29 | Gladys, Ivy & Pauline: The Women of Melbourne’s Brownout
In this episode, Ally covers the murders of Gladys Hosking, Ivy McLeod, and Pauline Thompson in Melbourne, Australia, in 1942. With World War II drawing closer, the city had dimmed its streets to make them harder to spot from the air. Then women began turning up dead.
When Gladys’s body was discovered in Royal Park, she was the third woman found murdered in just over two weeks. We follow the investigation through wartime Melbourne while getting to know the women whose lives were taken.
Before the case, we talk about the struggle to write an original melody, our inability to finish…
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