The Truth About Amy
April 27, 2025
The new WA Police investigation, triggered by Season 1 of this podcast, is drawing to a close. However, despite proof Amy couldn’t kill herself, there’s fresh claims Amy’s case has become too political for those involved to hold anyone to account. The team reveals what’s going on behind the scenes.
May 4, 2025
How the finding by the detective assigned to head the Coronial Review “killed” her career in WA Police. Detective Senior Constable Ann Lehane was told to treat Amy Wensley’s death as ‘non-suspicious’. And when she didn’t, she was verbally berated in front of fellow officers. Why did WA Police persist with the suicide theory in Amy’s case?
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May 11, 2025
Dr Timothy Ackland was surprised when the Coroner delivered an open finding at the inquest. In this episode he explains why his evidence should be weighted higher than it seems to have been so far. One not to miss.
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May 18, 2025
The full, uncut interview with the first coroner who presided over Amy's case. Evelyn Vicker says she always knew Amy didn't kill herself and talks candidly about the politics involved in being a Coroner in WA. The podcast team also catches up with Amy's mum Nancy and best friend Erin who discuss how the latest revelations about police's handling of the case have impacted them and their faith in there being any justice for Amy.
May 25, 2025
We hear again from Joshua Bryden – a key witness who was at the property the day Amy died. Another family speaks out as they fight for an inquest for their daughter whose death was ruled a suicide after she allegedly ‘jumped’ from a speeding car while fighting with her partner. And why Australia’s femicide rate keeps climbing. For more details, please visit www.australianfemicidewatch.org
June 2, 2025
Pressure is mounting on top cop Col Blanch to fix WAPOL’s reputation over the handling of the case of Amy Wensley. In this episode, former police officer and true crime author Duncan McNab calls on the Police Commissioner to “lead”. Also we do get onto one of the key witnesses who was there when Amy was shot who has trouble answering some tricky questions which he’d previously never been asked.
The Truth About Amy
June 23, 2024
Amy Wensley is preparing to flee an abusive relationship when she is found dead with a gunshot wound to the head.
July 1, 2024
Former Constable Larry Blandford will never forget the night Amy died, saying he never believed she killed herself. Now retired, he reveals what really happened and how the mishandling of her death continues to haunt those involved.
July 8, 2024
Amy’s family comes together for the first time since the inquest into her death. Her daughters, who were almost 4 and 6 when their mum, died pay tribute to their mum and discuss what they want to happen now.
July 15, 2024
We uncover a vital clue which will prove critical for ongoing inquiries. Amy’s best friends spill the tea, revealing why she was so excited in the lead-up to her unexpected death.
July 22, 2024
The troubled life of Gareth Edward Toll Price and why he’s convinced his best mate David didn’t have anything to do with Amy’s death. Price is the same age Amy would have been had she lived but in a startling interview with Liam Bartlett, he reveals some holes in the theory Amy’s gunshot was self-inflicted.
July 29, 3024
A deep dive on Joshua Bryden who says he left just before Amy died and returned just after. We reveal secret messages he shared with Amy and catch up with him at his home.
August 5, 2024
Why did David Simmons' father Robert think his son killed Amy? And why did Gareth Price’s ex-wife pull out from testifying at the inquest at the last minute? Details of an horrific threat on social media which, until now, has impeded The Truth About Amy from being revealed.
August 12, 2024
A deep dive on Amy Wensley’s violent partner, David Simmons. He says he was outside the house when he and his best mate Gareth heard a ‘thud’, thought to be the sound of a bullet being fired which ended Amy’s life. However, the evidence doesn’t stack up and there’s contradicting testimonies from everyone who was there the afternoon Amy was shot.
August 19, 2024
Although limited because of detectives being in a hurry to rule Amy’s death suicide, the forensic evidence is overwhelmingly consistent with Amy having been shot, and not at all consistent with her taking her life. So why were WA Police and the Coroner so reluctant to treat this case as anything more than a suicide? Is saving face more important than ensuring justice?
