In 2006, underworld figure Lee Patrick Torney vanished without a trace. Nearly a year later, forensic anthropologist Dr. Soren Blau was lowered into an abandoned mineshaft outside the old gold-mining township of Chewton, near Castlemaine, Victoria. Soren pieced together the secret clues hidden on the surface of bones and what they showed about injuries and the circumstances of death.

Soren also revisits another landmark case that reshaped forensic science, with the first ever exhumation of a murder suspect in the United Kingdom.

Host Liz Porter sits down with Soren to find out how her pioneering use of familial DNA helped unmask a serial killer.

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In 2021, a neatly dressed man in his 60s walks into a Sydney Police Station. He looks like a regular guy. But police are stunned - this isn’t just any man. It’s Darko Desic. A fugitive who escaped from Grafton Prison with a hacksaw and bolt cutters three decades earlier. A man who was a prolific weed grower. A man who lived in hiding for 30 years - right under the noses of the police.

How did he do it? How did he evade capture for so long? And why, after all that time, did he finally give himself up?

That’s what journalist Tim Elliot set out to uncover in the latest season of LiSTNR’s documentary series, Secrets We Keep.

If you’re hooked and want more, click here to go straight to episode 2.

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Two people vanish without a trace from Logan, south of Brisbane in Queensland.

They hadn’t been seen in days. Their phones rang out. Their social media...silent.

Something had happened, but no one could possibly have predicted what was about to unfold…

This episode contains references to violent crime. If you or anyone you know needs assistance, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.

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