Unsolved Missing Australia Women and Serial Killers

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Then again it did turn into a dumpster fire at the end

But here it is Likeamystery

I was going back over one of the earlier threads, users pretending they had insider knowledge and you were going to be arrested, I also was going to be arrested for showing up at his front door and sneaking around in a red dress. It was hilarious.
 

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Updated from OP - more to come



1993 TAS26Nancy Grunwaldt - one theory is hit run and hiding of body
1993 Green Valley NSW 25 Tracey Valesini Anglo - likely domestic connection
1993 Lennox Head NSW 31 Bronwyn Winfield Anglo
1992 Geelong VIC 13 Clare Morrison Anglo - Shane McLaren suspected
1992 ACT 18 Amelia Hausia Tongan - runaway
1992 Morphett Vale SA 12 Rhianna Barreau Anglo
1992 Gold Coast QLD 24 Kathleen Farrow Anglo

1992 Armadale WA 46 Debra Donachy Anglo

1991 Fitzgerald TAS 14 Eve Askew Anglo - runaway
1991 Regents Park NSW 14 Bianca Nelson Arabic - runaway
1991 Templestowe VIC 13 Karmein Chan Asian - Maybe Mr Cruel
1991 Eagle Vale NSW 22 Carmen Verheyden Anglo - Maybe Milat

1990 Riverview QLD 27 Julie-Ann Gallon Anglo

Updated
1990 Bowraville NSW 16 Colleen Walker Aboriginal - suspect charged and acquitted of 2 murders and suspected in 3

1990 Bordetown SA 15 Fiona Burns Anglo - Fiona was in the company of Jason Lee and BOTH bodies were found in a road side rest stop

1992 Glenroy VIC 13 Prudence Bird Anglo - Les Camilleri convicted of her murder

1992 Bundeena NSW 37 Pia Navida Filipino - Steve Matthews charged and convicted of rape/murder

1992 Geelong West VIC 30 Anette Steward Anglo - Darren Chalmers suspected
When Chalmers was charged in January last year it was revealed that after his arrest, Victorian detectives had flown to Perth to interview him about the death of 28-year-old Annette Steward in Geelong West in March 1992.

1992 Katoomba NSW 23 Maureen McLaughlin Anglo
1998 Katoomba NSW 19 Belinda Peisley Anglo
2001 Katoomba NSW 24 Kelly Carmichael Anglo
All linked to drug scene and associations - just means someone in those circles may also be a SK
https://www.lithgowmercury.com.au/s...help-doco-draws-attention-back-to-cold-cases/

1992 WA 14 Radina Djukich Anglo - Ronald Buckland dies before court appearance over murder

1996 Claremont WA 25 Jane Rimmer Anglo
1996 Claremont WA 22 Sarah Spiers Anglo
1997 Claremont WA 27 Ciara Glennon Anglo
BRE convicted of Rimmer/Glennon - not guilty on SS
 
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1999 Sunshine Coast QLD 35 Kerry Engwirda Anglo
1999 Kalgoorlie WA 28 Lisa Govan Anglo

1999 Huskisson NSW 16 Kathleen Harris Anglo
1999 Alice Springs NT 34 Christine Somogyi Anglo
1999 Ballarat VIC 36 Belinda Williams Anglo
1998 Ballarat VIC 33 Tracey Howard Anglo
1998 North Perth WA 18 Lisa Brown Anglo Linked to Rebecca DesLande murder


1998 Kensington Gardens SA 48 Christne Redford Anglo


1997 Albany WA 25 Peta Weber Anglo - possible domestic situation

1997 Melbourne VIC 33 Theresa Pace Maltese


1996 Annerley QLD 39 Kiai Kila PNG
1996 Bondi NSW 30 Talei Pless Anglo
1996 Moe VIC 33 Marcia Ryan Anglo

1995 Palm Beach QLD 24 Tamela Menzies Anglo
1995 Refern NSW 39 Elizabeth Barlow Aboriginal
1995 Footscray VIC 26 Shari Davison Anglo
1995 Brighton NSW 30 Lisa Flanagan Anglo


