Folbigg, now 55, was jailed in 2003 for a minimum of 25 years for the murder of her three children Patrick, Sarah and Laura, and manslaughter of a fourth Caleb.

Folbigg was released from Clarence Correctional Centre at Grafton at 11.25am on Monday June 5. She walked to freedom after spending 20 years behind bars.

You can isten to the whole story Kathleen Folbigg story, her incareration and now her release in our exclusive podcast “Mother’s Guilt”.

The Mother’s Guilt podcast traces the case from the 1960s, starting with Kathleen’s tragic start to life, through her childhood and teens and into her marriage to Craig and their four separate losses.

We hear from lifelong friends who know a very different Kathleen to the one presented in court.

We interrogate the Folbigg diary entries that were used to paint a picture of a woman guilty of killing her children and the new evidence that led to her release in one of the most extraordinary cases in Australian criminal history.

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Branded as Australia’s worst serial killer, Kathleen Folbigg has spent the past two decades in jail after being found guilty on three counts of murder and one of manslaughter. But did the justice system get it wrong? Four infants died unexpectedly and the finger of blame was pointed at one woman, but there was no forensic evidence of smothering.

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Born into violence and tragedy, with a father who killed her own mother, Kathleen became a ward of the state, but when she was fostered into the Marlborough family, she forged close friendships at school in Newcastle and a remarkable sisterhood was formed. They became friends for life. Karren Hall vividly recalls the time Kathleen’s fourth child Laura simply stopped breathing while in her care only a few months before the infant died.

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There were holes in the trial from the start. Laura, the fourth child to die had an obvious cause of death, but it was overlooked in favour of the now debunked Meadow’s Law of “one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder”. The theory of Professor Roy Meadow led to a handful of women being wrongly convicted of killing their children who died of SIDS. This is how science caught up with the unanswered questions in the case.

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Legal expert Dr Robert Moles digests the latest evidence and talks through the legal implications of the Folbigg case which he argues cannot stand under the current legal framework. “Bigger than the Lindy Chamberlain case’ in terms of injustice,” he says. Chamberlain was wrongly convicted of the murder of her daughter Azaria, who had in fact died as a result of being attacked and taken by a dingo.

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Kathleen Folbigg did not give evidence at her 2003 trial where her diaries were presented by the prosecution as incriminating evidence that she had killed her children by smothering them. We put her diaries to the test with a world expert and hear what Kathleen herself had to say about the entries and what they meant.

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What we learned from the first week of the latest inquiry into Kathleen Folbigg’s conviction to be presided over by former NSW Chief Justice Tom Bathurst.

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Did the police and prosecution pursuing Kathleen Folbigg for murder rely on a pseudo-scientific theory to explain her children’s deaths - and did that lead them to overlook other possible explanations? A second woman with a story that is eerily similar to Folbigg’s also shares her devastation at being denied access to her daughter after being labeled a child-killer due to the same, now-discredited theory.

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Cutting-edge science raises questions over the 20-year-old conviction of Kathleen Folbigg for killing four of her own children. As the inquiry chair accepts another explanation may be plausible, even critics of this new scientific evidence concede there is a possibility the law got it wrong.

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The inquiry has turned its attention to the diaries that helped to convict Kathleen Folbigg for the murder of her four children more than 20 years ago. But experts are reluctant to say definitively if Folbigg’s own reflections are evidence of her guilt – or if a rare genetic mutation could be to blame. In this case, you’ve got to get comfortable in the grey.

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In this bonus episode, journalists Jane Hansen and Dan Box sit down to discuss the extraordinary series of events that saw Kathleen Folbigg walk free from prison today after 20 years behind bars. The pair talk about how we got to this point, and what happens from here.

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