Ashlea Hansen

Last year, I was talking to families of cold cases about rewards.

So rewards for information and digging into who's

what's the system behind this?

And a lot of families believe that it's an unfair system, but it's a complex system about why some cases attract a million dollar reward and why other cases only attract no reward or $100,000.

So families sit back and think, is that a reflection of their value?

And it's absolutely not.

But there are fair questions that these families are asking as to why is my loved one's case not worth

a million dollars, which is the limit in New South Wales for a reward case.

And I began talking to Tracey's sister, Sharon Robards, and I just couldn't switch off this case because the more she was talking to me about this case, and I was deep in another case, and I just said to her, just slow down, just slow down, keep up.

You know, my head was spinning.

I'm going, what do you mean that this happened and this happened and no one's ever been charged?

And

She just kept, you know, telling me all this information and I kept thinking about it.

And I said to her, look, I'm happy to when I've got some capacity to have a look at her case because the focus of that particular story on the rewards wasn't a deep dive on any particular case.

It was talking about rewards.

And I said, look,

you know, I can maybe when I have some capacity have a look at her case.

And she said, yeah, I'd love you to.

And so we got talking and it was pretty soon after that I said, okay, let's do it.

What have you got in terms of materials and are you willing to be interviewed and whatnot?