She was wearing $100,000 worth of diamonds and carrying $6,000 cash. She disappeared on September 16, 1977, apparently on her way to see police officers who were standing over her massage parlours. Norma, aka Simone Vogel, moved from Sydney to Brisbane in the 1960s, where she established massage parlours known as "rubs and tubs".
Mr Keen, a Bowen hotel licensee, was seen drinking with a man wearing his hair in a ponytail and exhibiting feminine mannerisms in a bar. His body was found by a room service attendant on August 14, 1976. Rex, 46, was bludgeoned and stabbed in a room at Brisbane's upmarket Lennon's Plaza Hotel. The only person against whom there was enough evidence to send to trial, was Wayne Robert Hilton, but he died in a 1986 car crash. Last year, Queensland coroner Michael Barnes found the women were more than likely picked up hitch-hiking by a notorious group of men allegedly known in the area for kidnapping and raping women. Two coronial inquests failed to lead to a prosecution. Their skulls were bashed in and their bones tangled in cord from a venetian blind. Murdered Sydney nurses Lorraine Wilson and Wendy Evans. Their skeletal remains were found two years later in a paddock in bush country off Murphy's Creek Road, an old bypass to Toowoomba, about 100 kilometres from Brisbane. The Sydney trainee nurses headed to Queensland for a brief holiday in September 1974 but were raped, bashed and left for dead. Lorraine Ruth Wilson and Wendy Joy Evans, 1974 This week police searched two properties 150 kilometres away at Warwick, south-west of Brisbane, and were confident they uncovered some clues to the abduction and murder of the three, which were connected with the underworld. It had been suggested Barbara was murdered because she was ready to publicly name McCulkin over his supposed involvement in the Whisky Au Go Go nightclub fire the previous year.įifteen people died in the fire in what was at the time Australia's largest mass murder. ( Supplied: Queensland Police Service)īarbara was the estranged wife of a debt collector, Billy McCulkin, who had criminal connections. Their bodies were never found and police believe they were murdered.īarbara McCulkin and her daughters disappeared in 1974. Barbara, Vicki, and Leanne McCulkin 1974īarbara, 34, and daughters Vicki, 13, and Leanne, 11, disappeared from their home in the inner-Brisbane suburb of Highgate Hill on the night of January 16, 1974. She had been shot twice in the head with a. On November 15, 1972, her body was found in a shallow grave under a bridge on the Flinders Highway, approximately 80 kilometres west of Charters Towers, south-west of Townsville. Robin, 19, left Melbourne with friend Anita Cunningham for a hitch-hiking holiday to visit her mother in Bowen, south of Townsville. The case was initially treated as a disappearance, and later upgraded to a murder investigation. They found Marilyn's bicycle and school port by the side of the road but her body was never found. Her brothers left home 10 minutes later, following the same route. The 14-year-old girl was abducted from Eimeo, near Mackay, on March 21, 1972, while riding her bicycle through cane fields near her home to catch a school bus. Marilyn Wallman's disappearance has baffled north Queensland police for more than 40 years.
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