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S1 01 | Bookshop murder

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Maria James' phone remains off the hook. Her bedroom is in the background.(Supplied: Victorian Coroner's Court)

On a winter morning in June 1980, Maria James turned to her son Mark and looked him in the eyes. "If anything happens to me, look after your brother." Later that day she was found stabbed to death at the back of her suburban Melbourne bookshop.

ABC investigative reporter Rachael Brown heard through the grapevine that maybe something had been overlooked in the original investigation, and went looking for that seemingly insignificant detail, that piece of evidence, that trace of the killer.

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Trace is a podcast created and presented by ABC investigative reporter Rachael Brown

Investigation by Rachael Brown

Assistant production by Kerrie Ritchie, Rachel Carbonell, Andy Burns & Ryan Pemberton

Research and fact checking by Emma Lancaster

Legals provided by Grant McAvaney

Digital production lead by Jeremy Story Carter

Sound, original music and additional production by Martin Peralta

Additional original music by Josh Curtis

Script editing by Sophie Townsend

Executive Producer Tim Roxburgh

Executive Producer/Series Editor Jesse Cox

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