Best of 2023: Was the woman dubbed Australias worst female serial killer wrongly convicted?
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\\nMost Australians know the name Lindy Chamberlain. She\\u2019s famously the victim of what\\u2019s been called \\u201cthe most notorious miscarriage of justice\\u201d in Australian legal history. She was wrongfully convicted of murdering her nine-week old daughter, Azaria, during a camping trip at Uluru, and sentenced to life in prison.
But how many people know about the murder conviction inquiry that\\u2019s going on right now that could, as one expert put it recently, make the Chamberlain case pale into insignificance?
On this episode, legal affairs reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald, Michaela Whitbourn, on the inquiry that could change the way our legal system handles evidence in murder trials. And why the diaries of Newcastle mother Kathleen Folbigg, which were once used to help convict her of murder, might now be the very thing to set her free.
This episode first aired on March 30, 2023.
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