August 26, 2024
A world-renowned crime scene reconstruction expert does his own analysis as to whether it’s possible Amy could have taken her own life. And we reveal what happened to the detectives who botched the handling of Amy’s case from the start.
September 2, 2024
In this episode, the people you haven’t heard from yet make an appearance and provide critical clues, which makes The Truth About Amy much clearer. Also, a distant relative of David Simmons comes forward with some startling details about some disturbing incidents she witnessed, in the months prior to Amy’s death.
September 9, 2024
New evidence comes to light which will force authorities to take another look. The team chases comment from the people who have the power to see if they’ll join the pursuit of Justice for Amy. And details on David Simmons upcoming court appearance and what you can expect to see happen before the year’s end.
November 24, 2024
Some of the nation’s best cold case analysts provide their expertise on Amy’s case and we delve deeper into some of the clues which are the key to finding out what really happened to Amy.
December 1, 2024
Internationally acclaimed criminal analyst Laura Richards provides insightful analysis regarding Amy’s case as WA Police acknowledges it will be seeking external expert analysis moving forward.
We also home in on one of the key pieces of evidence, which based on various witness accounts, will play an integral part in any future decision-making.
September 16, 2024
After 12 episodes, there’s so much to digest in The Truth About Amy. Alison and Liam are joined by Chief Courts Reporter for The West Australian newspaper, Tim Clarke who lends his considerable expertise to the analysis of Amy’s case.
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September 23, 2024
Julie Speight is not only a national cycling champion but the podcast’s first super sleuth.
With Julie, the team interrogates the more confusing and bizarre details of the case and discuss the latest responses from those tasked to serve and protect the community.
September 30, 2024
The team is joined by radio legend and author Greg Cary who provides his unique take on Amy’s case and discusses how the power and impact of true crime podcasts could be better utilised by authorities.
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October 6, 2024
The team is joined by Australia’s finest detective Ron Iddles who offers his own unique insight on the handling of Amy’s case.
He discusses what actions police should be taking now, the difficulties associated with getting authorities to change their minds once they’re already fixed on a position, and his own battles with the ‘brotherhood’.
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October 12, 2024
The team speaks to a very special guest about what’s currently going on behind the scenes. The DPP responds to recent calls for assistance by the family and a passionate plea to a significant witness who could hold the key to this entire case.
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October 19, 2024
Why aren’t decisions by the Director of Public Prosecutions reviewable? The teams speaks to NSW Crime Commissioner and former QLD State Coroner Michael Barnes who helps to dissect Amy’s case and provides insight into how he would have handled it if he had been Coroner at her inquest.
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October 28, 2024
A cold case investigator has volunteered their expertise to help solve the case of Amy Wensley! Alison and Liam are joined by Dr Xanthe Mallett to discuss what is required to ensure Justice for Amy.
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November 4, 2024
After escaping from a domestic violence situation, Elise Phillips has dedicated her life to helping others facing similar challenges. Her strength and understanding of what’s involved provides invaluable insight into the situation Amy was facing just before she died and what’s required to overcome the biggest issue currently facing the nation.
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November 11, 2024
With a legal career spanning more than four decades, Tom Percy gives his unvarnished opinion of life on the coal face. He bluntly discusses the very realistic hurdles which remain for Amy’s family wanting the truth of her death to come out and what he considers the primary contributor to increasing violence affecting every part of our society.
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November 18, 2024
The team discusses recent events bringing us closer to The Truth About Amy being realised. There’s lots more to come, so check out our website for the latest news and online packages The Truth About Amy podcast | 7NEWS
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Amy Wensley was a young mum with hope in her heart and two young children who adored her. She had nothing and yet she had everything. She most certainly had everything to live for and any suggestion to the contrary is both ill-informed and nonsensical. Every shred of physical and emotional evidence left behind points to her plans for a future. From the passport placement at the top of her purse to the presents packed in the car for one of her girl’s birthday two days later, Amy was preparing a new start. But that fresh beginning came to an abrupt end in a small bedroom when a shotgun went off in circumstances that can only be described as highly suspicious.
