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Think nothing ever happens in your town? Australia's suburbs are home to some of the most mysterious and disturbing true crime cases in the world.

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Shaken Baby Syndrome: How Certain Is the Diagnosis?

October 7, 2026

Meshel Laurie (0:03)

This is Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie.

Few areas of forensic medicine are more sensitive or more consequential than the question of how a baby suffered a serious brain injury. Journalist Michael Bachelard explores the controversial science behind shaken baby syndrome in his podcast Diagnosing Murder, investigating cases where parents and carers have been…

Michael Bachelard (1:23)

Well, there was kind of two things that made me decide to take it on. One was, I was aware there was this rash of cases in 2018, 2019 in Victoria.

Three cases where young men, boyfriends or partners of women with children, sometimes the father, sometimes not, they were put in jail for shaking their babies. And these three happened kind of in quick succession. All of them, the expert evidence was a woman called Dr. Joe Tully from the Victorian Forensic…

Meshel Laurie (2:37)

It's a very, very touchy subject, isn't it? And I know people who work at the mortuary too, the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, who have been involved in all of this and they're the same. It's like the incredibly touchy subject to bring up. These men are reviled in our community. The idea of a big, strong…

These are not sympathetic characters.

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