KATHLEEN FOLBIGG IS SHE INNOCENT?

Whenever criminologist and forensic anthropologist Dr Xanthé Mallett visits Kathleen Folbigg in prison, she walks away with a new-found respect for the convicted killer. Dr Mallett is not an advocate for Folbigg, who in 2003 was found guilty of the suffocation murders of three of her children and the manslaughter of her first-born baby, but she does find “serious problems” with her case.

“I respect her strength to keep fighting,” says Dr Mallett, an associate professor at the University of Newcastle who studied. “I visit her as an objective observer, and I’ve always found myself questioning the reliability of the evidence against her.”