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 …

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, …

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 …