Crime
Station:
All 4 (GB)
Status:
Ended
Start:
2020-06-07
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On July 14th, 2001, 27-year-old English backpacker Joanne Lees flagged down a truck on a lonely stretch of the Stuart Highway in central Australia. She had a horror story to tell. According to Lees, in the dead of night, she and her boyfriend Peter Falconio had been attacked on the highway. She claimed Falconio had been shot and she had been bound before escaping into desert scrub.Tapping into long held fears about the Australian outback, the story created a firestorm of tabloid headlines in the UK and Australia. International tourists stayed away from the Northern Territory as a massive police manhunt went nowhere for 16 months. That is until a tip-off led to a small-time drug runner, Bradley John Murdoch, being arrested. Murdoch flatly denied it all, but the jury disagreed and found him guilty of murder, sentencing him to life in prison.For some experts and onlookers, the guilty verdict in Murdoch's murder trial has always felt clouded with doubt. In one of the most detailed re-investigations of the Falconio case ever mounted, Murder in the Outback: The Falconio and Lees Mystery, a new four-part series for Channel 4, will explore the details and the questions that surround this infamous case.
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S1E1 - Episode 1
Documentary examining the killing of British tourist Peter Falconio in Australia's Northern Territory in July 2001, exploring the details and questions that surround this infamous case. In this first episode, Andrew Fraser, formerly one of Australia's foremost criminal defence lawyers, begins the reinvestigation into the Peter Falconio story, visits the Outback crime scene and speaks to a leading forensic scientist and witnesses from the time of the murder, who raise serious questions about evidence in the case.
Air Date: 07 Jun 2020 06:00 (CDT)
S1E2 - Episode 2
A look at how sole eyewitness Joanne Lees came under immense scrutiny and pressure from both the British and Australian press as they hounded her continuously for an interview, while certain detectives were also sceptical of her version of events. The programme includes detailed sections of a video showing Joanne being confronted by detectives about seeming inconsistences in her account of the attack.
Air Date: 07 Jun 2020 06:00 (CDT)
S1E3 - Episode 3
In the third episode, former criminal defence lawyer Andrew Fraser questions the verdict of the murder trial, that saw Bradley Murdoch found guilty of murder. The programme examines other potential suspects, including an eyewitness account of a couple talking to a man who matched the police description of the killer, as well as considering theories that Falconio is still alive, since his body was never found and several people have reported encountering him.
Air Date: 07 Jun 2020 06:00 (CDT)
S1E4 - Episode 4
Documentary examining the killing of British tourist Peter Falconio in Australia's Northern Territory in July 2001, exploring the details and questions that surround this infamous case. The concluding episode examines how DNA found on Joanne Lees' shirt and the couple's Kombi van were decisive in the murder trial of Bradley Murdoch, but even with this evidence, there are serious questions still to be answered in this controversial case.
Air Date: 07 Jun 2020 06:00 (CDT)