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IMOGEN CARN: I used to tell people when I first met them, and I'm like what I'm about to tell you, you would not even read about, it was so horrific.
I didn't see any warning flags because that was Vanessa. Vanessa would find a new friend, she’d go through an intense period with that person, and come out the other side of it and that's, that's sort of who she was.They were both in their second marriage, and they each had two young daughters.IMOGEN CARN: There was one day I came home with Chris and my mum was just beside herself.
EMILY BAKER: There are professional standards that govern the relationship between psychologists and their clients.CAROLYN QUADRIO, PSYCHIATRIST: There needs to be a two-year period since the therapy ended and the relationship begins. DINAH TAPRELL: There were times when Vanessa was so, so distraught, and she’d get sick. And then she go, and she said, "Well, I have to get better because I have to look after Karen."The pair bonded over similar upbringings.
DINAH TAPRELL: Imogen rang me and said those photos that Karen has been posting on Facebook, I've got evidence that that's not Karen.EMILY BAKER: Vanessa and Karen’s relationship deteriorated. DINAH TAPRELL: I had a conversation with her where we were talking about Karen's explanations for these anomalies of, how could this photo be of Karen when it's of this person and there was wasn't just one.EMILY BAKER: Vanessa O’Connell took her own life in 2020.She returned to Karen’s Facebook posts.
Five months after her mother’s death, Imogen made a complaint to the Health Care Complaints Commission, which investigates health professionals in New South Wales.
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