Wisdom and experience take journalist Liz Hayes to new investigative role | Have a Go News
Liz Hayes, stalwart of 60 Minutes, likes to stay open to new ideas and the proof is in the proverbial pudding.
The veteran journalist, turning 65, has helped conceive a serious new TV program, Under Investigation with Liz Hayes.
Welcomed with open arms by Channel 9 and to be launched after the Australian Tennis Open, the pilot series will spotlight crime and mystery.
The network said: “Experts will interact, pulling apart a mystery and revealing details only true experts can uncover.”
Upcoming subjects are how a forensic fire expert uncovers a murder in the remains of a bush campfire and how international scientists tracked Vladimir Putin’s chemical assassins. They will include Australia’s most intriguing recent mysteries and cases which have fascinated the nation in recent years.
Sitting around a ‘war table’, handmade from 100-year-old hangar beams, will be a panel of experts including ex-NSW homicide detective Gary Jubelin, re-examining the disappearance and murder of Janine Vaughan in Bathurst.
In another segment, the family of murdered Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley open-up to Liz and her team.
Liz and forensic specialists discover new clues in Victoria’s high country mystery, the disappearance of elderly lovers Russell Hill and Carol Clay from a remote alpine campsite.