What
followed was a series of blunders, incompetence and blind prejudice by WA
detectives that allowed a killer to escape justice and left Amy’s daughters and
her extended family with a legacy that nobody should wish on their worst enemy.
Seven years later, the Coroner decided those police actions were ‘negligent’
but that overly kind description does nothing to adequately cover the impact or
the aftermath. There is zero accountability, no apology and worse, a decided
lack of meaningful action and commitment by police to put their shoulders to
the wheel and solve this case.
There
are at least three, possibly four men, who know the truth and for a range of
reasons, have chosen to fashion it in a way that suits nobody but
themselves. But truth is not
transactional and one day soon, these men will be shown to be the cowards they
really are. I wonder what their mothers’
think of them. Their sisters, their
aunties, the women who could best imagine what it would feel like to live a
life subjugated and demeaned, at the hands of someone bigger, meaner, more
vicious and more threatening in a way that is aimed at making someone
physically and mentally smaller. I
imagine it’s the way Amy felt in those final weeks and months. It’s the worst sort of aggression. Acts of
violent intent and menace which are specifically aimed at boosting the ego of
the aggressor. It takes a special sort
of twisted mental state to produce that type of person but Amy knew one, and sadly,
thousands of other women know another.
The statistics and the volunteers at refuges don’t lie.
Amy’s
home state is divided into a total of 17 family protection units and we know,
from leaked internal figures that just one of those receives a staggering 100
domestic referrals each and every week.
When you extrapolate that out to a national reach, you start to get a
frightening idea of the real scale of the problem. It’s little wonder then that Australian Femicide
Watch reports one woman being killed every four days in 2024 and an analysis of
homicide figures shows that across the country the number of women murdered by
their partner has increased in the past 12 months by 28%.
Nobody
is suggesting it’s easy to be a police officer.
The statistics also tell us that responding to domestic incidents can be
one of the most dangerous duties police are asked to do. But that’s precisely why they need to do it
right the first time. Amy’s story is a
microcosm of what is happening behind closed doors to thousands of women today
who need support and help and who are often not in a position to do something
about it until it’s too late.
Ultimately, through no fault of her own, Amy was not able to escape the
travails of what she knew were bad choices that had led her into a violent
relationship. But when she tried, the
justice system catastrophically failed her and her family and by default,
supported the perpetrator instead and that, in itself is criminal.
It
cannot be that police attend a scene where a mother has been shot dead, only
metres away from her children and they can’t be bothered to even conduct formal
interviews with the only two adult males present. One of the detectives later put that glaring inaction
down to ‘arrogance’ and ‘over confidence’ but even that admission is hopelessly
pathetic. What he failed to mention was
there is a lot less paperwork involved in suicide than there is in murder and
if the senior police officers who went to Amy’s home that night really wanted
to be honest, they would admit that it was sheer laziness that triumphed over
any notion of public safety.
It’s
for that reason alone that we are now appealing for help, through a new podcast
(The Truth About Amy) to enlist the
power of amateur sleuths and those who care about how we deal with domestic
violence and its shocking fallout. The
case of Amy Wensley speaks to how everyone we love should be respected and
treated.
The
sheer act of searching for the truth about what happened to Amy will help all
of us to contribute to real change. Because if we find it and we act on it, we
can honestly say we’ve taken a positive step toward shouting down behaviour
that none of us should tolerate or overlook, even in its most benign form.
You can also reach out to us and comment on Facebook.
The Truth About Amy
June 2, 2025
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
An ex-cop has accused WA Police of “confirmation bias” in the suspected murder of Amy Wensley more than a decade ago.
May 19, 2025
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
Police Minister Rhys Whitby has refused to be drawn on whether he thought the Corruption and Crime Commission should launch its own an investigation into the death of Amy Wensley after her family called for a fresh probe in a letter accusing WA Police of “attempting to cover up mismanagement” of the case.
May 12, 2025
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
A biomechanics expert says he wants a criminal trial where witnesses can be cross-examined about Amy Wensley’s death because he is “95 per cent” certain she did not take her own life.
