What the mother knew
Subtitle: the real story of the Jody Galante murder
By: Edmund Tadros
Contributors: Tadros, Edmund
Publisher: Fairfax Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781921486104
Subjects: Murder victims' families; Case studies; Murderers; Murder
Description: From the moment Julie-Anne Hand was told her pregnant daughter's body had been found in the Blue Mountains in January 2006, she was certain her son-in-law was guilty of the murder. A devastated Mrs Hand had to spend the next five weeks pretending Mark Galante was innocent - comforting him about losing a wife, publicly supporting him and even holding his hand at Jody's funeral - while police gathered evidence. What the Mother Knew is the real story of Jody's murder and subsequent trial, pieced together from police transcripts, interviews with the family and conversations with the killer.