Previously unseen footage shows tragic Jill Meagher's walk home and a hooded man, believed to be her accused killer Adrian Bayley running toward her on the night she died.
JILL Meagher had been planning to buy a house and start a family.
She'd also confided to colleagues she was going through a mid-life crisis, and was hoping to branch out into writing TV comedies.
But things at home, and with husband Tom, had never been better.
Tom would spend some weekends DJ-ing in the city, while bubbly Jill caught up with friends at local bars and clubs.
She'd talked for the first time of starting a family, brother Michael McKeon told police - something she'd previously opposed.
Jill Meagher and Tom on their wedding day.
Jill told her brother that after that brief split, she'd decided she wanted a family and had discussed it with Tom.
"After this incident Gillian had told me that this short separation was the best thing that happened and they were getting along better than ever," Mr McKeon said.
"They were even talking about buying a house and having kids."
Court releases a series of CCTV recordings that show Jill Meagher, and her accused killer Adrian Bayley, at various locations on the night she was killed.
Mr Meagher told police the couple had a "fantastic" relationship and things were "back to normal" following the brief separation.
"We did have our most serious issue in about March this year, where we separated for a while but we got back together. There was a good bit of change going on: we both changed jobs and I was in a bad place with my job; I didn't like it, and we started getting a bit cranky with each other," he said.
The break had been short-lived as it became obvious they missed each other.
"After a few weeks we started missing each other and started seeing each other casually. By June, I have moved back in.
Jill Meagher's husband, Tom (left) and brother, Michael McKeon. Picture: Jon Hargest
"It has been fantastic since then, back to normal."
The couple had recently attended a friend's wedding in Ireland where, 10 years earlier, they had met while young students at Dublin's University College.
He was 21; she was 19, and studying a degree in English and sociology.
They had both just come out of other relationships when they started seeing each other, and dated for several years before marrying in Ireland in July 2008.
They made the permanent move to Melbourne the following year, having previously visited together with mates on a working holiday.
Jill was already an Australian citizen, gaining citizenship four years after moving to Western Australia with her family in 1990.
The McKeons had moved here to allow dad George to take up work as an accountant, and they stayed for eight years until his work took him elsewhere.
In that time, Jill had moved back to Ireland with Tom, where she worked with the country's national radio and television broadcaster, RTE.
In time Jill and Tom, and the McKeons, would settle permanently in Australia, albeit on different sides of the country.
The week before she died, Jill had visited her dad in Perth after he had suffered a stroke.
He was expected to visit her in Melbourne as part of his recovery, but the Perth visit proved to be the last time the whole family would be together again.
shannon.deery@news.com.au
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