In October 2015, twelve-year-old Tiahleigh Palmer was reported missing from her foster home in Logan, Queensland. Six days later, her remains were found in a river. Her foster father stood as a pallbearer at her funeral, nearly a year before anyone knew he had killed her.

This episode goes forensically through the case: a five-year history of placement instability, a foster carer approval process that missed a twenty-year criminal record, a household that specifically requested "high needs" children for higher payments, and a family conspiracy that held for almost a year. We break down the exact points where Queensland's child safety system could have changed the outcome, and the reforms that followed her death.

Content warning: this episode discusses child sexual abuse and murder.

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