Lauren Cassimatis

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471 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 28 Jun

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Australian True Crime · The Only Australian Woman Sentenced to Life Without Parole · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

And I can't even imagine like the smell and everything about it.

And I'm an animal lover.

But it often starts off that way.

I'm not obviously a psychologist, but I've worked closely with many throughout my career.

And what you'll see is that especially children that experience violence, they'll start off with small acts of harm against animals.

And I won't go into it, but it starts off with a small animal, a small act, and then it turns into something far more violent to the point of even causing death.

And then they then inflict it on humans.

So I'm not surprised she ends up in an avatar because it's probably a way to release sort of that pain within her in a way.

She was subjected to her mother's partners inflicting harm on her.

And then she had a series of relationships where she says that men were violent towards her and her own children actually gave evidence that that was the case.

The courts questioned that, I think, at some stage.

And I think she was trying to say that that was a repercussion of her being the victim to begin with.

And I think her children backed that.

But there was some doubt around the veracity or authenticity of those claims.

But it often does happen.

Talk to us about that, the victim-offender overlap.

Especially with women, it's very common.

So what we see is, and I always say there's no such thing as an evil person.

People commit crimes because of something that's happened in their lifetime.

And often what you see with women is that they are a victim of domestic violence to begin with, and it turns into crime because either they've learnt maladaptive behaviours, they've sort of inherited these actions and they go on to do it themselves, or

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