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Shortcut: The Untold Stories Of Missing Australians

Season 1, Ep. 527

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.


Nicole Morris joins us again on Australian True Crime to talk about her latest book devoted to missing persons.


The book is simply called Missing, but there's nothing simple or easy about the stories she tells inside.


Nicole is the director and founder of the Australian Missing Persons Register, which she created in 2005. Prior to that, there was no national database of missing people and no hub for families who are missing someone to share information, resources and support for each other.


Missing, and Nicole's previous book, Vanished, have both been written in close collaboration with these families. The portraits she paints of the disappeared are intimate, in depth and relatable.


Click here to view and purchase Nicole's books.


Click here to visit the Australian Missing Persons Register Facebook page.


Send us a question by recording a voice message here and it may be answered on next week's episode.


Click here to subscribe to ATC Plus on Apple Podcasts and access all ATC episodes early and ad-free, as well as exclusive bonus episodes.


CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram 

Guest: Nicole Morris

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

This episode contains extra content from Seven West Media and The ABC.


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