The Queensland Backpacker Murder Of Mia Ayliffe-Chung

True Crime Conversations · Apr 21, 2021 · 24m

It’s August 23, 2016, in a sleepy Queensland town named Home Hill, south of Townsville. Shelley’s Backpackers is a modest hostel in the small regional town, where backpackers on working holiday visas stay while completing their mandatory farm work. The days are long. And hot. They see snakes and operate heavy machinery without any training. Aren’t those brown snakes meant to be deadly, they think to themselves. At night, they sleep in dormitories, some sharing rooms with strangers. On the evening of August 23, a few of the British backpackers go to the pub. They have a few…