Show Notes
On Monday June 23, 1975, mother-of-three Shirley Finn lay slumped over the wheel of her white Dodge Phoenix in a glittering ball gown at the Royal Perth Golf Course.
The well know socialite, brothel madam and nightclub operator was shot four times in an execution style killing just days before she was set to blow the whistle at a hearing on illicit dealings by a number of high profile Perth politicians, businessmen and police officers.
Award winning journalist Juliet Wills spent 25 years gathering evidence, including interviews and witness reports to try and find out what really happened that night.
In episode three of Planet Perth, Jeff Bullen sits down with Juliet Wills, investigative journalist and author of Dirty Girl: The State Sanctioned Murder of Shirley Finn, a book which sparked an inquest into the cold case.
So what happened to Shirley and who was behind the grisly, high profile crime?
Planet Perth is an RTRFM podcast series about the weird, wacky and unexplained history of our eccentric city.
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3. Episode Three Shirley Finn FINAL
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