Unsolved The Wanda Beach Murders

[Kurve]

Of interest
- Christopher Wilder - The Beauty Queen Killer
- Derek Percy

 

[BFew]

The article in my last post in here today promotes the below new podcast about Wanda Beach Murders suspect, Christopher Wilder.

There's also a website for it

catchingevil.com | serial killer podcast

Catching Evil: Uncover the gripping tale of a charismatic Australian-born serial killer whose deadly charm sparked the biggest manhunt in US history. This true-crime podcast investigates linked cold cases across continents, revealing haunting survivor stories, chilling confessions, and explosive...

www.catchingevil.com

 

[brendan299]

How are they going to rule Ivan Milat out based on DNA, when Police are reported to have lost the semen DNA in the Wanda murders case, and there is only trace DNA from Christine's shorts that even current DNA testing advances maybe can't be successfully used.

When did Police last re-test the clothing, and when do they plan to do it again?

Cannot believe this.

The 1 piece of evidence that could bring this case to a close and it just gets "lost" by Police.

 

[johnymac1]

This is an age regression representation of Christopher Wilder at the time of the WB murders

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Given Wilder is also a suspect in 2 Sydney murders in Late January and early February 1966 - make it difficult for me to link him to the Beaumont kidnappings. Timing - Adelaide to Sydney , and age profile would be 2 areas I would dismiss him on

1. On Saturday, 29 January 1966, a 56-year old cleaning lady named Wilhelmina Kruger was killed in the Piccadilly Centre, on Crown Street in Wollongong.[24] Her bloodied body was discovered around 5:45 am at the foot of the basement-level stairs by a butcher who had arrived for work.[25][26] Having been first assaulted three floors above, probably around 4:30 am, she had been brutally dragged down the escalators and stairs. She was then strangled, stabbed, mutilated, and was found naked from the chest down. Police also found cigarette burns in her clothing,[27] and blond hair was found at the scene. In the time prior to the murder, Kruger had become nervous that someone was watching her, and had been driven to work by her partner.[17] Similarly, the lights in the car-park within the Centre had shown recent signs of tampering, and had been tampered with again on the morning of the murder. Considered one of the most brutal attacks in the history of the state,[17] the case remains unsolved.[28][29] Police believed that the murder might have been the work of the Wanda Beach killer, but would not say why.[30]
2. Around midnight on Wednesday, 16 February 1966, a 27-year old shop assistant and prostitute from Bondi named Anna Toskayoa Dowlingkoa went missing after leaving a nightclub in Kings Cross.[17] Ten days later, at around 5:30 pm on 26 February, her semi-naked, strangled, stabbed, and mutilated body was found by a truck driver, who had stopped at the side of Old Illawarra Road in Menai to change a tyre.[31] Most of her clothes and belongings were missing, and drag evidence showed that her body had been moved to a more visible location around 3–4 days prior to discovery.[17] Police immediately linked her brutal "Jack the Ripper-like murder" with that of Kruger,[31] and investigators from that crime were called in to assist. They believed that the murder might have been the work of the Wanda Beach killer,[32] primarily based on circumstantial evidence and MO similarities.

Wilder for Me! This post from six years ago.
He's the Best Fit for the crime

 

[BFew]

The article I posted in here this morning has been updated with some new developments.

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/investigators-name-beauty-queen-killer-christopher-wilder-as-wanda-beach-murderer/news-story/848a75bf9abacb1e0bd7d32202ae0aae

'Just minutes after news.com.au revealed the true identity of Sydney’s notorious Wanda Beach killer, a Sydney woman came forward with a disturbing new lead.'

'January 19, 2026 - 1:52PM'
...
Investigator Andy Byrne said the woman contacted the podcast’s tip line to reveal her mother, who was 15-years-old at the time of the Wanda Beach killings in 1965, was pestered at the Top Ryde shopping centre on several occasions by Wilder, who was 19 at the time. The mall was just a five minute drive from Wilder’s family home in East Ryde.“He was constantly trying to get her to come with him to Wanda Beach,” the woman’s daughter revealed. She said staff at the Grace Bros department store, where Wilder may have been working as a casual in the run up to Christmas just three weeks before the teenage girl were murdered, found Wilder’s “little black book” which was filled with girls names.

Later, in America where he moved to in order to avoid questioning about Wanda Beach, he was known to keep meticulous notes of all the young girls he approached and photographed, including their ages, names and measurements.
...'

 

[Ostins_Park]

Wilder looks very good for this one but the only issue I have, is the identikit doesn't look anything like him.

 

[brendan299]

Wilder when he was younger.

Certainly appears as the surfy type..

 

[Ostins_Park]

 

[Ostins_Park]

One of the confusing things about this case is that the identikit doesn't really match the surfie description. I guess identikits weren't that good in the 60s.

Meanwhile the identikit does look like both Milat (as recently documented) but also, indirectly, Percy... the Wanda identikit looks like the Simon Brook identikit... (Percy)