Show Notes
Kathleen Folbigg has served 20 years in prison for killing her four children.
She has continually professed her innocence.
An inquiry into her convictions re-commenced last week with scientific findings from November edging her closer than ever to a possible release.
So what happens next? And what’s the likely result from this latest inquiry?
Dr Sophie Calabretto talk to Cosmos Magazine journalist Matthew Agius about the latest developments in the Kathleen Folbigg story and the science that blew the case wide open two decades later. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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