Episode 4: Policework

Phoebe's Fall by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

Oct 13, 201634:09News & Politics

We explore Phoebe's tumultuous last week and examine what she and her partner, Ant Hampel, did on her final day. Then we put the blowtorch to failings and omissions in the police investigation following her death, and th...

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