Trace : who killed Maria James / Rachael Brown
- Bib ID:
- 8038089
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Brown, Rachel, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- [Brunswick, Victoria] : Scribe, 2018
- Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2018
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- ISBN:
- 9781925693218 (EPUB)
- Summary:
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The riveting inside story of a journalist's cold-case investigation of a shocking murder Every cop has a case that dug its claws in and would not let go. For veteran detective Ron Iddles, it was his very first homicide case - the 1980 murder of single mother Maria James in the back of her Melbourne bookshop. He never managed to solve it, and it still grates like hell. Maria's two sons, Mark and Adam, have lived in a holding pattern longer than Rachael Brown has been alive. When the investigative journalist learned that a crucial witness's evidence had never seen daylight, the case would start to consume her - just as it had the detective nearly four decades prior - so she asked for his blessing, and that of the James brothers, to review Maria's case. In her exhaustive and exhausting 16-month investigation for the ABC podcast Trace, Rachael reviewed initial suspects, found one of her own, and uncovered devastating revelations about a forensic bungle and possible conspiracies that have inspired the coroner to consider holding a new inquest. This is a mesmerising account, as Rachael traces back through her investigation - one that blew the dust off a 38-year-old cold case, gave a voice to the forgotten and the abused, and could have serious implications for two of the state's most powerful institutions.
- Awards:
- Winner, Walkley Innovation award, 2017.
- Subject:
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- True crime stories
- Australia
- Child abuse
- Crime & criminology
- Criminal investigation & detection
- Language Arts & Disciplines - Journalism
- News media & journalism
- Press & journalism
- Social Science - Criminology
- Social Science / Violence In Society
- True Crime - Murder
- True crime
- Violence & abuse in society
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Scribe
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 70 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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