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60 Minutes: July 20

60 Minutes has announced a "major event" story on Gerard Baden-Clay following his conviction today.

ta-brown60 Minutes has announced a “major event” story on Gerard Baden-Clay following his conviction for the murder of his wife Allison today.

Clearly this one has been waiting in the wings. Could a telemovie be next?

“The Wife Killer”
Gerard Baden-Clay tried to portray himself as ‘Mr Middle Class’ – a successful small-businessman, proud father and loving and devoted husband. But the real Gerard was the complete opposite. He was an incompetent real estate agent whose business was hemorrhaging money; he was intolerant with his three young daughters and he was a womaniser who wasn’t even faithful to his long-term mistress. But why Gerard Baden-Clay thought all his problems could be fixed by killing his beautiful wife Allison, only he knows. So far he’s not saying, but after being convicted of murder, he now has a lifetime in prison to think about it. This Sunday 60 Minutes takes you inside the extensive police investigation which led to Baden-Clay’s prosecution.

· Tara Brown meets the forensic and detective team who painstakingly put together a circumstantial case so strong, the jury had to convict.

· 60 Minutes also talks to a witness the jury never heard from, a woman who was asked by Gerard to kill his wife.

· The other woman in all of this, Gerard’s mistress of 4 years Toni McHugh, reveals a darker side to Gerard not seen before, of a man so busily trying to spin his way through personal and professional turmoil, that he lost all concept of right and wrong.

· And Allison’s best friends pay tribute to the woman they say was a loyal wife, loving mother, beautiful daughter and caring friend.

Sunday, July 20, 2014 at 8pm on Nine.

7 Responses

  1. More endless bilge about this case? Give it a rest! The whole of A Current Affair, most of Today, now all of Sixty Minutes. I record Sunrise, Today, ACA and the news programs and I fast forwarded thru them in record time, there was nothing to watch. I refuse to believe the public are as obsessed with this case as the TV news bosses.

  2. Did I hear Nine promoting some “news special” on this matter for either last night or tonight? Didn’t pay attention as wasn’t interested. Considering he’s yet to appeal/not appeal it all seems very disturbing, and tacky.

  3. They ran snippets last night on a rushed to air episode of Inside Story with ridiculous exclusive watermarks running across the screen.

  4. A bit disrespectful and tacky to show this so soon after the verdict. Wonder if she got paid.

  5. Everyone will jump on the band wagon now, and claim an exclusive, claiming they are the first yet they will all have the same old story, nothing new, we have seen everything so far that is available including interviews. Really pathetic.

  6. That’s just what we need right now – more insensitive re-enactments of the final hours of murder victims and more speculation and hearsay presented as fact.

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