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The police wouldn't look in the one place everyone knew she would be - Murder in the Goldfields

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Kalgoorlie was infamous in the 1980s as a drug fuelled party town ran by some of Australia's most dangerous biker gangs. It was here that Lisa Govan went missing one night. The Western Australian Goldfields desert can swallow you whole – vast, sparse, hot and pockmarked with abandoned mine shafts. Murder in the Goldfields investigates three baffling murders that have defied homicide detectives despite rising evidence. Why does the Kalgoorlie goldfields have more than its fair share of unsolved murders?