Today’s episode is based on the book Homecoming by Kate Morton.

In the small town of Tambilla, in the Adelaide Hills, on Christmas Eve of 1959, the Turner family was discovered resting around a picnic blanket by the creek on the edge of their property by a mail carrier who was cutting through to let his horse drink from the cool water before making the trek back home.

But as he approached Isabel Turner and her children, he got the uncanny feeling that something was wrong. They were too still to have been sleeping. None of them were moving at all. Not even the young children—who everyone knows are restless sleepers. And the infant, the one Isabel had given birth to just a short time ago, swinging in a crib they’d hung from a sturdy branch of a tree, isn’t cooing or shifting.

And before he gets close enough to know, he knows. 

Every member of the Turner family, young and old, is dead.

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