Listen now to the second episode of the podcast investigation on the Robert Farquharson case – and the serious questions about the science that helped convict him.
we tease apart the strands of scientific evidence that were so important in the case against Robert Farquharson, who’s serving 33 years for murdering his three children.Robert Farquharson’s trial for murder is what legal experts call a “strands of the rope case”. It describes how a prosecutor can weave a whole bunch of disparate threads of evidence together to form a single, coherent story.
In cases like this, no single strand, or thread of the evidence can carry enough weight on its own for a jury to say, “the accused is definitely guilty”. But woven together the rope is strong enough, metaphorically, to hang you. This episode explores the first three of what I reckon are six strands in the rope of the case – the science.– There is a small puzzling similarity between two unrelated fatal car crashes: why did drivers turn everything off in their sinking cars?is a senior writer and former deputy editor and investigations editor of The Age. He has worked in Canberra, Melbourne and Jakarta, has written two books and won multiple awards for journalism, including the Gold Walkley.
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