Leanne Holland | Part 1: A Walk to the Shops | Unsolved True Crime

On the first morning of the September school holidays in 1991, twelve-year-old Leanne Holland left her home in Goodna, Queensland, wearing a purple jumper and no shoes. She was going to the shops. She never came home.

Three days later, police found her body in bushland off Redbank Plains Road. Within a week, a man was arrested. Within months, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life.

He has always said he didn't do it.

This is Part 1 of a two-part investigation into one of Queensland's most contested criminal cases. Leanne Holland - A Walk to the Shops.

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Sources:


• R v Stafford [1992] QCA 269


• R v Stafford; ex parte A-G [1997] QCA 333


• R v Stafford [2009] QCA 407


• Stafford and Queensland Police Service [2021] QICmr 21


• ABC Australian Story, "Body of Evidence" Parts 1 & 2, aired 20 & 27 August 2007.


• Channel 9, Under Investigation with Liz Hayes, aired 14 February 2024.


• Graeme Crowley and Paul Wilson, Who Killed Leanne Holland? One Girl's Murder and One Man's Injustice, New Holland Publishers, 2010


• Graeme Crowley, Joe Crowley, Darrell Giles and Greg Cary, The Leanne Holland Murder, 2024


• Podcast - Who Killed Leanne Holland?, Six10 Media, hosted by Graeme Crowley and Jamie Pultz, 2020


• Thomas Chamberlin, "Leanne Holland murder case reopened by coroner after 35 years," The Courier Mail, 22 April 2026