The Murder of Betty Shanks

Dec 23, 2025
56 mins

Episode Description

On the night of September 19, 1952, 22 year old Betty Shanks stepped off a tram in the Brisbane suburb of Grange and began the short walk home to her parents’ house, less than 400 metres away. Within minutes, she was violently attacked and killed, her body discovered the following morning in a neighbour’s garden. More than seventy years later, her murder remains Queensland’s oldest unsolved homicide, defined by a narrow twelve minute window, unanswered questions, and a truth that has never been fully uncovered.

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