MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Phoebe Handsjuk
When a young woman falls 12 floors down a garbage shoot to her death only questions remain. Was it suicide? Was it an accident? Or could something more sinister have happened to Phoebe Handsjuk?
Phoebe Handsjuk died in the most brutal and baffling way.
The coroner ruled Phoebe’s death was an accident and that no one else was involved. But that finding has been questioned by the Handsjuk family who believe there’s another, more sinister explanation
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Episode Source Material
- Phoebe’s Fall by The Age (2016)
- What Happened to Phoebe?
- Phoebe Handsjuk’s waste chute death unlike anything else
- 60 Minutes Australia
- What happened to Bailee Schneider?
- An Australian Death and a suspicious ruling of suicide
- Homicide squad will investigate mysterious death of young model
- Coroner’s findings
- Submission of Counsel Assisting
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