Please note: this podcast includes discussion of mature themes including suicide and murder. Listener discretion is advised.

First Australians should also know that this podcast includes the names and stories of people who have died.

Days after Richard Dorrough violently takes his own life at a public gun range in Perth, Western Australia, his fiancée receives a parcel from him in the post - a book filled with the former sailor’s handwriting. She starts to read and, horrified by the chilling confession inside it, quickly hands the book to police....

Suicides rarely get reported. But reporters Dan Box and Kate Wild believe this unnerving public death is worthy of further explanation. Exploring what made Dorrough take his life leads the pair to the country’s far corners, to uneasy truths about race and prejudice in the criminal justice system and to questions about how we tell true crime stories.

In the process they start to understand that Dorrough took much more than just his own life.

Dan Box

Dan Box is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author. He has previously worked for The Australian, the BBC and London’s The Sunday Times. He has won awards in both the UK and Australia, including for investigative reporting, feature writing and true crime writing. He is the writer and presenter of the Bowraville podcast series and The Queen & Zak Grieve documentary series, both of which have also won major awards.

Kate Wild

Kate has spent most of her working life as a researcher and producer in television, almost always for the ABC and SBS in documentaries, comedy and current affairs. The biggest stories she has worked on are Who Killed Mr Ward and Code of Silence, for Four Corners, both of which won Walkleys, a Logie and NSW and Victorian Premier's Awards for journalism.

Written by: Dan Box

Presented by Dan Box and Kate Wild

Audio Producer: Selena Shannon

Producer: Ivan O'Mahoney

Produced by In Films in association with Audiocraft.

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