By Karen Kissane
Julie and Jamie Ramage have been the suitable middle-class Australian couple with every little thing: little ones at inner most faculties, he an organization director and she or he a monetary controller for a manner house.
But Julie walked out in their probably ideal marriage. after which, at some point, he killed her.
Beneath the veneer of perfection there had lain a courting marred through affairs, obsession and a background of violence. Jamie confessed to the killing - yet declared that he have been provoked and as a result no longer accountable of homicide as his spouse had pushed him over the edge.
Jamie's defence of provocation used to be profitable and he's now serving a jail sentence for the lesser crime of manslaughter. the lady he strangled the existence from and buried in a shallow grave had no voice in court docket and no approach of telling her story.
Silent Death tells Julie's tale - but additionally takes us into the demanding wider state of affairs - how a killing happened within the convenience and defense of a moneyed lifestyles; how family and friends both did not see or imagine they need to be concerned. And it's the tale of ways a court docket case is set strategies and approach first - and justice second.
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