Season 3 · Episode 25
Murdered by a Killer that Walked Free _ The Case of Sarah Cafferkey
In this harrowing true crime episode, we explore the tragic murder of 22-year-old Sarah Cafferkey in Melbourne, Australia — a life cut short by a violent repeat offender who had just finished a period of parole. On November 10, 2012, Sarah was fatally...
February 16, 202624m 14s
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Show Notes
In this harrowing true crime episode, we explore the tragic murder of 22-year-old Sarah Cafferkey in Melbourne, Australia — a life cut short by a violent repeat offender who had just finished a period of parole. On November 10, 2012, Sarah was fatally stabbed and bashed in an argument with Steven James Hunter, a man with a long history of violent crime.
ABC News
Hunter had previously served time for murdering another woman decades earlier but was released and on parole when he encountered Sarah. Less than two weeks after his parole ended, he brutally attacked her at his home in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, leaving her body in a wheelie bin, covered in concrete in a garage at Point Cook.
ABC News +1
Investigators and Sarah’s family questioned how someone with such a history could be free and unmonitored — prompting public debate about parole oversight and violent offender management in Australia.
ABC News
Hunter had previously served time for murdering another woman decades earlier but was released and on parole when he encountered Sarah. Less than two weeks after his parole ended, he brutally attacked her at his home in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, leaving her body in a wheelie bin, covered in concrete in a garage at Point Cook.
ABC News +1
Investigators and Sarah’s family questioned how someone with such a history could be free and unmonitored — prompting public debate about parole oversight and violent offender management in Australia.
Topics
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