Case 191
Sheree Beasley
*** Content Warning: child sexual assault, child victims ***
Melbourne psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs was used to dealing with sex offenders. Many of her clients were men who had been referred to her through the court system after committing terrible crimes. But almost immediately upon meeting serial exhibitionist Robert Lowe, Margaret felt that there was something especially dangerous and unsettling about him.
Then, when a six-year-old girl named Sheree Beasley is suddenly snatched off a residential street in a sleepy seaside town, Margaret immediately suspects that her client Robert Lowe might know something about it…
CREDITS
EPISODE:
Research & writing – Erin Munro
Creative direction – Milly Raso
Narration – Anonymous Host
MUSIC:
‘Flatline intro’ and ‘Come play with me’ intro and outro – www.dl-sounds.com
Audio production – Mike Migas
Scoring – Mike Migas and Andrew Joslyn
OTHER:
Logo and website design – Paulina Szymanska
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RESOURCES
BOOKS
The Evil – Andrew Rule
DOCUMENTS
Confidentiality & disclosure of crime-related information
ONLINE ARTICLES
30 years on murder at the milk bar – New Idea
ARCHIVED ARTICLES
Police rule out abduction link – The Age
Test on suspect’s blood sample – The Age
Bush hunt for clues to Sheree’s murder – Sydney Morning Herald
Boy saw Sheree abduction – The Age
Search for car in kidnap girl hunt – The Age
‘It is all a bad dream’ – The Age
Court hears tape on Sheree plea – The Age
Mind games leave a new victim – The Age
Sheree: Lowe guilty of murder – The Age
The double life of a child’s killer – The Age
Prisoner pulls out of Sheree appeal move – The Age
Man to face Sheree murder trial – The Age