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2010, the sleepy town of Ballarat, Victoria, known more for Gold Rush history and Sovereignacments

than homicide, was about to get a front row seat to one of Australia's most bizarre and quietly

terrifying true crime stories.

This is the story of Jill Maga.

But not the version you saw in headlines.

This is the full, ugly, strange truth of how a regular night out ended in a murder that would

grip a nation, ignite outrage,

and expose a legal system full of cracks.

Jill Meager was 29th. ABC Radio employee, Irish, bright, warm, the kind of person you'd say

hi to in the hallway and actually mean it.

On the night of September 21st, 2012, she went out for a couple of drinks with colleagues

on Sydney Road, Brunswick.

It was a casual Friday, just a few blocks from her home. Harmless, or so it should have been.

She left the bar around 1.30 a.m. politely turned down a cab, wanted to walk the short distance

home. She texted her husband earlier in the evening, said she'd be home soon.

He fell asleep waiting. She never made it.

By the time the sun rose, Jill Mager had vanished.

Her husband woke to an empty bed.

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