Revealed: Why Many doubted Joanne Lees
Sue Williams
Sydney Morning Herald
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Darwin (Australia):
Joanne Lees's cold and emotionless appearance after her boyfriend Peter Falconio had been slaughtered in a terrifying attack in the Australian outback was a result of being doped up with Valium.
While the world immediately became suspicious of her story because she didn't fit the image of a 
tearful, distraught heroine, it was because she'd been given drugs to numb the crushing grief.
It was the only way she'd been able to hold herself together to give the police descriptions of her terrible ordeal at the hands of brutal attacker Bradley Murdoch.The consequences, however, proved to be devastating.
It meant she was to be forever compared with Lindy Chamberlain, and to be the similar victim of suspicion and innuendo over the truthfulness of her account of what happened.
Dec 18, 2005
Sue WilliamsSydney Morning Herald
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Darwin (Australia):
Joanne Lees's cold and emotionless appearance after her boyfriend Peter Falconio had been slaughtered in a terrifying attack in the Australian outback was a result of being doped up with Valium.
While the world immediately became suspicious of her story because she didn't fit the image of a
tearful, distraught heroine, it was because she'd been given drugs to numb the crushing grief.It was the only way she'd been able to hold herself together to give the police descriptions of her terrible ordeal at the hands of brutal attacker Bradley Murdoch.The consequences, however, proved to be devastating.
It meant she was to be forever compared with Lindy Chamberlain, and to be the similar victim of suspicion and innuendo over the truthfulness of her account of what happened.
Dec 18, 2005
