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  1. Kurve

    Unsolved Cold Case - Baby's body parcel posted in the mail Melbourne to Darwin

    A newborn baby found dead in a parcel, with police on opposite sides of Australia bewildered over who could have sent it. Wrapped in brown paper that had started to smell, Darwin Post Office workers made the grisly discovery on May 11, 1965. In the days that followed, it was reported the baby...
  2. Kurve

    Current Murder victim 'The Boy in the Box' is finally identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli

    After 65 Years, the 'Boy in the Box' has a name. Detective work and DNA analysis helped officials learn the identity of a 4-year-old boy whose beaten body was found naked and stuffed inside a cardboard box in Philadelphia in 1957. The brutality of his death shocked people’s consciousness – and...
  3. Kurve

    Current Beating murder of Melissa Hunt - Hunter region NSW * $1 million reward

    A $1 million reward has been posted for information into the murder of Melissa Hunt, more than 26 years ago. The body of Melissa Hunt, then aged 22, was found near the weir wall of Burrenjim Dam, Bluegum Creek via Stockrington, on Monday 25 April 1994. A post mortem examination revealed she...
  4. Kurve

    Unsolved Murder of Victoria Cafasso - Tasmania

    This unsolved cold case has been getting quite a lot of press recently. On an open beach, in broad daylight, 20-year-old Italian tourist Victoria Cafasso lay dying. Victoria was visiting from Italy and only been there a few days. Fifty people visited Beaumaris Beach on the idyllic...
  5. Kurve

    Unsolved Murder of Emma Jade Pawelski - SA

    At about 5.15 p.m. on Sunday 4 December 2005, the badly beaten and burned body of Emma Pawelski, aged 30 years, was discovered in the Mount Crawford Forrest by a bushwalker. This location was approximately 8km south east of Williamstown and off Chalks Road Mount Crawford. The area was a sealed...
  6. GreyCrow

    Current Matthew Tilley charged for 1993 murder of Suzanne Poll

    26 years after Suzanne Poll was brutally stabbed to death in her workplace a man has been arrested through the use of Familial DNA testing https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/man-arrested-over-murder-of-suzanne-poll/11534196 She was counting takings at the end of her shift at a stationery...
  7. Crimeobsessed

    Unsolved The mysterious death of Annette Deverell

    Has anyone heard about the case of 19-year-old girl Annette Deverell who disappeared from Mandurah in 1980 after going out to buy some smokes? Pretty interesting. New podcast is out here, 4-part series.
  8. Kurve

    Unsolved Janine Vaughan - Bathurst * Investigative podcast by Hedley Thomas

    Abducted 2001, never seen again. Presumed murdered. Interesting case that's been quite controversial given one of the police officers assigned to the investigation was suspected of, on record as stalking Janine and the work diary containing notes with details apparently disappeared. 31...
  9. Kurve

    Unsolved Execution Murder of Jill Dando - BBC's star journalist & Crimewatch presenter

    The golden girl of the BBC was returning home when she reached the door of her home in Fulham on April 26, 1999. But before Jill could get her keys in the door, she was shot once in the head with a 9mm bullet. There was no sign of a struggle and the killing was said to have taken place at...
  10. Kurve

    Current Trial The Teachers Pet Podcast & Chris Dawson's Murder Trial * New Carnal Knowledge Trial

    * Chris Dawson - CONVICTED Lyn’s husband, who denies murder lives on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast with his third wife. A former first grade rugby league player for the Newtown Jets in the 1970s, was a sports teacher at Sydney’s Cromer High School in 1980 when he started a sexual relationship...
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