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SYNOPSIS FOR: Murder in the Outback

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Murder in the Outback is based on the true story of the murder of British tourist Peter Falconio in the Australian Outback in 2001 and the way that the case was subsequently played out in the media. Falconio and his girlfriend Joanne Lees were travelling along a remote Outback highway and were flagged down where Falconio was then shot and Lees grabbed and thrown in the back of the attacker’s vehicle. She managed to escape and hid in the roadside brush. But after police were alerted, much scorn was poured on Joanne Lees’ story the claimed impossibility of freeing herself with her hands tied behind her back, the difficulty of remaining hidden in the sparse roadside brush while Murdoch was supposedly searching for her with a dog and spotlight, the fact that she would have been unable to escape out the back of the type of vehicle that Murdoch had.

Genre: Drama