1994 Kingsford NSW 22 Revelle Balmain Anglo


1995 Kardinya WA 20 Karen Skinner Anglo - located

1998 Nimbin NSW 38 Lois Roberts Aboriginal
1997 Yamba NSW 16 Lee Stace Anglo
1996 Coffs Harbour NSW 20 Ineka Hinkley Anglo

1997 Broome WA 24 Sara-Lee Davey Aboriginal - Richard Dorrough suspected

1998 Bowen QLD 16 Rachel Antonio Anglo - male acquitted of murder/manslaughter

1997 Kelso/Bathurst NSW 15 Jessica Small Anglo

1998 Clyde NSW 12 Quanne Diec East Asian
Man confessed and charged - but acquitted - possible ransom motive

1999 Badjingarra WA 17 Hayley Dodd Anglo
Francis Wark convicted of murder appealed and convicted of manslaughter
 
Casefile had an episode on Simone Strobel that they ended up having to scrub from the net. Apparently Toby's very trigger happy with the lawyers, need I say more...
Then Tobias needs to man up


The first inquest found that despite the "thoroughness of the police investigation, and despite the very strong suspicion that Tobias Suckfuell, and maybe Katrin Suckfuell, had an involvement in the circumstances that led to Simone's death",
 

The search comes just two days after $1m rewards were announced for information in relation to both cases as senior police confirmed Strike Force Arapaima detectives had “strong lines of inquiry” into the Robinson and Hickie cases.
It is an old scout camp on the banks of picturesque Lake Macquarie which detectives fear could have secretly doubled as a serial killer’s dumping ground more than four decades ago.
Police have identified numerous possible dig sites within the old Camp Kanangra scout camp at Nords Wharf as they search for the remains of missing teenagers Robyn Hickie and Amanda Robinson, who disappeared during a two-week period in 1979.
The search, using specialist police and an excavator, went throughout Wednesday and will continue on Thursday. The patch of land – less than 9km from where 14-year-old Amanda vanished while walking to her Swansea home on April 21, 1979 – has been identified by Strike Force Arapaima detectives following a painstaking two-year investigation into the disappearances and suspected murders of the two girls. Robyn, 18, vanished from a Belmont North bus stop on April 7, 1979. A fortnight later, Amanda would disappear as she walked home along Lake Rd at Swansea after getting off a bus from a school dance.
Detectives strongly suspect links between the cases and the search of the old Camp Kanangra scout camp follows specific information reported to investigators. The area in question remained a scout camp for decades — including at the time both teenagers vanished — before it was snapped up by developers in 2013.
The current owners have been extremely cooperative with investigators to help identify specific areas of land on the property.
“The information garnered throughout the investigation has led us to investigate this site but I want to stress this is one site out of a number of many and police are continuing to follow strong leads in regards to this investigation,’’ Lake Macquarie crime manager Detective Inspector Steve Benson said outside the scout camp on Wednesday.
Det Insp Benson said the sites were all in and around Lake Macquarie.
It is understood that included more areas needing further investigation within the old scout camp.
The search comes just two days after $1m rewards were announced for information in relation to both cases as senior police confirmed Strike Force Arapaima detectives had “strong lines of inquiry” into the Robinson and Hickie cases.
“[We are] looking for evidence to the disappearances. The specific nature of that I won’t go into because we have got to maintain the integrity of the investigation,’’ Det Insp Benson said.
“But I would also like to take the opportunity to thank those that have come forward since Monday.
“We are reviewing every single piece of information that has come through and we will be in contact with the people.’’
Police cordoned off an area surrounding the southern end of Nords Wharf on Wednesday morning after spending several days there in the past week checking out possible “areas of interest”.
The strike force kicked off a fresh investigation into the suspected murders in early 2019. Together with the two 1979 disappearances, they are also looking into fresh lines of inquiry into the unrelated abduction of Gordana Kotevski at Charlestown in 1994. Robyn was on her way to meet friends at a Belmont pub when she disappeared from the Pacific Highway bus stop near the intersection with Ntaba Rd.
And Amanda was seen getting off a bus at Swansea after catching it home from a school dance at Gateshead. Credible witnesses say they last saw Amanda walking on the northern side of Lake Rd and just a few hundred metres from home.
It is not the first time that police have performed land searches in relation to the disappearances of the two Lake Macquarie girls. Strike Force Fenwick, established in the late 1990s to reinvestigate more than a dozen suspicious disappearances across the Hunter, also searched parts of Lake Macquarie during its investigation.
A coroners inquest in 2001 into the Hickie and Robinson cases, as well as Lake Macquarie woman Leanne Goodall, heard evidence from backpacker killer Ivan Milat.
However, Strike Fore Arapaima detectives have ruled Milat out as a suspect in the Hickie and Robinson investigations. The Newcastle News revealed earlier this month that a woman was able to escape the clutches of an kidnapper at Blacksmiths Beach in January, 1979 – just four months before the Robyn and Hickie disappeared and only a few kilometres from both areas where they were both seen.
The woman also reported her attacker was driving a green Holden Torana, the same colour and make as has been seen in the vicinity of Amanda’s disappearance.

