Burnt-out former cop Jamie Pultz thought he was done fighting crime in south east Queensland.
But one case, the suspicious death of a charismatic young mum he had met on a domestic violence call-out, continued to haunt him.
“I looked her in the eyes and said, ‘has he threatened you? No. Has he hit you? No. Like, do you need us to help? No.’
“I felt helpless. I really did. I felt, you know, like, is this what being a police officer is? We had to drive away,” he said.
Months later, when he heard Kirra McLoughlin had died, Pultz was hit hard.
He was the same age as Kirra – 27 – and he doubted her death was due to natural causes.
“This case has been haunting me,” he said. “You look at other suspicious deaths and there’s plenty of coverage about them. But this just seemed to go by the wayside.”
After Pultz left the police, he joined forces with another young ex-cop Tom Daunt.
Together, they launched their own podcast investigation into why no one had been charged with Kirra’s death.
Neither of them would anticipate the dark paths they would go down or their startling discoveries.
 Produced by Mayeta Clark.
