Vanished West

In June 1988, twenty-two-year-old Julie Cutler left a work function at Perth’s Parmelia Hilton. Two days later, her Fiat was found upside down in the surf at Cottesloe Beach. Julie was gone. Decades later, an inquest confirmed she had died but could not say how. Lost evidence, unanswered calls, and the slow erosion of urgency turned her disappearance into one of Western Australia’s most haunting m...

In 2017, Carole Livesey — traveller, mentor, and self-described “life explorer” — vanished after walking away from Rockingham Hospital in Western Australia. This episode traces her extraordinary life and the systemic failings that followed, revealing how eating disorders can silence even the brightest voices.