 
I've compiled a list from the aforementioned site (will add to it). i know of a few who aren't on there so I suggest there are lots. Let me know if anyone recognises missing/murdered women who aren't on there.

At first look it's apparent most are one off from husbands and boyfriends but I have no doubt we have 1 or 2 serial killers undetected roaming around. 3 girls from Katoomba and 2 from Ballarat raised my eyebrows. One of the Ballarat ones may be consistent with the CSK.

2011 Nerang QLD 50 Catherine Davis Anglo
2011 Boronia VIC 13 Bung Siriboon Thai
2010 Darwin NT 46 Karen kelly Anglo
2009 Mt Pritchard NSW 15 Rista Chanthavixnay Indian
2008 Burnie TAS 20 Helen Munnings Anglo
2008 Oakleigh South VIC 23 Sally Cheong Asian
2008 Roseville NSW 34 Merry Faustd Filipino
2007 Melton South VIC 41 Cindy Crossthwaite Anglo
2006 Resevoir Vic 16 Kimberley Nelson Anglo
2005 Warburton WA 28 Donelle Newberry Aboriginal
2005 Lismore NSW 25 Simone Strobel Anglo
2004 Willawarrin NSW 19 Kylee Schaffer Anglo
2004 Alice Springs NT 52 Jennifer Lane Anglo
2003 Katoomba NSW 24 Ariel Livesey Anglo
2003 Gembrook VIC 31 Joanne Deason Anglo
2003 Goondiwindi QLD Therese Binge Aboriginal
2003 Lewisham NSW 31 Louisa Wawn Anglo
2003 Bellingen NSW 18 Rose Howell Anglo
2002 Wangaratta VIC 37 Kath Bergamin Anglo
2002 Port Lincoln SA 40 Susan Gooswin Anglo
2002 Campbelltown NSW 19 Amber Haigh Anglo
2002 Batlow/Tumut NSW 18 Naimh Maye Anglo
2002 Canberra ACT 23 Kathryn Grosvenor Anglo
2002 Pennington SA 35 Karen Morton Anglo
2002 Gladesville NSW 32 Carmen Giannasca Italian
2001 Bathurst NSW 31 Janine Vaughan Anglo
2001 Margate QLD 34 Patricia Riggs Anglo
2001 Katoomba NSW 24 Kelly Carmichael Anglo
2000 Swan Districts WA 20 Sarah McMahon Anglo
2000 Mudgee NSW 39 Michelle Mills Anglo
2000 Croydon VIC 42 Linda Grimstone Anglo
2000 Blair Athol SA 15 Melissa Brown Anglo
2000 Somers VIC 56 Carolyn Wilson Anglo
2000 Cairns QLD 18 Angela mealing Anglo
2000 Middle swan WA 24 Deborah Anderson Anglo
1999 Sunshine Coast QLD 35 Kerry Engwirda Anglo
1999 Kalgoorlie WA 28 Lisa Govan Anglo
1999 Badjingarra WA 17 Hayley Dodd Anglo
1999 Huskisson NSW 16 Kathleen Harris Anglo
1999 Alice Springs NT 34 Christine Somogyi Anglo
1999 Ballarat VIC 36 Belinda Williams Anglo
1998 Ballarat VIC 33 Tracey Howard Anglo
1998 North Perth WA 18 Lisa Brown Anglo
1998 Katoomba NSW 19 Belinda Peisley Anglo
1998 Clyde NSW 12 Quanne Diec East Asian
1998 Kensington Gardens SA 48 Christne Reford Anglo
1998 Bowen QLD 16 Rachel Antonio Anglo
1998 Nimbin NSW 38 Lois Roberts Aboriginal
1997 Kelso/Bathurst NSW 15 Jessica Small Anglo
1997 Albany WA 25 Peta Weber Anglo
1997 Claremont WA 27 Ciara Glennon Anglo
1997 Melbourne VIC 33 Theresa Pace Maltese
1997 Broome WA 24 Sara-Lee Davey Aboriginal
1997 Yamba NSW 16 Lee Stace Anglo
1996 Coffs Harbour NSW 20 Ineka Hinkley Anglo
1996 Annerley QLD 39 Kiai Kila PNG
1996 Bondi NSW 30 Talei Pless Anglo
1996 Moe VIC 33 Marcia Ryan Anglo
1996 Claremont WA 25 Jane Rimmer Anglo
1996 Claremont WA 22 Sarah Spiers Anglo
1995 Palm Beach QLD 24 Tamela Menzies Anglo
1995 Refern NSW 39 Elizabeth Barlow Aboriginal
1995 Footscray VIC 26 Shari Davison Anglo
1995 Brighton NSW 30 Lisa Flanagan Anglo
1995 Kardinya WA 20 Karen Skinner Anglo
1994 Kingsford NSW 22 Revelle Balmain Anglo

