Case 249: Lorraine Wilson & Wendy Evans

One of the most frustrating and depressing Casefiles ever.

Who ever wrote this one is a genius! I could actually envision the landscape, the wallaby, the fence, AMAZING!! I’ve heard a lot of this case but the number of people that could have changed the outcome if they did something, i can’t even imagine how that feels for the girls families.

I’m horrified that so many people could have intervened to help but didn’t. How do they live with the guilt?

Sylvia Likens, Janet Chandler, Leigh Leigh, and now Lorraine Wilson and Laura Evans...I'm starting to lose all faith there are good people in the world when so many people just did nothing to help them.

I consider myself pretty well versed in Australian cases (for an American) but I had never heard of either of these series of crimes. What a complete failing from so many people, it's infuriating.

To think that the absolute animals that killed Anita Cobby and Janine Balding are household names, and those cases are earmarked as triumphs of investigation and solid police work, contrasted against such incompetence is absolutely disgusting. I’d never even heard of this case. The people that drove by this, protected and ignored it deserve no sleep. A very sad and dark story. Thank you teams

I remember the frustration when it was in front of the coroner. Love the local cases, so thank you for this well researched case

This episode was a very difficult one to listen to. To hear about the blatant misogyny, lack of empathy and just general incompetence of the police, it made me so angry that I wanted to scream. And I when the husband said ‘It’s probably just a domestic’!? This episode made me thankful for having been born in the 80s, because at least now violence against women is not as acceptable as it was at the time. It made me thankful for how far we have come, even though one can always argue that we should be further along. But at least now we have terms like domestic violence, marital rape, incest, child abuse. And at least now the threshold for ‘acceptable’ violence towards other people is lower than it was then.

Oh my god this case. The number of people who witnessed and didn't help is absolutely horrific! The police negligence adds another level of outrage. It reminds me of the Leigh Leigh case.

The bystander effect is so so powerful and so sad….. Great episode as always!

Probably one of the saddest/angriest cases I’ve heard. To think that so many people saw/heard these young women and did little or mostly nothing is unconscionable. While I can understand why some folks wouldn’t be willing to physically intervene, especially if out numbered, but there would be no reason at all why they wouldn’t emphatically relay the incident to the police. Each and every time Lorraine and Wendy saw that people had seen or heard their pleas for help, they would have thought they’d be saved, but then to find out that help would never come would have been agonizing, I can’t imagine the horror they felt, an unbelievably sad crime.

Who on earth wrote this episode ??? Very very well done

This was such a heartbreaking one to listen to. Like a nightmare where no one can hear you scream. I grew up in toowoomba and know exactly all the places mentioned in this one. Extra chilling and just so sad.

Obviously idk what content warnings you plan to include on this one, but god I wish "will induce extreme outrage and frustration" or maybe even just "extreme police incompetence" were standard content warnings. This is one of the most outrageous and frustrating and heartbreaking cases I've heard about in a while. I had to stop mid-listen just to come vent. GOD. Those poor women, begging for help and meeting with nothing but cowardice and apathy and a lack of urgency from absolutely everyone.

I live in Queensland and enjoy hearing about local cases, thank you :)