Meadow's Law: The true story of Kathleen Folbigg and the science that set her free by an award winning...

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Quentin McDermott

Meadow's Law

The true story of Kathleen Folbigg and the science that set her free by an award winning journalist...

Quentin McDermott

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ABC
01 February 2025

Biography; Biography: general; True crime; Criminal investigation & detection; Forensic science; Police procedures

For readers of THE TEACHER'S PET and MISSING WILLIAM TYRELL.

It's the maxim that every true-crime lover knows: One infant's death in a family is a tragedy. Two is suspicious. And three must be murder. But in 2003 the widely accepted mantra of Meadow's Law helped put an innocent woman, Kathleen Folbigg, behind bars for the next 20 years.

Written by the journalist who helped overturn her wrongful convictions, this is the story of one of Australia's most infamous criminal cases.

In 2003, Newcastle mother Kathleen Folbigg was found guilty of smothering her four young children to death, one by one. Medical experts told her trial that they had never come across a family like hers, where three or more infants had died from natural causes.

Extracts from diaries she had written were judged to be virtual admissions to killing the children, and Kathy was sentenced to 40 years in jail.

This book tells the extraordinary story of Kathleen Folbigg's tragic early life, how her children's deaths and her diaries condemned her, and how a dedicated but disparate team of friends, supporters, lawyers and scientists fought for years to achieve her eventual pardon, release and acquittal two decades later.

It is also a remarkable story of science versus the law.

By: Quentin McDermott
Imprint: ABC
Country of Publication: Australia
ISBN: 9780733342912
ISBN 10: 0733342914
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 01 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Award-winning investigative journalist Quentin McDermott has worked in magazines, newspapers and television. Following six years at Granada Television in the UK, he joined the ABC as a supervising producer on Lateline before joining Four Corners in 2000 as a senior investigative reporter and producer. He is the producer of the critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story. At Australian Story his story on convicted serial killer Kathleen Folbigg triggered a judicial inquiry in 2017, and he has covered her story for The Australian ever since.