Documentary (2016) – ABC1
dir. Terry Carlyon | prod. Terry Carlyon & Robin Miller | edit. Terry Carlyon
DD&B Productions

This is a truly riveting documentary. Very powerful and I’m proud to have been a part of it. I hope you manage to catch it.

• Logie Award Winner – Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program (2017)
• Finalist, 2016 Quill Awards, TV / Video Feature Long Form
• AACTA Award Winner – Best Editing in a Documentary (2017)
• AACTA Award Nominee – Best Sound in a Documentary (2017)

From the ABC press release:

The one off documentary special Conviction, is an intense and riveting study of what it takes to solve a high-profile and emotionally charged murder, told through the eyes of the homicide detectives who brought Jill Meagher’s killer to justice. In a series of powerfully honest and engrossing interviews, Victorian detectives relive the hunt for the killer of the Melbourne ABC staffer, whose disappearance in September 2012 sparked a social media frenzy and galvanised a national outpouring of emotion.

Narrated by Walkley award-winning crime writer John Silvester, this is the story behind the headlines: the personal journeys that underpinned the search for Jill, the very public manhunt for her killer and the elaborate weaving of evidence that would finally trap him into confession after hours of police interrogation. The journey as the case unfolds piece-by-piece, is a remarkable account of the often painstaking and sometimes inspired steps that must be taken to find, catch and convict a killer. Conviction leads viewers through the complicated professional, personal and public stakes that intertwine around murder. It is a twisting of events that leaves very few untouched.