Sep 13, 2026 · 17 min · 5 segments
Journalist Hedley Thomas joins us with a special insight into where his blockbuster podcast investigation The Poisoned Wife is heading. After the 1986 murder of Rosslyn McQueen, the Homicide Squad…
Hedley ThomasGuestClaire HarveyHost
And in the community of Lockwood, the tennis club is a significant feature of this narrative.
The arc of the story takes us through a farming community, through a little rural tennis club and into the homes of people who lived uncomplicated and I think in many ways more fulfilling lives until one day in April 1986 when Ros McQueen dies an agonising death in her home because of strychnine.
He's at work when he says he calls a neighbour to go to the house to check on Ros.
The neighbour finds her dead, bent backwards over a kitchen chair with her young daughter, Jodie, playing at her feet.
It's an absolutely horrific scene and as it unfolds, Ray is charged with murder.
Prosecutors made a tactical decision after some decisions by a judge that excluded some evidence that they would wait and try to establish more evidence before proceeding with that prosecution.
In fact, it hasn't happened yet, which means that this is still something that could be solved.
You're back in this story with lawyer-turned-producer Carina Berger investigating and trying to get some answers as to what happened to Ros.
Now, Ray McQueen has always denied any wrongdoing and denied it again to The Australian's Liam Mendes when he approached him on the outskirts of Melbourne just recently.
In a walk out of Supreme Court in Bendigo, after the military procedure was granted...
I was advised by my legal team to not ever to speak to the media.
Okay.
But did you
Hedley, one of the things that intrigues me in episode five, which our subscribers are hearing now, is that when he was initially questioned by police, Ray McQueen appears to attempt to throw the blame onto a neighbour of his.
And in the community of Lockwood, the tennis club is a significant feature of this narrative.
The arc of the story takes us through a farming community, through a little rural tennis club and into the homes of people who lived uncomplicated and I think in many ways more fulfilling lives until one day in April 1986 when Ros McQueen dies an agonising death in her home because of strychnine.
He's at work when he says he calls a neighbour to go to the house to check on Ros.
The neighbour finds her dead, bent backwards over a kitchen chair with her young daughter, Jodie, playing at her feet.
It's an absolutely horrific scene and as it unfolds, Ray is charged with murder.
Prosecutors made a tactical decision after some decisions by a judge that excluded some evidence that they would wait and try to establish more evidence before proceeding with that prosecution.
In fact, it hasn't happened yet, which means that this is still something that could be solved.
You're back in this story with lawyer-turned-producer Carina Berger investigating and trying to get some answers as to what happened to Ros.
Now, Ray McQueen has always denied any wrongdoing and denied it again to The Australian's Liam Mendes when he approached him on the outskirts of Melbourne just recently.
In a walk out of Supreme Court in Bendigo, after the military procedure was granted...
I was advised by my legal team to not ever to speak to the media.
Okay.
But did you
Hedley, one of the things that intrigues me in episode five, which our subscribers are hearing now, is that when he was initially questioned by police, Ray McQueen appears to attempt to throw the blame onto a neighbour of his.
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