Wrong Skin: a relationship banned under traditional law. An investigation into an unsolved suspicious death and a missing person in the Australian outback.
Virginia Giuffre was fearless in taking down some of the world’s most powerful people. As Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent victim, she helped expose his crimes and hold his friends to account, including the man formerly known as Prince Andrew. But despite her heroic battle in the most notorious sex trafficking case of the 21st century, few knew about one of her toughest fights. It was one she fought privately at home in Australia.
Follow The Age and SMH Investigates to be first to listen to new episodes of Virginia (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/virginia-i-the-age-smh-investigates/id1616444281)from Walkley-award winning journalist Melissa Fyfe and WA Today reporter Carla Hildebrandt.
Read the Good Weekend feature (https://www.smh.com.au/national/isolated-scared-forlorn-the-heartbreaking-final-months-of-virginia-giuffre-s-life-20260629-p60avr.html) or our visual story (https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2026/giuffre-timeline/) which chronicles the harrowing final months of Virginia Giuffre's life as her marriage unravelled. Visit our websites at smh.com.au (http://smh.com.au), theage.com.au (http://theage.com.au) and watoday.com.au (http://watoday.com.au), and send questions, information and feedback to virginiapodcast@nine.com.au (mailto:virginiapodcast@nine.com.au)
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2 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT
Introducing: Diagnosing Murder
For decades, families in Australia and overseas, have been accused of one of the worst crimes imaginable – child abuse. Diagnosing Murder is an investigative podcast about parents who've had their children taken away, sat in the dock and even done time in prison. All for something they insist they didn't do – shake their baby. Can we trust the science behind shaken baby syndrome? Or are innocent people being locked up for a crime they never committed?
Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diagnosing-murder/id1843555473 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diagnosing-murder/id1843555473)
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3LqYqSCZHW4vtA0yhiaJKB?si=f8c56f4b638b4a24 (https://open.spotify.com/show/3LqYqSCZHW4vtA0yhiaJKB?si=f8c56f4b638b4a24)
Listen on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrLulycax358g-04ndbBaBg3ED4Dnyv0S&si=CVXIqoUI6AJ6DD5x (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrLulycax358g-04ndbBaBg3ED4Dnyv0S&si=CVXIqoUI6AJ6DD5x)
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19 May 2025TRANSCRIPT
Coming soon - the 40/20 NRL podcast
This podcast episode previews the new 40/20 NRL podcast from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, promising insights into rugby league news and performances.
26 May 2024TRANSCRIPT
Introducing: Trial by Water
From The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, Trial by Water is a new investigative podcast series about Robert Farquharson, who has been locked up for decades for an unthinkable crime: murdering his three sons in a dam on Father’s Day, 2005.
Now scientists and lawyers are asking the question: did we get it wrong? And is this man in prison for a crime he didn’t commit?
Episode 1 will arrive on Saturday, June 1.
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18 Jun 2019
'We don’t give up' - New movement from WA police
After interviewing 50 witnesses and arresting 2 suspects, Cold Case detectives have handed the cases of the death of Julie Buck and presumed death of her boyfriend, Richard Milgin, to the WA coroner.
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3 Dec 2018
Update - Police seize land council chief's old Toyota
West Australian police have seized a Toyota Troop Carrier registered to Kimberley Land Council chairman Anthony Watson as part of a cold case inquiry into the suspicious death of a young woman and disappearance of her boyfriend in 1994.
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3 Aug 2018
Episode six: Truth
Wrong Skin: a relationship banned under traditional law. Julie Buck's daughter, Zaria Buck, gives a chilling account of the last time she saw her mum alive in the wet season of 1994.
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27 Jul 2018
Episode five: Winners & Losers
The worlds of money and spirituality clash, and the haves and have-nots are moving further apart.
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23 Jul 2018
Episode four: A Fair Old Thrashing
A Toyota Troop Carrier that may be connected to the disappearance of Julie Buck and Richard Milgin has been traced to the chair of the Kimberley Land Council.
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19 Jul 2018
Episode three: The Troopy
Wrong Skin: a relationship banned under traditional law. The famous artist and elder Julie was promised to is eager to claim what he considered his.
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16 Jul 2018
Episode two: Big Mob of Lies
Wrong Skin: a relationship banned under traditional law. Police identify Julie’s body but are without an explanation as to how, or why she died, and stories emerge of Richard’s whereabouts.
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14 Jul 2018
Episode one: Richard & Julie
Wrong Skin: a relationship banned under traditional law. When a young couple disappeared in the wet season of 1994, it left a community wanting answers but many too frightened to ask.
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25 Jun 2018
Introducing - Wrong Skin
Wrong Skin: a relationship banned under traditional law. A new podcast from Richard Baker at The Age, Melbourne, investigating an unsolved, suspicious death and a missing person in the Australian outback.
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Inside a recent episode
Introducing: Diagnosing Murder
Published 2 Oct 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Overseas, convictions have been overturned. One American court even labeled Shaken Baby Syndrome junk science. Junk science law should force the conviction to be reconsidered. It has to do with Shaken Baby Syndrome, the traumatic brain injury it can cause. And a few now say it doesn't exist at all. […]
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