Tynong North Serial Killer
Catherine Headland. I wrote about the unsolved Australian crime known as the Tynong North Killings which was published online and in the local newspaper Berwick Leader. Sock Template Illustrator For Mac. I spoke to the childhood best friend of one of the victims Catherine Headland. Reading about this series of murders is as shocking now as it would’ve been in 1980 when the skeletal remains of Catherine, 14, were found along with those of two other victims — Ann-Marie Sargent, 18, and Bertha Miller, 75 — at a secluded bush track off Brew Rd, Tynong North.
The Frankston and Tynong North Serial Killer. The Frankston serial killer. ©2017 Casefile True Crime Podcast. Cold case detectives launch a fresh hunt for serial killer The Age John Silvester 7 hours ago (as at 07:30 AEDT 21 October 2017) 'By the time Homicide arrived at the unmade road it was already a cold trail - but now, 37 years later, police have a million reasons to believe they may catch a serial killer.
There were also the murders of two other women from Frankston (a south-east bayside suburb of Melbourne) and another woman whose remains were found in Tynong North. The killings are believed by many to be by the same killer. The memorial plaque to Catherine Headland at Akoonah Park, Berwick, Victoria. Catherine’s best friend Cheryl Goldsworthy is making another plea for anyone with information to tell the police. Time is ticking to solve this case.
Victoria Police have had a prime suspect for years, there’s just not enough evidence to charge the man. This man is in his 80s now, if he is still alive. Anyone with information should phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Cold case detectives launch a fresh hunt for serial killer The Age John Silvester 7 hours ago (as at 07:30 AEDT 21 October 2017) ‘By the time Homicide arrived at the unmade road it was already a cold trail - but now, 37 years later, police have a million reasons to believe they may catch a serial killer suspected of murdering six women taken from Melbourne streets. It is perhaps Victoria's most baffling murder mystery - six females, aged from 14 to 73, all grabbed seemingly at random in an 18-month period and dumped in scrub.
All were on foot when abducted from or near main roads - all but one in broad daylight. In each case experts could not establish a cause of death and personal items had been removed from the victims, either to conceal identity or to be kept as trophies by the killer. By the time the first body was found at Tynong North, on December 6, 1980, the killer had struck five times – if, that is, there was only one murderer. There were several homicide investigations, followed by a taskforce probe, Canadian and US crime profile examinations and two criminal intelligence reviews.
More than 2000 people were interviewed, 11,400 pages of notes taken and detailed coronial inquests held. But no charges were laid. Now police will offer a $1 million reward for information they hope will lead to the person or persons responsible for the murders of two women whose bodies were found in Frankston and four found in Tynong North. There were several homicide investigations, followed by a taskforce probe, Canadian and US crime profile examinations and two criminal intelligence reviews. More than 2000 people were interviewed, 11,400 pages of notes taken and detailed coronial inquests held. But no charges were laid. Now police will offer a $1 million reward for information they hope will lead to the person or persons responsible for the murders of two women whose bodies were found in Frankston and four found in Tynong North.‘ Read more.