Outback Coroner
Navigating time, distance, suspicion, and culture in search of answers, coroners in the Australian outback investigate violent and unexplained deaths.
- 2013-2014
- 1 season
- Documentary
Navigating time, distance, suspicion, and culture in search of answers, coroners in the Australian outback investigate violent and unexplained deaths.
Season 1 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 2013 - 2014
Episode 1
Witham
50 mins
In May 2011, the Northern Territory Coroner, Greg Cavanagh, was forced to officially close Mount Bundy Cattle Station due to a death attributed to arsenic poisoning. What ensued was a series of events that brought into question the validity of two government investigations across two state borders that nearly destroyed a family and crippled their business.
Episode 2
Gadd Knight
50 mins
Episode 3
Clitheroe and Tucker
51 mins
A camping trip on island waters near Inverell, NSW goes seriously wrong when the group's boat overturns, claiming the lives of Jane Clitheroe and four-year-old Elizabeth Tucker. Grieving families relive the experience as Magistrate and Moree Coroner Michael Holmes ensures a tragedy like this never happens again.
Episode 4
Cooke and Howell
50 mins
Episode 5
Troppo/Whayman & Clarke
50 mins
Tasmanian Magistrate and Coroner Stephen Carey investigates a tragic marine accident involving two cray fishermen off the coast of Port Davey and Northern Territory Coroner Greg Cavanagh conducts an inquiry into a fatal road accident involving three of Australia's most eminent architects.
Episode 6
Rowcliff and Autopsy
Episode 7
Menrath and Fraser and Joblin and Maddern
50 mins
In the northern town of Burnie, Tasmania, Magistrate and Coroner Don Jones inquires into two coronial cases - a retired hobby farmer whose car was hit by a freight train and the unresolved disappearance of bushwalker Susan Maddern. Meanwhile, NSW Deputy State Coroner Paul MacMahon conducts an inquest into a young family who died in a light plane crash.