The mysterious death of a woman who fell 40-meters down a garbage chute was found to be a 'freak accident' with a coronial inquest ruling she had placed herself in the compactor.
But experts have blown the lid on the 'unsatisfactory' police investigation with an experiment proving it would have been 'virtually impossible' to climb into the chute on her own.
Phoebe Handsjuk was found dead on the ground floor after tumbling 12 storeys in a luxury high-rise apartment in Melbourne where she lived with her older boyfriend Antony Hampel.
The 24-year-old woman plummeted feet first down the garbage compactor and bled to death in the dark while desperately crawling out of a wheelie bin for help after her right foot was almost severed off.
Victoria Police determined she had committed suicide on December 2, 2010 while a coroner ruled her death was a 'freak accident' - but her family rejected the findings.
She had spent her final hours drinking until she was three times over the legal limit, having left her apartment earlier in the day with her dog when a fire alarm went off.
Over a decade after her baffling death, mystery surrounds how Ms Handsjuk (pictured) ended up in the garbage chute
And 11 years on, her death remains a mystery as questions swirl around how she managed to get herself into the garbage chute hours later, leading to her horrific death.
Channel Nine's Under Investigation conducted an experiment with a model of the same age and build to see if she could lift herself into an exact replica of the chute.
After multiple failed attempts she was eventually able to climb inside the 22cm latch but only with her arms directly above her head.
Detectives who examined the scene concluded her arms must have been by her side during the fall given the nature of her wounds.
But in such a small space it would have been impossible to bring her arms from above her head to her sides bringing their theory into doubt.
Such an experiment was never carried out by police who believed Ms Handsjuk inexplicably climbed into the chute in a 'sleep-walk state' after taking a cocktail of alcohol and sleeping pills.
The 24-year-old (pictured) plummeted to her death feet first down the garbage compactor and bled to death in the dark after her right foot was almost severed off
Channel Nine's Under Investigation conducted an experiment with a model of the same age and build to see if she could lift herself into an exact replica of the chute - with the woman only managing to do so with her arms above her head and with great effort
Phoebe Handsjuk (left) was found dead on the ground floor after tumbling 12 storeys in a luxury high-rise apartment in Melbourne where she lived with her older boyfriend Antony Hampel (right)
However given the difficulty of a sober person attempting to lift themselves into the chute it appears extremely unlikely Ms Handsjuk in her intoxicated state would have had the coordination to do so.
'One of the major problems apart from the dimensions is that the door comes up against your lower back and jams you in, so trying to manoeuvre yourself is then not helped by the fact there is nothing to grip onto,' retired Victoria Police Detective Rowland Legg told the program.
'And on top of that whatever Phoebe had in her
