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01 Sharon’s Disappearance | No body, no weapon, no crime?

6/8/202622 min

Sharon Fulton dropped her three-year-old son at daycare in Perth's north and never returned to pick him up. Forty years later, her husband Robert Fulton is charged with murder.

In this series, Perth court reporter, David Weber, retells the trial of Raymond Reddington — formerly Robert Fulton.

If you have any questions you'd like David and Stocky to answer in future episodes, please email thecaseof@abc.net.au.

The Case Of is the follow-up to the hit podcast Mushroom Case Daily, and all episodes of that show will remain available in the back catalogue of The Case Of.

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Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 10:00

    Tammy Shipley believed someone was out to hurt her I thought someone was after me, and I wanted to just be safe. She's put under 24-hour surveillance I tried to get in contact multiple times I just need to make a phone call.

  2. David Weber· Guest0:11

    Nobody knows where I am.

  3. Speaker 10:12

    And then something strange happens She just drank and drank and had something like 20 liters of pure water Ambulance emergency.

  4. David Weber· Guest0:20

    I've got a woman unconscious.

  5. Speaker 10:21

    Tammy's story. Search Background Briefing on ABC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. ABC Listen. Podcasts, radio, news, music, and more.

  6. Stephen Stockwell· Host0:35

    [gentle music] In 1986, Sharon Fulton disappeared in Perth. She dropped her children at school in the morning but wasn't there in the afternoon. For decades nothing happened until suddenly her husband was charged and put on trial for her murder. I'm Stephen Stockwell. This is episode one of the case of Sharon's disappearance Special Crime Squad detectives extradited Reddington back to Perth They were experiencing marriage difficulties, and Reddington thought he would suffer financially if she left him I'm instructed to assert that he protests his innocence Today is about my mother, Sharon, a dedicated, loving mother.

  7. Heath Fulton· Soundbite1:23

    Mom, you are not forgotten. You are not erased. You are not just a

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