Shortcut: A Sister's Plea for Justice in the Emma Pawelski Case
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.
Hannah was just 15 years old when her big sister, Emma Pawelski was murdered in 2005.
The crime remains unsolved, despite the fact that police have always had one main suspect.
We spoke to Hannah and Emma's mother, Sharon, in 2020. We've reissued that episode, in case you'd like to listen back to it after this one.
Hannah McKell joins us today on Australian True Crime to talk about living with her sister's homicide and to appeal again for anyone with information about her sister's death to please contact police.
There is a $200,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in this case. If you have any information, please contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Guest: Hannah McKell
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| 0:00.0 | Can We Be Real? |
| 0:01.5 | The first live show is coming up this November, |
| 0:04.1 | and we would love to see you all to wrap up the year. |
| 0:07.1 | Let's call it a Christmas party. |
| 0:08.4 | Bring your friends, co-workers, whoever you want, for a fun night out, |
| 0:11.9 | and possibly to have a few wines afterwards. |
| 0:15.2 | Brisbane and Melbourne are selling out very quickly, |
| 0:17.1 | so you really have to get on to that. |
| 0:18.6 | And you can secure your tickets by going to can we be real.com. |
| 0:25.1 | So I've come to the forest today. |
| 0:28.2 | Just part of like my own healing and I never thought I'd be able to come here. |
| 0:35.0 | It's been haunting me for years, you know. |
| 0:40.5 | So I came to face it. I'm currently sitting where Emma was left. We don't have a grave for her because she was burnt here. Someone |
| 0:49.4 | drove her here, dumped her, burnt her, like it's just horrible. |
| 0:55.0 | I feel so brave right now. |
| 0:58.0 | Today I just felt like I just had to come here, I just had to come here. |
| 1:02.0 | I feel like she'd be really proud of this. |
| 1:06.0 | I've just faced one of the biggest fears of my life. |
| 1:10.0 | Um, but her spirit is here, like her spirit is here. |
| 1:14.6 | And it's a part of my healing. |
| 1:17.6 | That's a social media post recently uploaded by Adelaide woman Hannah McKell. |
| 1:31.1 | It's a video of her first visit to a location in Mount Crawford Forest, about an hour |
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