May 4, 2025
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
A former detective says she was severely reprimanded for refusing to treat Amy Wensley’s death as a suicide — a move she claims “killed her career” with WA Police.
April 27, 2025
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
A retired senior coroner believes Amy Wensley was the victim of an unlawful killing and says there is evidence which shows she did not pull the trigger despite police initially finding she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Nov 11, 2024
7NEWS
Amy Wensley’s death is now being treated as a homicide thanks to new evidence uncovered by 7NEWS Spotlight and the groundbreaking 7NEWS podcast The Truth About Amy.
Sep 9, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
Attorney General John Quigley should send the case of Amy Wensley back to WA’s Director of Public Prosecutions, according to shadow Police Minister Peter Collier — who says it is “incomprehensible” that he hasn’t done so already.
Sept 4, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
The family of Amy Wensley have launched a petition calling for her case to be referred to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Sep 4, 2024
7NEWS
The family of Amy Wensley has launched a petition calling for her case to be referred to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Sep 2, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
A new witness has described how David Simmons — the partner of the young West Australian mother who died from a gunshot wound to the head ten years ago — shot a pet dog in the head just months before his partner’s suspicious death.
Aug 26, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
WA Police have set up a fresh team to investigate new information emerging in the troubling case of Amy Wensley — the doting mother shot dead in her own home more than a decade ago.
Aug 19, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
For decades, Tim and Tom studied the same thing — how the body moves. And where a body should move to.
Aug 12, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
The partner of Amy Wensley is facing serious criminal charges and has reacted furiously to being asked to tell the truth about what happened in their bedroom before the mum-of-two’s violent death.
Aug 5, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
The young woman who was one of the last to see Amy Wensley alive — in the hours before the mother-of-two died from a shotgun blast to the head — was threatened and abused as a “snitch” by her own sister on the fourth anniversary of her shocking death.
July 29, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
Joshua Bryden was there on the day Amy Wensley died. And then he wasn’t. And then he was.
July 22, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
As he says many times, he was there that night — the night Amy Wensley died from a shotgun blast to the head.
July 15, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
Two days before Amy Wensley was found dead from a gunshot wound her friends and family believe was not self-inflicted, the mum-of-two found a path to freedom.
July 8, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
They were young girls then. They are young women now.
The two girls who were the centre of Amy Wensley’s world. The young women who would have made their mother so proud — if their mother was still alive to see them grow.
June 23, 2024
THE MORNING SHOW
10 years ago, young mum, Amy Wensley was mysteriously shot and killed inside her own home by a single gunshot. Now, with a one-million dollar reward in place, investigators have re-opened the case hoping to piece together what really happened. Investigative journalist, Alison Sandy and Amy's aunt, Anna Davey join us this morning
June 22, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
A world-renowned crime scene reconstruction expert has sensationally concluded there is no way young mum Amy Wensley could have killed herself — 10 years after WA Police detectives took minutes to conclude she had.
July 1, 2024
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
As he stood and looked at the ghastly scene in front him, Larry Blandford made a promise — to himself, and to the young woman who lay dead on the floor at his feet.
Liam Bartlett is the co-host of The Truth About Amy.
Liam is one of Australia’s best-known and most trusted investigative journalists.
He has covered major stories around the world for more than three decades as a correspondent for ABC news, 60 Minutes and the Seven Network’s flagship current affairs show, Spotlight.
Liam lives in Perth with his wife and three children.
Alison Sandy is the Executive Producer and Co-host of The Truth About Amy.
She previously co-created and presented the global hit podcast The Lady Vanishes and produced and presented Shot in the Dark.
Alison is the Investigations Editor for the Seven Network (Australia).
She lives in Brisbane with her husband and three children.
Marc Wright is the Sound Designer and Engineer for The Truth About Amy.
Marc has designed the audio for numerous podcasts, including The Lady Vanishes, Pendulum, Little Girl Lost: The Unsolved Murder of Leanne Holland and Shot in the Dark.
He lives and works in Brisbane.
Cassie is an assistant producer of The Truth About Amy. She is based in Brisbane.
Jason is a Graphic Designer and Musician based in Brisbane.