The Shandee Blackburn Story | The Evidence That Failed Her

In February 2013, 23-year-old Shandee Blackburn finished a late shift in Mackay and began the short walk home. She never reached the front door. This episode follows her final known movements, the investigation, John Peros’s 2017 acquittal, the later coronial findings and the forensic DNA failures that helped force Queensland’s state-run laboratory system into the light. Content note: homicide, grief, intimate-partner allegations, criminal proceedings, coronial findings and forensic DNA failures. Injury details are non-graphic.