Kathleen Folbigg was once branded Australia’s worst female serial killer, convicted of murdering her four children and locked away for 20 years. But she was innocent. In 2023, a breakthrough in genetics and the work of 90 leading scientists finally cleared Kathleen’s name and set her free. But her fight for justice isn’t over. The NSW government has now offered just $2 million in compensation, a figure that’s outraged her supporters and the Australian public. 

In this episode, we revisit the extraordinary case from the very beginning. Professor Stephen Cordner, one of the scientists who campaigned for Kathleen’s release, takes us inside the science, the battle against the legal system, and how one woman’s life was destroyed by a terrible miscarriage of justice.

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