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FORENSICS | The Headless Body in the Mineshaft
Season 3 · Episode 225

FORENSICS | The Headless Body in the Mineshaft

Crime Insiders · LiSTNR

July 6, 202533m 34sExplicit

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Show Notes

In the winter of 1988, two gold prospectors were scouring the picturesque Mount Firebrace in Victoria… when their search unearthed something far more chilling than treasure. Inside a disused mine shaft, they found a decomposed, mummified, headless body. 

For local police and Melbourne’s elite homicide squad, it was a mystery frozen in time.

Could forensics bring the truth to light?

That's what today’s guest, forensic pathologist Professor David Ranson, set out to uncover.

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Topics

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