We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded.

We pay our respects to their elders, past and present and to Aboriginal

elders emerging. The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children.

He was also stalking a 12 year old girl in Leeson. He wrote one afternoon,

home alone, time enough to abduct.

That's journalist and author, Monique Patterson, talking about the murder of Stephanie Scott, which is our main conversation and it's coming up shortly. But first, we wanted to make sure you're aware of another podcast about another victim of violence because this victim has received

a rather different level of attention through no fault of her own. The uncomfortable truth is that we as a

community don't take all victims to our hearts in the same way.

We tend to feel very deeply for a certain kind of woman lost to violence in Australia,

and Stephanie Scott personified everything we value most in a victim.

She was a young white woman living a life that epitomized respectability.

She was a school teacher from the small country town of Leeton in

New South Wales, preparing for her wedding day and honeymoon by putting in

extra hours in the classroom over the weekend to help her students cope in her absence.

In videos and photos lifted from her social media pages, Stephanie's wide smile and sparkling

eyes shone from every news broadcast for the week after

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