Murder and the Hellcats

true crime · EN-AU

The Queensland Cat Protection Society president was gruesomely murdered in 1998 and everyone assumed it was her arch enemy in the society. No one thought it was a random attack. MURDER AND THE HELLCATS investigates this bizarre true crime, full of characters too strange to be true, and a justice system quick to convict on DNA evidence alone. When the victim, middle-aged veterinarian Kathleen Marshall, wasn’t helping animals she was defending Brisbane’s heritage architecture, the arts, green spaces or any other worthy cause she turned her attention to. She was the kind of neighbour if you lopped a tree, she‘d likely abuse you and then report you to council. With a sense of superiority and do-goodery, she was known in the neighbourhood as “an absolute bitch”. It wasn’t surprising when she joined the Cat Protection Society that she immediately muscled her way to the top job. But even before her ascendency, the Cat Society was not a cozy club of matronly women bottle-feedi