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True and Amazing Stories Episode 3: Eliza Batman

Her neighbours knew her as Sarah Willoughby but the woman they found brutally beaten to death in Geelong in 1852 had a secret past none could have imagined. She was born Eliza Callaghan, became a convict and later married Melbourne pioneer John Batman. Love, secrets, betrayal, murder – this story has it all.  
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