Your Stories: ‘My Great-Great Grandfather was a Serial Killer!’

In Victoria in September 1883, moments before he was hanged for murder, Robert Burns made a startling confession, claiming he’d killed not one but eight people. Flash forward 140 years and Bendigo woman Julie di Bella was researching her family history when she made a shocking discovery about her bloodline. Julie joins Forgotten Australia to talk about the thorniest branch in her family tree.


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The Murder Squad

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Hanging Ned Kelly

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Australia’s Sweetheart

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