On the evening of June 1, 1952, pretty 17-year-old Thelma Dal Pozzo was murdered as she walked home from a dance in her home town of Broken Hill. Six months later, 23-year-old local man Gilbert Ryan was sentenced to death for her killing. Justice was apparently done. Or was it? For 60 years, the truth has dwelled in this iconic outback Australian town, a place of secrets born of unbreakable loyalties, a place whose contempt for the gaze of outsiders earned it a reputation as a sovereign kingdom within a nation . In 2012, Jack Marx submersed himself into Broken Hill to discover the truth about the crime, the man they blamed and one of the strangest towns in the world.
