How the murder of a young woman uncovered a ‘forensic train wreck’ — and led to a reckoning years in the making

Just after midnight on February 9, 2013, 23-year-old Shandee Blackburn was stabbed to death while walking home from work at the Harrup Park Country Club in Mackay.

The police investigation led to charges and a subsequent trial in 2017, but the accused was acquitted by a jury.

In 2020, a coronial…