Join Rachael Brown, Kate Wild and Maryrose Cuskelly with Vikki Petraitis at the Sisters in Crime event True Crime: Digging Out the Truth. They will be discussing how persistence and perspicacity pay off when it comes to investigating crime.
Rachael Brown
Last year, journalist Rachael Brown made headlines with her cold-case investigation into the murder of single mother Maria James at her Thornbury bookshop in 1980. Using this material, she created the ABC’s first true-crime podcast, Trace, which has since been published in book format by Scribe Publications.
In her exhaustive and exhausting 16-month investigation, Rachael reviewed initial suspects, found one of her own, and uncovered devastating revelations about a forensic bungle and possible conspiracies that led to calls for the coroner to hold a new inquest.
Rachael has won numerous awards as an Australian broadcast journalist. Rachael has won numerous awards as an Australian broadcast journalist. Trace has won Walkley and Quill awards.
Kate Wild
Waiting for Elijah by Kate Wild is the culmination of her six-year investigation into the 2009 police shooting in Armidale of Elijah Holcombe, a mentally ill young man – an investigation that not only seeks to answer questions, but also to pose some vitally important ones of its own.
Kate is an investigative journalist whose work with distinguished teams at the ABC has been recognised with three Walkley Awards and a Logie. Her reports from Darwin, where she lived from 2010 to 2016, laid the groundwork for a Four Corners story on juvenile detention that prompted the calling of a Royal Commission. Waiting for Elijah is her first book.
