Unsolved Lina Marciarno , 1st March 1978 Homicide. Nailsworth South Australia

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At about 6.40 p.m. on Wednesday 1 March 1978, Lina Marciano, aged 19 years, left her home address on her Honda motorcycle to attend Greek dancing lessons at the Nailsworth Primary School. She never attended that lesson and was never seen alive again.

Lina's motorcycle was located in the Kentucky Fried Chicken car park opposite the Nailsworth Primary School.

At about 9.30 a.m. on Saturday 4 March 1978 Lina's body was located in the Roy Amer rubbish dump, Magazine Road Dry Creek.
She had been beaten and stabbed to death.

https://crimestopperssa.com.au/case/lina-marciano/

 

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1 March 1978
LINA MARCIANO (19)

Last seen - leaving her home in Wayville, SA, on a motorcycle en route to Nailsworth.
Her motorcycle was found at a KFC restaurant in Nailsworth.
Her body was found in a rubbish tip at Dry Creek on 4 March.
She was bound and gagged and wrapped in a curtain.
She had been bashed and stabbed to death.

Reward - SA Police - $200,000

http://missingandmurderedaustralia.blogspot.com.au/1978/03/lina-marciano.html?m=1

 

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Lina Marciano murder remains one of SA’s most enduring mysteries
Nigel Hunt, Sunday Mail (SA)
March 28, 2015 11:21pm

"The murder of Lina Marciano in March, 1978, remains one of SA’s most enduring mysteries. It is also one of the most alarming.
The attractive student teacher was subjected to a horrific bashing that knocked out her teeth, before being stabbed in the chest, bound and gagged and then wrapped in a curtain and discarded at the rubbish dump.

The case file has just been subjected to a comprehensive review and as a result several exhibits are now being subjected to advanced DNA testing in order to gain more evidence in the investigation.
Case officer Detective Brevet Sergeant Tucker said the suspect in the case had been interviewed on several occasions and a DNA sample taken from him as part of the inquiry.
During his last interview he initially cooperated, but then terminated the interview.
Detectives believe Ms Marciano was attacked after arriving at the school for her Greek dance lesson on March 1, 1978.
Her motorcycle was found in the carpark of the adjacent KFC outlet.
While her body was found at the dump on March 3, her motorcycle helmet has never been recovered.

It is highly likely the attack was random, as it was only the second time Lina had attended the school for the dancing lessons.
It is also likely that she was grabbed in the school grounds and then murdered in one of the classrooms.
While no motive has been uncovered, the fact she was bound and gagged when found indicates there may have been an intention to sexually assault her – even though there is no evidence of this occurring.

While initial investigations failed to advance the case, a breakthrough came in 1992 when a woman closely linked to the suspect contacted police with vital information implicating him.
In an unusual twist, the woman, a cleaner at the Nailsworth Primary School, was subsequently assaulted on four separate occasions and told to “keep her mouth shut’’ by her attacker, whom she could not identify.

In another development in 2005, police took the unusual step of conducting a painstaking search of a precise area in the grounds of Waldorf School at Mt Barker, where a classroom from Nailsworth Primary School was relocated in 1983.
The classroom was dismantled in 2002 and the timber, including floorboards, used for projects at Waldorf.
Forensics officers sifted through dirt in a 100sq m area looking for any of Ms Marciano’s teeth that may have been lodged between the floorboards.
None were located."

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...s/news-story/b43ad1c2d885b9d87f9ae4202f91a912

 

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Lina Marciano murder haunts family
September 15, 2009
The Advertiser

"Ms Marciano left her Wayville home on Wednesday, March 1, 1978 on a motorcycle to attend a Greek dancing class at Nailsworth Primary School on Main North Rd.

She never made it to the class and her body was found bound and gagged and wrapped in a brown curtain, at the Dry Creek rubbish dump three days later.

Two other curtains of the same material - most likely manufactured in either West Germany or Belgium - also were found at the dump, with a third several hundred metres away.

The curtains had blood and forging fibres on them.

The innocent young woman had been bludgeoned with multiple blows to the head, strangled, stabbed in the heart and had several fingers broken, perhaps while attempting to protect her head from the brutal and frenzied attack.

The investigation into Ms Marciano's murder was reopened in 1991 when a female cleaner at Nailsworth Primary School provided fresh information to police."

https://amp.adelaidenow.com.au/news...y/news-story/ef120d316ef13988815e563fa4cf294a

 

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I did not know they had a suspect. I had always connected it to Worral and Miller because of the location of the dump site. One of their early victims was also found in Dry Creek Wingfield area

 

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Lina Marciano: Her murder led to a twisted serial killer but remains unsolved

DETECTIVES in the “City of Evil” finally knew it for certain: they had a serial killer in their midst.

amp.news.com.au

"Four days later, Lina’s body was found bound, gagged and wrapped in a brown curtain on a rubbish tip 8km away in the northern Adelaide industrial suburb of Dry Creek.
She had been strangled with a Hot Track Road Racing Set cord, bludgeoned with multiple blows to the head, strangled, stabbed in the heart and had several broken fingers.
Two curtains made from the same material, which was later sourced to manufacturers in West Germany or Belgium, were found amid rubbish at the same dump.
The curtains had blood and fibres on them and a third curtain was located several hundred metres away.
Police examining Lina’s body ascertained she had died in a frenzied attack with stab wounds and blows which both would have been fatal.
As now retired detective Allen Arthur told Channel 9’s City of Evil series, “it was a horrific scene simply because it was an overkill and she was sort of dumped like trash”.
Lina’s blue-and-white motorcycle was found in the KFC restaurant carpark opposite Nailsworth school, indicating she had at least arrived for the dancing class."