On November 22, 1973 sixteen year old Sherrlynn Leigh Hill Mitchell left her home in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, to meet a friend at the bus stop. When this friend’s bus arrived Sherrlynn was not there. She has been missing since then. Sherrlynn did not return to her job at the Ballarat Woollen Mills, did not […]
Beaumont Children: New Leads, New Frustrations
February 19, 2018 By
Please welcome guest blogger Stephen Richey who will give us insight in the latest developments in the case of the missing Beaumont Children. ____________________ In an early blog post, Alice mentioned that ground penetrating radar (GPR) was used to locate an “anomaly” at a site where a tip suggested the children were buried. Some latched on to […]
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New excavation: the Beaumont Children
January 22, 2018 By
Update: authorities only found animal bones, no signs of human remains. The Australian papers just printed exciting news in the case of the three missing Beaumont Children. “Police have confirmed a new dig site in the search for the bodies of the missing Beaumont children.” Jane Nartare (9), Arnna Kathleen (7), and Grant Ellis (4), known […]
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Kylie Maybury: DNA evidence
May 30, 2017 By
The case Kylie Maybury is finally making progress: DNA confirmed that the semen found in this six-year-old little girl belongs to Gregory Keith Davies. Kylie Maria Antonia Maybury (October 24, 1978 – Nov 6, 1984) died of asphyxiation/suffocation (depriving of oxygen by obstructing the airways for example by choking or by pushing a pillow over someone’s […]
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The blood on my hands by Shannon O’Leary
November 11, 2016 By
“I used pseudonyms in the book in order to protect my family. He was never charged despite the police knowing about his activity. The police investigations were case files and are not available to the public. People outside Australia would not be aware that many of the missing person files in NSW in the 1960s […]
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Gun Alley by Kevin Morgan
September 10, 2016 By
Gun Alley by Kevin Morgan is about the murder of Alma Tirtschke (12) a.k.a. the “schoolgirl murder.” It is a cold case, a wrongful conviction, the rape-murder of a child, sloppy police work, jailhouse information, and a rush to judgment that led to the botched execution on April 24, 1922 of an innocent man. Collin Campbell […]
