the cult and the institutional failures that led to Elizabeth’s death.
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| 0:00.0 | In January 2022, 8-year-old Elizabeth Strews died in her home in Tawomba, Queensland. |
| 0:12.4 | Six days earlier, her father had stopped administering the daily insulin injections Elizabeth needed to survive |
| 0:18.5 | because it went against the religious beliefs of the group |
| 0:21.7 | they belonged to, a group that called themselves the Saints. |
| 0:26.4 | Journalist Pippa Bradshaw has covered the case from the beginning and she now hosts a podcast called |
| 0:31.7 | The Saints in which she investigates the bizarre group and the many failings that allowed Elizabeth's |
| 0:37.1 | death to happen. |
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