A relative of the convicted killer Morris Ansell describes the man he knew as a gentle uncle, long after Ansell served his prison sentence and began his life again in New Zealand.

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Chapter 4: Skeletons in the closet

Joan stumbles on a description of the killer, Morris Ansell, which challenges her long-held suspicions about the murder. She also reveals how she eventually did track down her mother, and what happened when they met as adults.

Chapter 3: Someone to blame

Alfred Atherton's murder case has been kept closed for 75 years, but in January 2016, the Public Records Office of Victoria opened it to its public collection. Joan is able to read the file for the first time, finding it stirs memories of the legacy her mother left her as a child.

Chapter 2: Searching for answers

In the third season of Invisible History, we follow one woman's journey to make sense of her father's murder in 1939, with the central question being what role her mother may have played.

Making Sense of a Murder, Chapter 1: What Joan knows so far

Despite its challenges, Maxine says there is something keeping her living in the village, and she will never leave.

Chapter 5: Keeping the Olympic spirit alive

Maxine's living situation became so traumatic at one point, she went into a deep depression.

Chapter 4: Hard times at home

Once a week, locals gather to share lunch in the backyard of a Marist Brother's house in the village. They say they may not have much money, but they have each other.

Chapter 3: Sticking together

In the 1970s, generational disadvantage amongst the community was compounded by the ageing housing stock.

Chapter 2: 'The Bronx' of Melbourne

Nearly 60 years after Melbourne hosted the Olympic Games, those living in the old athletes' village still suffer the effects of a rushed development and public housing policies of the time.

Our Olympic Village, Chapter 1: an unlikely past

Robert Young begins to retrace the lives of two daring young Indigenous men. Starting at the corner of Franklin and Bowen Streets in Melbourne's CBD, then going back to the early 1800s in Tasmania, Robert discovers the men are closely connected to one of his own ancestors.

Chapter 1: The promise of a future

Something tipped Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener over the edge when they were in Victoria with George Augustus Robinson, but no one knows for sure what it was.

Chapter 2: The breaking point

A daring departure soon leads to an inevitable confrontation between Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener's group and the colonists.

Chapter 3: The confrontation on the coast

The first formal executions in Victoria raise questions regarding how to define a murderer in the midst of colonial conflict.

Chapter 4: The example of death

Memorials everywhere, but what do they tell us? A controversial push for frontier conflict to be recognised is close to becoming a reality in Melbourne.

Chapter 5: The way we remember

Invisible History unearths the hidden, forgotten and uncelebrated stories in Melbourne's past, and explores how they have shaped people's lives in Melbourne today. Produced by Clare Rawlinson, with additional audio production by Dave Williams.

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