Robin Bowles

Accidental Death explores the reality of ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations when an accident upends their lives. This collection of stories centres on the idea of 'accidental death' and the upheaval caused in the lives of those who lose a loved one in this way. Several of the cases examined here turned out, on investigation, not to...

Don't fool yourself that the innocent never go to jail. When Bob Chappell disappeared from his yacht, moored in the Derwent Estuary near the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania's marina, on the night of 26 January 2009, he left behind his pipe and tobacco—something that his partner of 18 years, Sue Neill-Fraser, knew he would never willingly do. What she...

On 2 December 2010, the body of a 24-year-old woman was found at the bottom of the rubbish chute in the luxury Balencea tower apartments on St Kilda Road, Melbourne, twelve floors below the apartment she shared with her boyfriend, Antony Hampel. Within minutes, the sound of sirens filled the hall as police cars from the nearby police station filled...