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 which included Estelle’s award of 2010.
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 an innocent man sentenced to a long prison term for murder and by overturning or at least revealing doubt about the cause of what’s known …
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.
After the Night
Estelle Blackburn – historical consultant to the four-part Stan Original Series After the Night will depict the horrifying true story of Eric Edgar Cooke, one of Australia’s most notorious and deadliest serial killers. Throughout the 1960s Eric Edgar Cooke terrorised the city of Perth and its residents, cruelly and indiscriminately, …
Call for new inquiry into air disaster
Today’s 80th anniversary of a Canberra plane crash that changed Australia’s political history, and a new revelation about who may really have been at the controls, has prompted calls for a new inquiry.
Meeting kindred innocence crusaders in UK, USA and Canada
Estelle met fellow-crusaders in USA, Canada and the UK after winning a 2007 Churchill Fellowship to study the non law school-based models of organisations that work for the wrongfully-convicted. In USA, she looked into the extra-curricular Northern Arizona Justice Project at the Northern Arizona University, the journalism-driven Innocence Institute of …