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Australian True Crime

Shortcut: Remembering Tracey Connelly

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6979 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

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.


Tracey Connelly was 40 years old when she was murdered in St Kilda in 2013, and despite a $1 million reward, her killer has never been found.


While media coverage often centred on her work as a sex worker, she was also a beloved sister, daughter, partner, friend and mother.


Her sister Jean shares memories of Tracey and her family's fight for justice.


Click here for more information on the 1 million dollar reward for information on Tracey Connelly's case.


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CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie

Guest: Jean

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

This episode contains extra content from Nine Entertainment Co. and Paramount Global.


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0:00.0

In July of 2013, 40-year-old Tracy Connolly was brutally murdered in Melbourne's beachside

0:10.8

suburb of St Kilda, and the crime remains unsolved. Some believe the circumstances of Tracy's

0:17.5

life have contributed to a lack of interest in the case, or at the very least,

0:22.9

to a sense of inevitability about Tracy's fate.

0:27.0

Tracy was a sex worker, living and working in a van parked on Greaves Street, the hub of St.

0:33.0

Kilda's street sex trade.

0:35.1

But Tracy was many other things, too.

0:41.9

A mother, a sister, a daughter, a friend and a partner. Tracy's sister Jean joins us on Australian True Crime to talk about the sister she knew

0:48.4

and about the $1 million award that's been posted for information leading to an arrest in the case.

0:55.8

This is Australian true crime. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this

1:00.6

podcast is created, the Wurundri Woi Wurung people of the Koolan Nation. And a warning, this

1:07.7

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