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Murder on Easey Street
Murder on Easey Street: Melbournes Most Notorious Cold Case | Helen Thomas
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1977, Collingwood. Two young women are brutally murdered. The killer has never been found. What happened in the house on Easey Street? On a warm night in January, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were savagely murdered in their house on Easey Street, Collingwood stabbed multiple times while Suzannes sixteen-month-old baby slept in his cot. Although police established a list of more than 100 persons of interest, the case became one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in Melbourne. Journalist Helen Thomas was a cub reporter at The Age when the murders were committed and saw how deeply they affected the city. Now, forty-two years on, she has re-examined the cold case chasing down new leads and talking to members of the Armstrong and Bartlett families, the womens neighbours on Easey Street, detectives and journalists. What emerges is a portrait of a crime rife with ambiguities and contradictions, which took place at a fascinating time in the citys history when the countercultural bohemia of Helen Garners Monkey Grip brushed up against the grit of the underworld in one of Melbournes most notorious suburbs. Why has the Easey Street murderer never been found, despite the million-dollar reward for information leading to an arrest? Did the women know their killer, or were their deaths due to a random, frenzied attack? Could the murderer have killed again? This gripping account addresses these questions and more as it sheds new light on one of Australias most disturbing and compelling criminal mysteries. An overdue examination of the Easey Street murders that adds tantalising new information to known and forgotten facts. Andrew Rule, journalist and co-author of Underbelly Helen Thomas has been a journalist for more than forty years. In 2005, Thomas spent months researching the Easey Street murders for Radio Nationals Background Briefing, shedding new light on the investigation. She is the manager of ABC News Radio and author of five books, including Moods: The Peter Moody Saga (2016).
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Madison91
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Mehso-so

This is a good book, I‘m just not into non fiction especially unsolved true crime. I NEED ANSWERS! And it‘s just so sad when it‘s true. But I did buy it thinking I‘d give it another go as, as strange as it is I still like watching true crime 🤷🏽‍♀️ and I love Australian set books. I‘ll stick to my fictions where the bad guy is a nice little plot twist in the second last chapter and there are no loose ends 😂

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Nicki_K
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Pickpick

The still unsolved murders of 2 housemates in 1977 in Easey Street Collingwood. The saddest part of this case is that one of the women had a baby son who was in the house at the time of these brutal horrific murders. This book details the lives of the victims, the police investigations at the time, the alleged suspects and murders that forever changed Easey Street Collingwood. A well researched insight into this case and the lives of the victims.

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