The Dead Life with Allison DuBois
Jul 21, 2026 · 34 min · 11 segments
In 1984, Margaret Tapp and her nine-year-old daughter, Seana, were found strangled inside their Ferntree Gully home. More than four decades later, their murders remain unsolved, but this case was not…
Allison DuBoisHost
Sophia DuBoisHost
So th- it's Margaret and Shauna Tapp are the murder, uh, the murdered, uh, mother, daughter.
Shauna Tapp was nine and her mother, Margaret, was 35 when they were, uh, strangled to death.
So this case was very personal to me, as I've talked about, because it's a mother and daughter first of all, and the fact that the child was, um, SA'd before she was unalived [laughs] I guess is what people are saying now.
And so because in Australia it's a little harder for people to just shout out, shout it out-
So, um, you know, it was the night of August 7th, 1984, and if you wanna get the full live event that we covered everything chronologically from beginning to end with Margaret and Shauna Tapp's murders, uh, go to YouTube, um, like and subscribe, and check out those videos.
So th- it's Margaret and Shauna Tapp are the murder, uh, the murdered, uh, mother, daughter.
Shauna Tapp was nine and her mother, Margaret, was 35 when they were, uh, strangled to death.
So this case was very personal to me, as I've talked about, because it's a mother and daughter first of all, and the fact that the child was, um, SA'd before she was unalived [laughs] I guess is what people are saying now.
And so because in Australia it's a little harder for people to just shout out, shout it out-
So, um, you know, it was the night of August 7th, 1984, and if you wanna get the full live event that we covered everything chronologically from beginning to end with Margaret and Shauna Tapp's murders, uh, go to YouTube, um, like and subscribe, and check out those videos.
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