Centenaries - whole and half

[Ginger]

I haven't read it, but what I've heard says "Save your money".

Thanks!

[GUT]

I wasn't familiar with the Wanda Beach murders, although the case of the Beaumont Children is well-known here in the States (there's just something about an unsolved disappearance that excites more and wider interest than a known murder).

Someone's published a book last summer that alleges to have a strong suspect for both cases, it seems:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3124019/How-cop-came-hours-solving-infamous-Wanda-Beach-Beaumont-cold-cases-Child-killer-Derek-Percy-teased-police-officer-death-bed-giving-clues-linking-murders-NINE-children.html

Has anyone read it? I'm considering buying it myself, but it's always nice to hear a review or two.

I haven't read it, but what I've heard says "Save your money".

[Ginger]

I wasn't familiar with the Wanda Beach murders, although the case of the Beaumont Children is well-known here in the States (there's just something about an unsolved disappearance that excites more and wider interest than a known murder).

Someone's published a book last summer that alleges to have a strong suspect for both cases, it seems:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3124019/How-cop-came-hours-solving-infamous-Wanda-Beach-Beaumont-cold-cases-Child-killer-Derek-Percy-teased-police-officer-death-bed-giving-clues-linking-murders-NINE-children.html

Has anyone read it? I'm considering buying it myself, but it's always nice to hear a review or two.

[GUT]

50 years ago - 1966 February 17 - After leaving a Sydney nightclub, Anna Dowlingkoa is never seen alive again. Toward the end of the month, the prostitute's mutilated body is found in a suburb of the city. Her murder remains unsolved.

About an hour from The Cross to where the body was found.

[GUT]

50 years ago - 1966 February 17 - After leaving a Sydney nightclub, Anna Dowlingkoa is never seen alive again. Toward the end of the month, the prostitute's mutilated body is found in a suburb of the city. Her murder remains unsolved.

If memory serves, the police suspected it may have been linked to the Wanda Beach murders. Never been able to work out why, but apparently that was the thought.

The body was actually found at Menai from memory.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 February 17 - After leaving a Sydney nightclub, Anna Dowlingkoa is never seen alive again. Toward the end of the month, the prostitute's mutilated body is found in a suburb of the city. Her murder remains unsolved.

[sdreid]

150 years ago - 1866 February 13 - A nineteen-year-old bystander, George Wymore is shot and killed during an afternoon bank robbery in Liberty, Missouri. Suspicion is that the heist was to work of the James-Younger gang.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 February 11 - The body of Joanne Fantazier, 17, is found under a bridge in New Jersey. Ms. Fantazier had been beaten to death and thrown off the structure. She is believed to be the second victim of the Jersey Shore Killer, a serial killer who has never been captured or identified.

50 years ago - 1966 February 11 - In Northeastern Illinois, Debbie Fijan, 10, stays after school to keep time for a basketball game but does not return home. Later, her body is found in a ditch. She had been stabbed nineteen times. Debbie's murder is still unsolved.

[DJA]

Too young for the Beaumont Case.

[GUT]

And yep good old Mr Stinky.

[GUT]

Yes, Gut, I wasn't in Australia in the 60's but I remember the arrest of Raymond Edmunds. Wasn't he christened Mr Stinky due to his industrial type smell being noted when he performed a series of rapes? I believe he was only caught because NSW took his fingerprints on that later occasion for some minor offence.

Flashing it at school kids if I remember.

[Rosella]

Yes, Gut, I wasn't in Australia in the 60's but I remember the arrest of Raymond Edmunds. Wasn't he christened Mr Stinky due to his industrial type smell being noted when he performed a series of rapes? I believe he was only caught because NSW took his fingerprints on that later occasion for some minor offence.

[GUT]

50 years ago - 1966 February 10 - Eighteen-year-old Garry Heywood is shot in the head and killed after leaving a dance in Australia. His date, Abina Madill, 16, was raped and beaten to death. The case went unsolved for over 19 years when Raymond Edmunds was arrested for a lesser crime and it was discovered that his fingerprints matched those the perpetrator had left at the scene of the double murder. Edmunds was sent to prison for life and is suspected of possibly committing many more rapes and murders.

Must be getting old. I remember that one.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 February 10 - Eighteen-year-old Garry Heywood is shot in the head and killed after leaving a dance in Australia. His date, Abina Madill, 16, was raped and beaten to death. The case went unsolved for over 19 years when Raymond Edmunds was arrested for a lesser crime and it was discovered that his fingerprints matched those the perpetrator had left at the scene of the double murder. Edmunds was sent to prison for life and is suspected of possibly committing many more rapes and murders.

[DJA]

Think the police have a very good idea who the murderer was.

Paedophile. Known to be in that area at that time.