Look What You Made Me Do: Fathers Who Kill

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One Australian woman is hospitalised every three hours and two more lose their lives each week as a result of family violence. But for some women, there is a punishment far more enduring than injury or their own death.

Look What You Made Me Do, is a timely exploration of the evil inflicted by vengeful fathers who have killed their own flesh and blood simply to punish partners for ending unrewarding - often abusive - relationships. Focussing on nine different, but equally harrowing cases of spousal revenge spanning more than two decades, award winning author Megan Norris, draws upon her own experience as a former court and crime reporter, to examine the cold-blooded murders of eighteen innocent children who became collateral damage in callous crimes committed by angry dads whose real targets were the childrens mothers.

From the 1993 kidnap and murder of three-year-old Kelly East in WA, to the shocking death of little Darcey Freeman whose dad hurled her over Melbournes West Gate Bridge in 2009, each story highlights the chilling connection between intimate partner abuse and retaliatory homicide.

Now widely recognised as the ultimate act of domestic violence a man can inflict upon his partner, these disturbing cases illustrate that its not only mothers who are in danger when domestic violence turns deadly.

Author Bio

Megan Norris is a UK-trained journalist and award-winning author whose portfolio includes covering some of Australias most infamous crimes. Her first book, Perfect Victim, co-authored with author, Elizabeth Southall, is now a movie starring Sam Neill, Miranda Otto, and Guy Pearce. Her exploration of revenge killings during marital breakdown, Look What You Made Me Do, won the 2017 Davitt Award from Australian Sisters in Crime Davitt for best non-fiction. Megan is a regular contributor to Australian Womens Weekly and has appeared on Foxtels Crimes That Shook Australia, Channel Sevens Sunday Night and Today Tonight as well as Tens, The Project. She is a regular guest on Mishel Laurie and Emily Webbs acclaimed podcast, True Crime Australia, and has been featured on The Stalking Podcast and the ABCs Nightlife show. Her true crime stories have been syndicated world-wide. Megan lives on the Gold Coast with her husband, Steve, their grandson, Nathan, and his dog, Larry.