Dingoes ate my boyfriend

These Australian Outback mysteries are so fascinating, I think.

The dingoes ate my baby woman was always under suspicion, wasn't she? And there was that Picnic at Hanging Rock thing, with the disappearing schoolgirls.

I'm no legal expert, but it always seems as if there's a shadow hanging over Joanne Lees. The pictures they show of her from the time of Peter Falconio's disappearance show a good-time girl with great bones; these days she looks like a nun out of her habit - or a lawyer. A deliberate image change, perhaps, meant to distance her from the party girl, the one who was shagging someone else (Nick Riley, according to this), a fact that the defence will no doubt use to muddy the waters.

If the case results in a conviction, what's the betting we'll hear lots more about Bradley Murdoch? On the other hand, if he's found not guilty, there is an implication there, isn't there?

There's a traditional thing in horror movies, where the girl who is not a virgin gets punished by the maniac/killer/monster. Joss Whedon played with this idea in Buffy quite a lot. The "last girl" was always the "good girl," the one who wasn't shagging another bloke behind her boyfriend's back. She's the only one who stands a chance of surviving, escaping the killer, as Joanne Lees did.

When Buffy slept with Angel, when she was no longer a virgin, it was Angel who became the homicidal killer Big Bad. So in a universe run by Whedon rules, Nick Riley is chief suspect. But in a universe run by tabloid newspaper rules, if Murdoch is innocent, then Joanne Lees is guilty.