You're Killing Me
In 1999, Craig Folbigg was going through boxes as his marriage collapsed. Somewhere in the house, his fourth child had just died. He was looking for something — anything — to make sense of it. He found a notebook. Then another. Handwritten diaries his wife had never shown him. He sat down and read them. Then he made a decision that would define the next twenty years of Kathleen Folbigg's life. Kathleen was convicted in 2003 of murdering three of her four children — Caleb, Patrick, Sarah, and Laura — who died between 1989 and 1999 in their New South Wales home. The case rested heavily on her diaries, on statistical improbability arguments, and on the now-discredited logic of Roy Meadow's Law: that lightning doesn't strike the same family four times. For twenty years, she was Australia's most reviled woman. Then a scientific inquiry, led by Nobel laureate Peter Doherty, identified genetic mutations in the children that could explain their deaths. On June 5, 2023, the NSW Governor pardoned Kathleen Folbigg. She had served twenty years for crimes science now says may never have happened. This episode traces the full story: Kathleen's violent beginnings — a father who murdered her mother when she was eighteen months old — four children, four deaths, a diary weaponised in a courtroom, and one of the most significant miscarriages of justice in Australian legal history. ⚠️ Trigger warnings: infant death, child loss, discussion of justice system failures. Kathleen Folbigg | Australian true crime | wrongful conviction | miscarriage of justice | SIDS | infant death | Roy Meadow's Law | Peter Doherty inquiry | NSW pardon 2023 | four babies | Craig Folbigg | CALM2 gene | Australia's worst female killer | true crime podcast | You're Killing Me
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