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The lab detective: how DNA breakthrough freed a mother jailed for killing her children

Rachel Sylvester

Rachel Sylvester

Political Editor

The lab detective: how DNA breakthrough freed a mother jailed for killing her children

Kathleen Folbigg spent 20 years in prison until Carola Vinuesa uncovered the truth in a drop of blood

This investigation is available as a 4-part podcast series, The Lab Detective, from Tortoise Investigates. Listen to the first episode here.

Kathleen Folbigg has suffered unimaginable tragedy in her life. Over the course of a decade she lost not just one, but four of her infant children. They all died, suddenly, in their sleep.

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