# Neil Mercer

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True Crime Tuesday with Author and Journalist Neil Mercer – Neil's New Book Falsely Convicted + The Josephine Greensill Case

True Crime Tuesday with Author and Journalist Neil Mercer to chat about his new book Falsely Convicted and the cases the book entails. 00:00 LAUNCH OF THE NEW BOOK  01:00 DISCUSSING NINE WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENTS  02:00 WHY THESE CASES GO WRONG?   04:00 ISSUES WITH DEFENCE LAWYERS  05:00 JOSEPH…

FALSELY CONVICTED: How Australia’s broken legal system is locking up innocent people

Walkley Award-winning journalist Neil Mercer joined Gary Hardgrave to discuss his book Falsely Convicted, drawing on childhood memories of notorious serial killings in Perth and Sydney to examine Australia's deeply flawed legal landscape. Together, they expose how forensic failures, racial prejud…

‘Falsely Convicted’ with Neil Mercer: True Stories of Injustice in Australia

From unvetted science to coerced confessions, catastrophic failures in Australia's justice system have stolen decades from innocent people for crimes they didn't commit. In this episode Xanthe and Tim sit down with Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist Neil Mercer to discuss his new book, …

Shortcut: Going to Jail for a Crime You Didn't Commit

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. We like to believe our justice system gets it right, but what happens when the people behind bars are innocent? In Falsely Convicted, investigative journalist Nei…

Going to Jail for a Crime You Didn't Commit

We like to believe our justice system gets it right, but what happens when the people behind bars are innocent? In Falsely Convicted, investigative journalist Neil Mercer examines the shocking miscarriages of justice that have seen innocent people imprisoned for years or even decades, and joins us…

How an innocent man ended up in prison for 12 years: Neil Mercer Pt. 1

What happens when the justice system gets it catastrophically wrong? Neil Mercer has spent over five decades as a journalist unafraid of the hard stories, as evidenced in his latest book Falsely Convicted.  In this episode, Neil joins Gary to unpack two of Australia's most shocking miscarriages of…

The innocent cop falsely labelled as a serial rapist: Neil Mercer Pt. 2

Veteran journalist and author Neil Mercer returns to I Catch Killers for part two of his confronting examination of wrongful convictions in the Australian justice system.  In this episode, Neil and Gary Jubelin revisit one of the most embarrassing periods in NSW Police history: the case of Harry B…

E62 | Special | Sydney Unsolved - The Disappearance of Trudie Adams

Just after midnight, an eighteen year old left a dance at the Newport Surf Life Saving Club and walked out to Barrenjoey Road to hitchhike home to Avalon. Her boyfriend watched her get into a light coloured Holden panel van. Nobody has seen Trudie Adams since. In the weeks that followed, around fif…

Neil Mercer (Falsely Convicted)

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Josephine Greensill Was Wrongly Convicted Of Assaulting Her Students

In March 2008, 57-year-old semi-retired schoolteacher Josephine Greensill opened her front door in suburban Melbourne to find three detectives waiting to arrest her. Two men had accused her of sexually abusing them at a backyard sleepover almost 30 years earlier, when they were eight-year-old boys …