1993 TAS26Nancy Grunwaldt
1993 Green Valley NSW 25 Tracey Valesini Anglo
1993 Lennox Head NSW 31 Bronwyn Winfield Anglo
1992 Geelong VIC 13 Claare Morrison Anglo
1992 ACT 18 Amelia Hausia Tongan
1992 Morphett Vale SA 12 Rhianna Barreau Anglo
1992 Gold Coast QLD 24 Kathleen Farrow Anglo
1992 WA 14 Radina Djukich Anglo
1992 Armadale WA 46 Debra Donachy Anglo
1992 Katoomba NSW 23 Maureen McLaughlin Anglo
1992 Geelong West VIC 30 Anette Steward Anglo
1992 Bundeena NSW 37 Pia Navida Filipino
1992 Glenroy VIC 13 Prudence Bird Anglo
1991 Fitzgerald TAS 14 Eve Askew Anglo
1991 Regents Park NSW 14 Bianca Nelson Arabic
1991 Templestowe VIC 13 Karmein Chan Asian
1991 Eagle Vale NSW 22 Carmen Verheyden Anglo
1990 Bordetown SA 15 Fiona Burns Anglo
1990 Bowraville NSW 16 Colleen Walker Aboriginal
1990 Riverview QLD 27 Julie-Ann Gallon Anglo

There's been an arrest for the murder of Amber Haigh.
 
An arrest has been made for the murder of backpacker Simone Strobel with police seeking two more persons on warrants

New thread here:

 
Updated from OP - more to come



1993 TAS26Nancy Grunwaldt - one theory is hit run and hiding of body
1993 Green Valley NSW 25 Tracey Valesini Anglo - likely domestic connection
1993 Lennox Head NSW 31 Bronwyn Winfield Anglo
1992 Geelong VIC 13 Clare Morrison Anglo - Shane McLaren suspected
1992 ACT 18 Amelia Hausia Tongan - runaway
1992 Morphett Vale SA 12 Rhianna Barreau Anglo
1992 Gold Coast QLD 24 Kathleen Farrow Anglo

