Broken Lives – The book that exposed miscarriage of justice in Perth in the ‘60s and led to two wrongfully-convicted killers being exonerated four decades later.
Estelle has recorded why and how she went about her extraordinary work of investigative journalism, Broken Lives, in her memoir Writiing Broken Lives – an updated, republished The End of Innocence.
Estelle Blackburn is a writer who, with no experience of the law, made legal history by challenging the justice system and exposing two terrible injustices in the 1960s. Her relentless sleuthing led to the longest-standing convictions ever to be overturned in Australia when John Button and Darryl Beamish were exoneratedThings Estelle
Western Australian of the Year special 50th anniversary souvenir
On the 50th anniversary of the Western Australian of the Year awards on WA Day, 6 June 2022, The West Australian included a souvenir booklet...
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Canberra Air Disaster
Since moving to Canberra, Estelle has turned her energy and passion to doing what she can to rectify wrongful conviction in a Sydney case of...
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True-crime doco revisits Perth serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke
A chance meeting at a dance led journalist Estelle Blackburn into the case of serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke, who terrorised Perth in the 1960s, as well as two men who had been falsely convicted of Cooke's crimes.
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