Wrongful: Stories of Justice Denied, and Redeemed

Wrongful opens the casefile on five head-spinning stories of wrongful conviction, told from the inside, by the journalists who covered them, the lawyers who argued them, the police who investigated them — and from the falsely accused who lived through the nightmare.

Falling: The Andrew Mallard Story

In 1994 mother-of-two Pamela Lawrence was murdered in her upmarket jewellery shop. The police were under intense pressure to find her killer and they zeroed in on a daydreaming drifter with a history of mental illness, Andrew Mallard.

Andrew Mallard would make one of the most unorthodox "confessions" in the annals of criminal justice.

He would spend 12 years in prison until a palm print and a pig's head — and exhaustive efforts by family and supporters — would exonerate him.

Dead Unlucky: The John Button Story

When he was 18-years-old, John Button had everything a teenage boy in early 1960s Australia could want; a steady job, an enviable car and a devoted girlfriend. But on the night of his 19th birthday, that safe, predictable world would be shattered forever.

What really happened on that hot February night in 1963 in Perth?

It would take nearly half a century to find out, and for John Button, a wrongful conviction and five years in prison.

Lost for Words: The Gene Gibson Story

On a sweltering February night in 2010, the destinies of two 21-year-olds — one white, and one black — collided fatally on a deserted road outside of Broome.

One young man, Josh Warneke, lost his life that night. The other, Gene Gibson, a cognitively impaired Pintubi man, was caught in the failures of the justice system.

Any Stick To Beat a Dog: The Darryl Beamish Story

Darryl Beamish was a profoundly deaf teenager when he was charged with the 1959 axe murder of glamorous 22-year-old socialite Jillian Brewer. It took some doing to get a signed confession from a semi-literate "deaf-mute", but detective George Leitch — soon to be promoted to Western Australia's Police Commissioner — was true to his motto: "Any stick to beat a dog."

The Beamish case would not be finally resolved for almost half a century — and remains as a landmark in Australian legal history.