Australia has a horrifying history when it comes to young people – young women, in particular – going missing in the outback.
The most visceral portrayal is possibly the 2005 horror film Wolf Creek – a fictionalised film which draws on several murders of backpackers in the late-1990s and early-2000s.
The ongoing case of Angie Fuller, a 30 year-old mother-of-two who went missing in the outback around Alice Springs in January, doesn’t necessarily fall into that category: we still don’t know for certain what happened to her.
But Northern Territory police are treating her disappearance as a homicide.
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