Debi Marshall Investigates Frozen Lies

A killer is on the loose in an Australian country town. Excited for the June long weekend, bubbly 23-year-old Rachelle Childs leaves work, calls her sister, and is dead within hours. Her burning, partially naked body is found nine hours later in bushland on a lonely coastal road. Her killer has never been caught. Now innocent people, once too afraid to speak, are breaking their silence. If you&rsq...

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In the gripping final episodes of FROZEN LIES, Debi engages the help of criminal profiler Kris Illingsworth to meticulously examine crime-scene evidence from the murder of Derrance Stevenson. In a tense interview, Debi outlines her evidence to David Szach and ultimately reaches the truth of who killed Derrance and why. David’s lawyer, Tony Kerin, maps out the appeal process that lies ahe...

Debi dives deep into the realm of Bevan Spencer Von Einem. She meets his school friend, Paul Clark, who shares an extraordinary collection of newspaper clippings and cards curated by von Einem himself. They present a chilling snapshot into the mind of a killer. After decades of silence, Richard Kelvin’s best friend, Karl Brooks, speaks about the night Richard was abducted and the de...

This episode centres around exploring everything Debi can learn about Gino Gambardella, the man who links the case of Derrance Stevenson and The Family. Debi speaks with two victims of Gino’s sexual assault at his Chiropractic clinic, who talk publicly for the first time about their ordeal. Debi describes her hunt to find Gino and when she finally tracks him down the outcome is explosive...

Sonya Muir, the daughter of the second Family murder victim, Neil Muir, breaks her life-long silence about her father. She shares with Debi her memories of Neil, of why he was so loved by friends and family, and how her family experienced the shock and heartache of his brutal murder. Sonya explains her immense frustration that no one has been brought to justice for what happened to Neil,...

Following Debi's call out for other victims, witnesses and perpetrators to come forward, Debi starts the episode with Darren, who explains how he made a lucky escape from von Einem and another man in costume when he was hitchhiking in Adelaide at 17 years of age. Then Debi and director of the TV series Chris Thorburn, return to the David Szach investigation to deep dive into the life of murder vic...

Debi explains where her investigation into true crime began, with the tragic realisation of her own partner's murder in 1992 and her hunt for the man responsible. She is joined by the director of the TV series Chris Thorburn to chat through the explosive reinvestigation from the five part Foxtel series, with the discovery of a lawyer in a kitchen freezer in Adelaide 1979. Having served 14 years in...

Debi travels to Sydney in the hope of finding Lewis Turtur, the only identity alive from the revoked suppressions. Turtur's last known address appears abandoned but a series of telephone calls leads Debi to the man himself. Turtur agrees to meet with Debi and breaks his year-long silence. In an extraordinary interview, Turtur details his relationship with von Einem, describes what he witnessed and...

Debi's attempting a journalistic feat; to overturn decades-old suppression orders in the hope of revealing the explosive truth behind 'The Family’. Debi talks to veteran journalist Peter Haran on the shocking extent of The Family’s alleged crimes; speaks with a survivor who shares for the first time, his harrowing story of narrowly escaping von Einem's clutches and meets the sister of 'The Family'...

Launching September 17th 
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