In December 1873, 25-year-old Elizabeth Woolcock walked to the portable gallows in the laneway of the Adelaide Gaol wearing a simple white frock and carrying a posy of flowers.
She was to be judicially executed for the supposed murder of her husband Thomas Woolcock in the mining area of Moonta, South Australia. But was she actually guilty?
Elizabeth's life was one of lifelong trauma, her life touching on the Eureka Stockade, sexual assault and drug use. But did she deserve to die for her alleged crime in a time when she was unable to speak in her own defence.
This is the story of Elizabeth Woolcock
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