There's a headline template that appears with horrifying regularity in Australian media.

It goes something like man and woman found dead in suspected murder suicide.

Today on Australian true crime, we speak to a woman whose mother was the subject of one of those headlines in August 2017.

Marilyn Burden was an outgoing 70-year-old mother and grandmother with several degrees, including a Masters in Criminology.

She enjoyed a successful career in which she advised various government bodies about crime prevention in the community.

One night in 2010, she was introduced by mutual friends to Charles Buzucci.

He was around the same age as Marilyn and presented himself as a successful lawyer with interesting passions and an eccentric way about him.

Although they never really warmed to him, Marilyn's family discovered there was much more to Basuchi than met the eye.

They discovered that during the inquest into their mother's death in 2021, and her daughter, Rebecca

Burden, joins us to talk about it. This is Australian True Crime.

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

the Wurundri Woi Warang people of the Koolan Nation.

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She was fun, you know, she liked academics.

She had an inquiring mind and, you know, she was interesting.

She liked to have fun and muck around as well. So, you know, she was very

involved in all of the three of our lives. She wasn't working at the time. She just turned

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