Tasmania’s Most Controversial Murder Conviction
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On the night of January 26, 2009, Bob Chappell disappeared from his yacht in Tasmania's Derwent Estuary. Police were alerted to trouble when the boat was seen sinking the next morning.

When they examined the scene there were signs of foul play... but no sign of Bob.

His partner Sue Neill-Fraser would soon become the prime suspect in Chappell's disappearance. But was her conviction sound?

Crime author Robin Bowles joins Gemma this week to discuss why many of Australia's leading legal minds have said her conviction is `the greatest miscarriage of justice since Lindy Chamberlain'. 

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**Guest: Robin Bowles, author of Death On The Derwent) & Collateral Damage) **which is available in store now.

**Host: **Gemma Bath)

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