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Back to Episodes"The Chute" | The Mysterious Death of Phoebe Handsjuk
Description
In this episode of Super SUS, we cover the case of Phoebe Handsjuk, a 24-year-old woman who was found dead at the bottom of a garbage chute in the Balencea luxury high-rise in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2010. She was twelve floors below the apartment she shared with her much older boyfriend, an events promoter named Anthony "Ant" Hampel.
Police closed the case in five days and called it an accident. Phoebe's family never bought it. And the deeper you go, the harder it is to understand how anyone did.
This one has details that will genuinely floor you, a family that has spent 15 years refusing to let their daughter's name disappear, and a second young woman connected to Ant who died eight years later in circumstances just as strange.
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