Leanne Holland - Part 2 of 2 - Not a Scintilla - Unsolved True Crime

On Christmas Eve 2009, Graham Stafford's conviction for the murder of Leanne Holland was quashed. A Court of Appeal found his trial had been fundamentally unfair. One of its judges would have acquitted him outright.

The murder of Leanne Holland was officially unsolved.

Then Queensland Police conducted a two-year review, declared there was not a scintilla of evidence against anyone other than Stafford, and locked the report away for a decade.

In Part 2, we ask the question nobody in authority has seriously tried to answer: if not Graham Stafford, then who?

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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