Shandee's Story
A TRUE CRIME PODCAST BY HEDLEY THOMAS
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Shandee's Story is investigated and written by Hedley Thomas.
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Additional reporting by David Murray and Isaac Irons.
Additional research by Isaac Irons.
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STORIES FROM THIS EPISODE
Detectives forensically examining Shandee’s iPhone uncover thousands of text messages and evidence of fierce rows between John Peros and Shandee in the year before she died. Unresolved trust issues plague John and Shandee’s toxic love as Shandee begs John to stop telling her to kill herself while John demands to be left alone. John visits mental health professionals after breaking up with Shandee and talks of a difficult childhood. Shandee’s friends on the Gold Coast say they heard fierce and abusive rows between John and Shandee sent over a voice-messaging app called HeyTell.
Toxic Love
EPISODE 3
Episode 3 is available now exclusively to subscribers to
The Australian via the podcast player in The Australian app.
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STORIES FROM THIS EPISODE
Detectives forensically examining Shandee’s iPhone uncover thousands of text messages and evidence of fierce rows between John Peros and Shandee in the year before she died. Unresolved trust issues plague John and Shandee’s toxic love as Shandee begs John to stop telling her to kill herself while John demands to be left alone. John visits mental health professionals after breaking up with Shandee and talks of a difficult childhood. Shandee’s friends on the Gold Coast say they heard fierce and abusive rows between John and Shandee sent over a voice-messaging app called HeyTell.
Toxic Love
EPISODE 3
Shandee's Story
A TRUE CRIME PODCAST BY HEDLEY THOMAS
Shandee's Story
A TRUE CRIME PODCAST BY HEDLEY THOMAS
Episode 5 is available now exclusively to subscribers to
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• Claims prince of trouble said ‘I did it’ ›
• Knives were out for Shandee target ›
• ‘It’s a conspiracy, I’m being set up’ ›
• Key people in Episode 5 ›
STORIES FROM THIS EPISODE
A violent self-styled gangster who carries knives, deals and uses illegal drugs, and attacks men and women in the sugar and mining town looms into serious view for homicide cops. William Daniel is a young man with a long criminal record who calls himself ‘The Black Prince’ and ‘Willy D’ and has become a public menace in Mackay’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. He denies involvement in Shandee’s murder - but his friend Levii Blackman discloses that William said he’d done it. Levii later said it was probably a joke while police suspected it was a ‘throwaway line’ by a show-off - but his use of knives and other factors make him a major target in a police investigation still locked on John Peros.
Sugar Town
EPISODE 5
Willy D
