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3 Dr Rod Milton (retired) is a highly respected forensic psychiatrist who has worked on some of the most notorious Australian criminal cases, including that of Ivan Milat (the infamous backpacker murderer).
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5 Long Bay Prison is located 15 kilometres south of Sydney.
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9 This is a specific type of criminal defence, and is called battered women’s syndrome because it is predominantly applied to women.
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19 This genetically inherited condition is characterised by changes in the pigmentation (skin coloration) as well as the growth of tumours along nerves in the brain, skin and other parts of the body. The symptoms are very variable between sufferers, but most adults with the condition develop benign tumours on or just below the skin. These tumours can be very minor and hard to spot, or they can be very extensive and disfiguring.
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Dr Xanthé Mallett is a forensic anthropologist and television presenter. Xanthé holds a PhD (University of Sheffield), a Research Masters (University of Cambridge) and a Bachelor of Science (University of Bradford). She has presented television series for the BBC (UK), National Geographic Channel (US), and Foxtel’s History Channel and Channel Ten (Australia). Xanthé has co-edited two textbooks and has contributed to numerous books, journals and news items. This is her first book.
Lindy and (then) husband Michael Chamberlain, taken shortly after baby Azaria’s disappearance in 1980. Russell McPhedran/Fairfax Syndication
Azaria’s bloodied jumpsuit, as photographed by police. News Ltd/Newspix
Michael and Lindy Chamberlain, pregnant with their fourth child, arriving at the Supreme Court in Darwin during the trial in 1982. News Ltd/Newspix
Michael and Lindy Chamberlain leave the Northern Territory Court of Criminal Appeal in Darwin in 1988, after all convictions against them were quashed. News Ltd/Newspix
Kathleen Folbigg leaves Maitland Local Court after bail was refused, 2001. Robert McKell/Newspix
The four Folbigg children Kathleen was found guilty of killing between 1989 and 1999: Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura. Fairfax Syndication
A photo of Dean Shillingsworth left at the memorial that sprang up at the pond where Dean’s body was found at Ambarvale. James Croucher/Newspix
A memorial of candles and balloons for ‘Lake Angel’, the name by which Dean became known following the discovery of his body in the pond.
Dallas Kilponen/Fairfax Syndication
Rachel Pfitzner is led away from court after being found guilty of Dean’s murder in 2009. James Elsby/Newspix
Kristi Abrahams and Robert Smith face the press after Kiesha’s disappearance.
John Grainger/Newspix
Chris Weippeart pictured at his Western Sydney home with his mother, Liz, and a photo of Kiesha.
Tim Hunter/Newspix
Keli Lane leaving the inquest into the disappearance of baby Tegan at Westmead Court, Sydney, in 2005. Chris Hyde/Newspix
Duncan Gillies, who Lane claimed had fathered Tegan. News Ltd/Newspix
Carol Matthey leaves court on bail after being committed to trial in the Supreme Court in 2006. Ian Currie/Newspix
Christine Knuckey, the mother of Carol Matthey who was wrongly accused of the murder of her four children. Peter Smith/Newspix
Berthe Climbié, whose daughter, Victoria, was abused and tortured by Marie-Therese Kouao and Carl Manning for months before the child’s eventual death in 2000.
Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images
Gunn-Britt Ashfield, now known as Angelic Karstrom, who murdered her six-year-old son John in 1993.
David Motte/Newspix
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Table of Contents
Cover
About the Book
Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Chapter 1 Asking the Whys of the World
Chapter 2 Lindy Chamberlain (1980)
Chapter 3 Kathleen Folbigg (1989–1999)
Chapter 4 Rachel Pfitzner (2007)
Chapter 5 Kristi Abrahams (2010)
Chapter 6 Keli Lane (1996)
Chapter 7 Carol Matthey (1998–2003)
Chapter 8 The World Gone Wrong
Chapter 9 Men Are from Mars
Chapter 10 The End of My Journey
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
About the Author
Picture Section
Copyright Notice
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