Before we begin today's episode of Australian true crime, I want to tell you about a new project

we've been working on behind the scenes. It's called She Matters. It's a new podcast from

award-winning journalist and femicide researcher Shirel Moody. Each week, Shirel speaks with

families of women and children killed in Australia, sharing who they were, the joy they brought,

and the love they left behind. She Matters isn't a true crime podcast. It's about lives lived, lives loved and lives

lost. She Matters is produced by Dashmade podcasts in association with bravecasting media.

You can follow She Matters now wherever you get your podcasts

and listen to the trailer ahead of the first episodes dropping this Friday, October 10th.

I'm sure many of you will remember this story.

It's rugby league grand final night, 2018.

A young man has just dozed off in front of the TV in a beach shack owned by his parents in the tiny North Queensland hamlet of Alva Beach.

He's awoken by the sound of a young woman, a stranger, banging on the front door, begging to be

rescued. She says she's being chased and threatened by a group of men.

He's terrified, but he lets her in and dials triple zero.

By the time police arrive, almost an hour later,

two of those men lay dead in the driveway,

stabbed by the resident with a kitchen knife.

The dead men's families say the version of the story depicting them as violent and

threatening goes against everything they were as human beings.

There are audio recordings of most of the incident, thanks to the resident's continued

calls to Triple Zero asking for help, and there are several

witnesses. To most of us, it seems like an open and shut case, an unfortunate consequence

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