Phoebe's Fall

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

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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    Trial By Water, Episode 1: Father's Day

    On Father’s Day, 2005, Robert Farquharson crashed his car into a dam. He survived, but his three children who were in the car with him didn’t. At first it seemed like a tragic accident. But quickly, it turned into a murder investigation.

     

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    31 May 2024, 7:01 pm
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    Phoebe's Fall - New Laws
    Victorian Government announces reforms to Coroner's Act and Phobe's grandfather Lorne responds.  

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    22 June 2018, 6:16 am
  • 9 minutes 30 seconds
    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.

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    15 December 2016, 9:53 am
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    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.

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    27 October 2016, 4:00 am
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    Mini-episode: The mystery phone number and the litany of unanswered questions

    Seven months after Phoebe Handsjuk died, forensic scientists found a piece of paper in the pocket of the jeans she was wearing when she died. Whose number was it? And what did it mean?

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    25 October 2016, 3:00 am
  • 31 minutes 18 seconds
    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.

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    20 October 2016, 4:00 am
  • 4 minutes 54 seconds
    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.

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    19 October 2016, 1:56 am
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    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.

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    13 October 2016, 4:00 am
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    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.

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    11 October 2016, 3:00 am
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    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.

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    6 October 2016, 4:00 am
  • 26 minutes 12 seconds
    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.

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    28 September 2016, 11:30 pm
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