ABC Unravel Season 5 | Juanita

Unravel: Juanita tackles one of Australia’s iconic true crime stories. This seven-episode podcast series follows an investigation by family members of the journalist and activist Juanita Nielsen 46 years after her sudden disappearance.

In the early ’70s, Sydney’s Kings Cross was a hotbed of controversy around corruption and high-rise development, and the heart of Australia’s criminal underground. With her distinctive beehive hairdo, Juanita was a well-known member of the well-to-do Foy family, who owned an iconic city department store.

She moved to Kings Cross where she published a local newspaper and became a vocal opponent in the fight to preserve heritage terraces and affordable housing in the area she loved. Did her activism cost her her life?

Did she know too much? Who might have wanted her out of the way? And why, after nearly five decades, does her family still have no answers?

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