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Phoebe's Fall

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A major investigation by The Age newsroom in Melbourne, Australia, into the death of Phoebe Handsjuk, who was found at the bottom of a garbage chute in a luxury apartment building.
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Phoebe's Fall - New Laws

Victorian Government announces reforms to Coroner's Act and Phobe's grandfather Lorne responds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 22, 2018•7 min

Phoebe's Fall - A Fresh Look

The Victorian Government has announced a review of the Coroner's Act amid widespread public concern about the inquest into Phoebe Handsjuk's garbage chute death. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 15, 2016•10 min

Episode 6: Inquest & Aftermath

We dissect the coroner's finding in Phoebe's case, raising serious questions about his conclusion and the methods he used to reach it. We examine the consequences of challenging a poor finding. And we reveal the Facebook post that prompted this podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 27, 2016•44 min

Episode 5: Saying Goodbye

Phoebe is remembered by her friends and family. We chronicle the competing memorials and funerals. And we journey to the shores of her Viking farewell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 20, 2016•31 min

No time of death for Phoebe

We explore the difficulties of establishing Phoebe's time of death, and a debate between police and doctors over the value of trying to estimate when somebody has died. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 19, 2016•5 min

Episode 4: Policework

We explore Phoebe's tumultuous last week and examine what she and her partner, Ant Hampel, did on her final day. Then we put the blowtorch to failings and omissions in the police investigation following her death, and the early conclusion that it was a suicide. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 13, 2016•34 min

Podcast prompts political action

Our investigative journalists Richard Baker and Michael Bachelard report back on the tip-offs we've received and the political developments triggered by Phoebe's Fall since we launched. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 11, 2016•3 min

Episode 3: A Secret Tape

Examines the state of Phoebe's mind and the relationship that dominated her life at the time of her death. We find evidence that she was planning to leave her partner, Ant Hampel. And we play audio of a secret recording made by Phoebe's mother of Ant's reaction to her death. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 06, 2016•29 min

Episode 2: The Chute

We walk through the final hours of Phoebe Handsjuk's life, challenge the plausibility of the coroner's findings, and examine the gruesome mechanics of her death in a chilling re-enactment. We also hear from a leading forensic pathologist whom we commissioned to review the evidence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 28, 2016•26 min

Episode 1: Knowing Phoebe

Starts with the mysterious and gruesome death of 24yo Phoebe Handsjuk and the open possibilities that it was either murder, suicide or a tragic accident. Then it steps back to hear from Phoebe herself and then her friends and family describe her many traits; her beauty, her art, her physical strength, her appetite for drugs and booze, her obsessions with forbidden men. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 22, 2016•24 min
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