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Program: Long Read | The Girl Who Vanished From Her Bed: Part One

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By Maddison Connaughton Verified
| Background Briefing
Could new leads solve one of Australia’s most haunting cold cases, the disappearance of schoolgirl Eloise Worledge? This is part one of Maddison Connaughton's investigation, a collaboration with ABC Long Read.
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The battle for the Blue Zones

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By Maddison Connaughton Verified
| MSN Australia Verified
Maddison Connaughton for Background Briefing It was only near the end of his life when Stamatis Moraitis became famous for cheating death. On the idyllic Greek island of Ikaria, old timers gathered at the local cafe can still sketch the details of his remarkable story: the man who, in the 1970s, was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in the US and, given just months to live, decided to move back to this Mediterranean island to die. But when he got home to Ikaria, Moraitis did not die.
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Program: Beef | Battle for the Blue Zones 2

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By Maddison Connaughton Verified, Josh Robertson
| Background Briefing
You may have heard the strange story about the man who cheated death. Diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and given just months to live, he moved home to die in peace on the idyllic Greek island of Ikaria. But he didn't die. He lived for decades, and his miraculous recovery became one of the most shared stories of the Blue Zones movement, a prime example of the island's rare power to keep death at bay. There's just one problem. How much is actually known about this mysterious death-defying man?
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