Shandee's Story

Major forensics failures in a government-run laboratory seriously compromised the police investigation into Shandee’s murder, one of Australia’s most respected DNA experts finds. After months examinin...

19 Dec 20211h 7min

An increasingly paranoid John Peros cuts ties with former friends and records his conversations – a close friend tells police that John is “losing it” under the pressure of the intensifying investigat...

12 Dec 202155min

A violent self-styled gangster who carries knives, deals and uses illegal drugs, and attacks men and women in the sugar and mining town looms into serious view for homicide cops. William Daniel is a y...

5 Dec 20211h 1min

John Peros tells a friend he has entered “stealth mode”, purchasing a motor scooter, deleting social media and using a new phone as police obtain a warrant to search his property. Friends who socialis...

28 Nov 20211h 5min

Detectives forensically examining Shandee’s iPhone uncover thousands of text messages and evidence of fierce rows between John Peros and Shandee in the year before she died. Unresolved trust issues pl...

21 Nov 20211h 3min

Police detectives talk to Shandee’s former boyfriend, John Peros, who discloses his trust issues, their arguments, problems in the bedroom and break-up. John willingly goes to the police station to ma...

14 Nov 20211h 7min

Shandee Blackburn is a popular, outgoing young woman who lives with her mother Vicki in a Queensland town renowned for its sugar, Mackay. Shandee walks home at night from her coffee shop job sometimes...

7 Nov 20211h 5min

Shandee Blackburn was brutally murdered as she walked home from work - but this cold-case can still be solved. Gold Walkley Award-winning journalist Hedley Thomas - who created The Teacher’s Pet and T...

7 Okt 20211min