Unfinished Business - a survivor defies the odds of Australia’s Court System (Part 1)

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is part one of a two part series. Part two will be available this coming Thursday.

For reasons that will become apparent, our guest has chosen to remain anonymous.

Raised mostly in a single father household alongside her sister, our guest's upbringing was far from ordinary. Her relationship with her turbulent mother added to the complexity of her early years, as her mother's attempts to be involved often resulted in further pain and confusion.

Today, our guest is a law abiding citizen, who has had a long career in social work. Her past, however, was anything but. Despite being a smart kid, full of promise and adored by her father and teachers, she found herself developing a severe heroin addiction, and a subsequent lifestyle of crime to support that addiction.

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.4	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in
0:19.9	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.
0:26.0	This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.
0:29.0	So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will
0:33.8	contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian
0:38.4	true-crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
0:42.0	listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.
0:47.0	The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.
0:59.5	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
1:07.0	The thing about, I guess having a drug habit is that in a lot of ways it's like Groundhog Day because every day you wake
1:15.2	up and you need to get money. You've got to get on the train and go around to the shopping
1:20.5	centres and then steal stuff and then sell it and then you've got to get the train to Cabra and you've got a score and then you've got to find somewhere to use.
1:30.8	I was not at all cognizant that that was a side effect of using Harold every day
1:35.9	was that if you don't have it it will make you really ill.
1:52.0	Our guest today has a story so large we've decided to split it up into two episodes and you'll hear part two on Thursday. For reasons that will become apparent and definitely understandable,
1:56.0	our guest has chosen to remain anonymous.
1:58.0	She was raised mostly in a single father household alongside her sister and her upbringing was far from ordinary.
2:06.0	Her turbulent relationship with her mother added to the complexity of her early years and
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