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Dying Rose
Police wall of silence ‘lets families down’ after six women’s deaths
While investigating the harrowing deaths of six Aboriginal women, The Advertiser was met with a wall of silence from authorities. Indigenous leaders say that needs to change.
Dying Rose podcast: Listen to all the episodes here
A gripping new podcast investigating the deaths of six women as their families question how they died – and whether police did everything they could to find answers.
Coroner intervenes after podcast unearths new evidence
A distraught dad was left with haunting unanswered questions after his daughter’s body was found being eaten by dogs – but now he has fresh hope for answers.
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Shocking police reaction to teen girl’s death in men’s toilet
Charli was just 17 when she was found dead in a toilet block by her abusive boyfriend. What police did next left her mum horrified and angry.
Former cop lashes police over teen’s death in men’s toilet
A former cop has slammed the investigation into 17-year-old Charli’s death – and revealed how her violent boyfriend, in jail for 76 unrelated offences, reacted in court.
Harrowing arrest footage as sister lay dead
Shocking video has captured a man’s violent police arrest just metres from the body of his 23-year-old sister who just killed herself.
Cops dragged out screaming brother as Shanarra’s body lay metres away
A mum claims her family has endured “years of trauma” after police barged into their home and arrested her son – moments after his sister took her own life. Listen to the podcast episode.
Police denied mum her dead daughter’s phones – then destroyed them
A grieving mother believed her daughter’s phones could unlock what really happened the night she died, but police refused to hand them over.
Cops admit mum’s death in rubbish-filled carpark was ‘unusual’
When a mum-of-two’s body was found on an embankment by her drug-using boyfriend, her family feared foul play. But cops disagreed, and her family say they wrote off their concerns.
Ex’s shock drug confession after mum’s death
The ex-boyfriend of a mother of two who died with a huge level of meth in her system has made a shock drug confession.
‘We weren’t listened to’: Mum’s battle with cops over daughter’s death
The mother of a woman who died on the side of busy Port Wakefield Rd says police wouldn’t follow up on her death – no matter how much information she gave them.
Mum’s body found being eaten by dogs
When a man wandered into the backyard of the family home, nothing could have prepared him for what he discovered.
Mystery over 15 days before mum’s death
A young mum sent a haunting last message to her sister before she disappeared – but family pleas for help from police fell on deaf ears.
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