Chilling prison letters sent by a mother who killed her four babies have been revealed.
Kathleen Folbigg, 51, is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence for the manslaughter of her first child Caleb and the murder of her three children Patrick, Sarah and Laura at Singleton in New South Wales’ Hunter valley between 1989 and 1999.
The children were aged nineteen days, eight months, ten months and nineteen months, respectively.
A series of letters that Folbigg wrote to a friend last year, however, read more like the reflections of a heartbroken mother than a cold-blooded serial killer.
Kathleen Folbigg (pictured), 51, is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence for the manslaughter of her first child and the murder of her three others


Caleb (left) was just nineteen days old when he died, while Patrick (right), Sarah and Laura were eight months, ten months and nineteen months, respectively

Pictured: Laura Forbigg, one of Katherine Forbigg’s four children who allegedly died by her hand between 1989 and 1999
‘Trembling. Missing so hard. So much heartache,’ she wrote about her home and life prior to being convicted and jailed.
‘I recognise my home area from drives all those ages ago,’ she wrote to former Newcastle schoolmate Tracy Chapman after being driven through the area of the crimes on the way to Cessnock Prison.
Folbigg – Australia’s worst female mass murderer – may have been unfairly sentenced, however, according to a group of lawyers petitioning to have her case reviewed.
In 2003 a court heard they had died at the hands of a mother who was driven to smother them in violent fits of rage.
Barrister Isabel Reed – one of several lawyers who has been working on a petition to have Folbigg’s case reviewed by the NSW justice system – insists there’s not enough hard evidence to convincingly support the conviction.

A series of letters that Folbigg wrote to a friend last year after being transitted to Cessnock Prison (pictured), however, read more like the reflections of a heartbroken mother than a cold-blooded serial killer
‘We don’t want her released from prison. We just want an inquiry to look at the evidence and consider: has there been a miscarriage of justice here?’ Ms Reed told The Sydney Morning Herald.
‘I didn’t think when we started this that that was a big ask.’
Monash University forensic pathologist Stephen Cordner, who is also involved in the petition, agrees ‘there is no pathological or medical basis for concluding homicide’ in the case of Folbigg’s deceased children.
Courts previously heard it was ‘cessation of breathing’ that led to each child’s sudden and unexpected death – though post-mortems failed to shed conclusive light on any cause beyond that.
Moreover, much of the evidence used in the trial was deemed to have been misleading .

A group of lawyers who believe Folbigg may have been unfairly sentenced are appealing for NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman (pictured) to launch a formal inquiry into her case
Ms Reed claims to have called the office of NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman every two weeks for the past two years in an effort to have him launch a formal inquiry into Folbigg’s case, to little avail.
And on Monday, August 13th, the details of the mother-turned-murderer’s case will be laid bare in the ABC’s Australian Story program.
‘I don’t know whether public pressure is a thing that might help with a decision,’ said Ms Reed. ‘[But] I’m hoping he’ll (Mark Speakman) watch and at least not be able to sleep comfortably on Monday night.’

In the meantime, Katherine Folbigg is left with little more than the memories of her nostalgic drive from one cell to another – which she says ended abruptly when she ‘had to connect myself with the bleak dull future I now had’
In the meantime, Katherine Folbigg is left with little more than the memories of her nostalgic drive from one cell to another – which she says ended abruptly when she ‘had to connect myself with the bleak dull future I now had.
‘It was time to remind myself I was a prisoner, not Kathleen driving in a car,’ she wrote in her letters to Ms Chapman.
‘One day I shall be that woman, someone, once again. Till then that trip sustains me, keeps me in touch with who I was and still can be.’
Folbigg’s case is being explored by the ABC’s Australian Story next Monday.