1992 Armadale WA 46 Debra Donachy Anglo

1991 Fitzgerald TAS 14 Eve Askew Anglo - runaway
1991 Regents Park NSW 14 Bianca Nelson Arabic - runaway
1991 Templestowe VIC 13 Karmein Chan Asian - Maybe Mr Cruel
1991 Eagle Vale NSW 22 Carmen Verheyden Anglo - Maybe Milat

1990 Riverview QLD 27 Julie-Ann Gallon Anglo

Updated
1990 Bowraville NSW 16 Colleen Walker Aboriginal - suspect charged and acquitted of 2 murders and suspected in 3

1990 Bordetown SA 15 Fiona Burns Anglo - Fiona was in the company of Jason Lee and BOTH bodies were found in a road side rest stop

1992 Glenroy VIC 13 Prudence Bird Anglo - Les Camilleri convicted of her murder

1992 Bundeena NSW 37 Pia Navida Filipino - Steve Matthews charged and convicted of rape/murder

1992 Geelong West VIC 30 Anette Steward Anglo - Darren Chalmers suspected
When Chalmers was charged in January last year it was revealed that after his arrest, Victorian detectives had flown to Perth to interview him about the death of 28-year-old Annette Steward in Geelong West in March 1992.

1992 Katoomba NSW 23 Maureen McLaughlin Anglo
1998 Katoomba NSW 19 Belinda Peisley Anglo
2001 Katoomba NSW 24 Kelly Carmichael Anglo
All linked to drug scene and associations - just means someone in those circles may also be a SK
Can Lithgow people help? Doco draws attention back to cold cases

1992 WA 14 Radina Djukich Anglo - Ronald Buckland dies before court appearance over murder

1996 Claremont WA 25 Jane Rimmer Anglo
1996 Claremont WA 22 Sarah Spiers Anglo
1997 Claremont WA 27 Ciara Glennon Anglo
BRE convicted of Rimmer/Glennon - not guilty on SS
This one was familiar to me.
1992 Armadale WA 46 Debra Donachy Anglo
most likely her husband James who died in a single car accident into a tree the day after he was questioned by police.

 

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She's not actually missing as she was found dead by her husband in their home, but it would be great if the Corinna Marr case could be solved.

 
The search comes just two days after $1m rewards were announced for information in relation to both cases as senior police confirmed Strike Force Arapaima detectives had “strong lines of inquiry” into the Robinson and Hickie cases.
It is an old scout camp on the banks of picturesque Lake Macquarie which detectives fear could have secretly doubled as a serial killer’s dumping ground more than four decades ago.
Police have identified numerous possible dig sites within the old Camp Kanangra scout camp at Nords Wharf as they search for the remains of missing teenagers Robyn Hickie and Amanda Robinson, who disappeared during a two-week period in 1979.
The search, using specialist police and an excavator, went throughout Wednesday and will continue on Thursday. The patch of land – less than 9km from where 14-year-old Amanda vanished while walking to her Swansea home on April 21, 1979 – has been identified by Strike Force Arapaima detectives following a painstaking two-year investigation into the disappearances and suspected murders of the two girls. Robyn, 18, vanished from a Belmont North bus stop on April 7, 1979. A fortnight later, Amanda would disappear as she walked home along Lake Rd at Swansea after getting off a bus from a school dance.
Detectives strongly suspect links between the cases and the search of the old Camp Kanangra scout camp follows specific information reported to investigators. The area in question remained a scout camp for decades — including at the time both teenagers vanished — before it was snapped up by developers in 2013.
The current owners have been extremely cooperative with investigators to help identify specific areas of land on the property.
“The information garnered throughout the investigation has led us to investigate this site but I want to stress this is one site out of a number of many and police are continuing to follow strong leads in regards to this investigation,’’ Lake Macquarie crime manager Detective Inspector Steve Benson said outside the scout camp on Wednesday.
Det Insp Benson said the sites were all in and around Lake Macquarie.
It is understood that included more areas needing further investigation within the old scout camp.
The search comes just two days after $1m rewards were announced for information in relation to both cases as senior police confirmed Strike Force Arapaima detectives had “strong lines of inquiry” into the Robinson and Hickie cases.
“[We are] looking for evidence to the disappearances. The specific nature of that I won’t go into because we have got to maintain the integrity of the investigation,’’ Det Insp Benson said.
“But I would also like to take the opportunity to thank those that have come forward since Monday.
“We are reviewing every single piece of information that has come through and we will be in contact with the people.’’
Police cordoned off an area surrounding the southern end of Nords Wharf on Wednesday morning after spending several days there in the past week checking out possible “areas of interest”.
The strike force kicked off a fresh investigation into the suspected murders in early 2019. Together with the two 1979 disappearances, they are also looking into fresh lines of inquiry into the unrelated abduction of Gordana Kotevski at Charlestown in 1994. Robyn was on her way to meet friends at a Belmont pub when she disappeared from the Pacific Highway bus stop near the intersection with Ntaba Rd.
And Amanda was seen getting off a bus at Swansea after catching it home from a school dance at Gateshead. Credible witnesses say they last saw Amanda walking on the northern side of Lake Rd and just a few hundred metres from home.
It is not the first time that police have performed land searches in relation to the disappearances of the two Lake Macquarie girls. Strike Force Fenwick, established in the late 1990s to reinvestigate more than a dozen suspicious disappearances across the Hunter, also searched parts of Lake Macquarie during its investigation.
A coroners inquest in 2001 into the Hickie and Robinson cases, as well as Lake Macquarie woman Leanne Goodall, heard evidence from backpacker killer Ivan Milat.
However, Strike Fore Arapaima detectives have ruled Milat out as a suspect in the Hickie and Robinson investigations. The Newcastle News revealed earlier this month that a woman was able to escape the clutches of an kidnapper at Blacksmiths Beach in January, 1979 – just four months before the Robyn and Hickie disappeared and only a few kilometres from both areas where they were both seen.
The woman also reported her attacker was driving a green Holden Torana, the same colour and make as has been seen in the vicinity of Amanda’s disappearance.


