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canetoad

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Sat Apr 18, 2026, 07:39 PM 10 hrs ago

'Cases that stay with you forever': They see women killed by violence, and this is what they want you to know

Joanna Glengarry has performed 5000 autopsies on people who died in hundreds of ways. She describes forensic pathologists as a robust bunch, yet some of these deaths stay with her.

They are the cases in which no amount of science can explain the horrendous violence inflicted on women with everything to live for.

Many of these killings made national and international headlines, but the New Zealander who now heads up forensic pathology at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine has seen the carnage up close.

Some hit home because she and the victim of a crime that outraged a community had so much in common – as was the case with Auckland accountant Jo Pert, 41. Glengarry did her autopsy after Pert’s daylight killing during her regular jog.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/cases-that-stay-with-you-forever-they-see-women-killed-by-violence-and-this-is-what-they-want-you-to-know-20260414-p5znu2.html

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