In Canberra in the 1970s and ’80s, David Eastman was thought of as a serial pest. That was until he was convicted of murdering the assistant commissioner of the Australian Federal Police. The problem was, he didn’t do it. Sam Vincent on a case that sent the wrong man to prison for 19 years. This is part one of a two-part episode.

Guest: Writer and journalist Sam Vincent.

Background reading:

The retrial of David Eastman in The Monthly

Cap in hand in The Monthly

The Saturday Paper

The Monthly

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