Gina McKeon
Gina McKeon is an ABC journalist and producer with an extensive track record of producing high-quality, original digital storytelling. She has won numerous local and international awards for her work, including multiple Walkley Awards, a Webby Award, and SXSW Interactive Innovation Award.
Latest by Gina McKeon
Inside a secret scam factory where workers pretend to be glamorous models
In the Dubai desert lies a scam factory capable of swindling tens of thousands of people at a time. But one scammer has a secret plan that could shut the whole syndicate down.
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We watched as an Australian got scammed. Trying to warn them was harder than you think
"Scam-baiter" Jim Browning takes Background Briefing inside the world of cybercrime and exposes the tactics used to con Australians out of nearly $3 billion a year.
From the age of 4, Gordi played contact sports. See how it has impacted his brain
The effect of head knocks over Gordi Kirkbank-Ellis's decades-long sporting career isn’t immediately obvious. That is, until you see what’s happening to his brain.
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20-year-old cold case: What happened to this missing Blue Mountains mum?
Gina McKeon and Ange McCormack
Nineteen-year-old Belinda Peisley vanished in September 1998. Years later, a murky network from the last few months of her life emerged.
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Photos from forensic dig under missing teen's former home show lingerie found buried in soil
Exclusive by Gina McKeon for ABC Unravel True Crime
Photographs obtained by the ABC show lingerie and a skirt found buried under the former home of Belinda Peisley, the Blue Mountains mother of two who vanished in 1998.
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Details of phone tap in cold case of missing Blue Mountains mother revealed
By Gina McKeon and Emma Lancaster
Details of a telephone intercept recorded during an investigation into the suspicious disappearance of Belinda Peisley suggest a former boyfriend was referring to a "dead chick".
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Police mishandled investigation of young mother's suspected homicide, expert says
By Gina McKeon and Ange McCormack
Police who investigated the disappearance of 19-year-old Belinda Peisley in 1998 missed a critical window of opportunity to gather evidence into her suspected homicide, a former NSW Police officer and missing persons expert says.
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Dress, undergarments found buried under missing mum's former Blue Mountains home
By police reporter Mark Reddie and Gina McKeon
An excavation at the former home of Belinda Peisley, the young mother who vanished in 1998, turns up undergarments and detectives are hopeful DNA testing will uncover new lines of inquiry.
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Police find items to be forensically tested at missing mum's former Blue Mountains home
By Gina McKeon, Emma Lancaster and Angelique Lu
Detectives say they will forensically test three items found in an excavation at the former home of a young mother who disappeared in suspicious circumstances from Katoomba, west of Sydney, 20 years ago.
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Extraordinary link between corrupt cop and serial rapist revealed
By Neil Mercer and Ruby Jones
Inside the disturbing life and vicious crimes of the "evil old man" suspected of killing 18-year-old Trudie Adams.
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They 'put his body on the tracks': New evidence cracks open 30-year cold case
By Allan Clarke
Thirty years after Mark Haines died on a lonely stretch of train track, a witness reveals for the first time he was there watching from the shadows that night.
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How solitary confinement affects inmates' mental health
By Gina McKeon; animation by Lucy Fahey
What does five years in solitary confinement do to a person? Former inmate Brett Collins reveals the story of his time in 'black cells'.
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Hubble's galaxy cluster image reveals 'cross-section of the Cosmos'
By Gina McKeon
If you are not among a select group of people who have studied astronomy, then this new intergalactic snap of a galaxy cluster taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope may be slightly overwhelming.
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Message in a bottle: 10 famous floating note discoveries
By Gina McKeon
What is believed to be the world's oldest discovered message in a bottle has been presented to the sender's granddaughter, 101 years after it was first tossed into the sea in Germany.
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Oxycodone: The factors behind Australians' increasing use of 'hillbilly heroin'
By Gina McKeon
Take a look at some of the factors behind Australians' increasing use of pharmaceutical opioids such as OxyContin.
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