One of the people at the Scout Camp was Warren McCorriston who has been charged with a rape of a 16 year old in Gateshead. A suspect in the Amanda Robinson and Robin Hickie disappearances.
 
It said he was arrested at a government facility in silverwater, does that mean a jail?
So there is a taskforce investigating the disappearance of 3 girls around the Newcastle area in NSW. The first two Amanda Robinson and Robyn Hickie in 1979 and the second Gordana Kotevski in 1994. So the Scout Camp mentioned up above had several later convicted of sexual assaults including those on minors including Warren and his brother David.



Strikeforce Arapaima was set up to investigate the disappearances of several girls from around the area. I think there was also Strikeforce Fenwick in the 1990s. Strikeforce Arapaima seems to be referring McCorriston to other agencies when they find something on him.

"The strike force was set up to investigate the disappearance of university student Leanne Goodall, 20, after leaving Newcastle's Star Hotel in December 1978; dental nurse Robyn Hickie, 18, last seen at a Belmont North bus stop in April 1979; Amanda Robinson, 14, last seen at a Swansea bus stop while walking home from a school dance in April 1979; and Gordana Kotevski, 16, who disappeared while walking home at Charlestown in 1994."

The cases in the 1970s were not investigated thoroughly at the time.

He was a Manager at Daydream Island and Q1 on the Gold Coast.

There is a varying degree of availability of the articles above without a paywall.

He is serving a sentence for offences against 2 women including one former partner. There were also charges in Queensland.
 
Did he own a white Hilux?
Not sure. I was listening to a podcast and there were two people talking one John Abernethy the former NSW Coroner and he didn't think that Gordana was related to Amanda and Robyn.

Gordana went missing in 1994 where as the others were in 1978 and 1979.

I think the Green Torana has been linked to him.
 
Not sure. I was listening to a podcast and there were two people talking one John Abernethy the former NSW Coroner and he didn't think that Gordana was related to Amanda and Robyn.

Gordana went missing in 1994 where as the others were in 1978 and 1979.

I think the Green Torana has been linked to him.
johnymac1 wasnt there a green torana in the Rhianna Barreau case?
 

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