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Hey , hey , crime Connoisseurs , I'm your

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host , grace D . I hope you

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all enjoyed the bonus case this weekend and

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that everyone had a lovely Father's Day . Today's

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case is one that our US listeners

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may or may not be familiar with

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, but our Aussie Crime Connoisseurs

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are sure to know exactly which case I'm

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talking about in just a few details

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. Our case today is

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taking us all the way to Australia

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For our first case down

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under . We're going to cover one of Australia's

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oldest and most shocking cold

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cases , going back to 1965

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, a time when people still kept

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their doors unlocked and felt safe . Tragedy

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would soon strike , altering

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the sense of safety . Two

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young women head to the beach with

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young siblings to spend the day . Sadly

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, the two teens would head off by themselves

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to never be seen again

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, sparking one of the most infamous

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murder mysteries in Australian history

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. Who was responsible

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for this tragedy ? With

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the case remaining unsolved for nearly

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six decades , we're left

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with questions about what really happened

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on that fateful day in 1965

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. This is the case of

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Mary Ann Schmidt and Christine

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Sherrick , the Wanda Beach

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Murders . Elizabeth

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and Helmut Schmidt had moved to Australia

3:02

from Germany in 1958

3:04

with their children Helmut Jr

3:06

, marianne , hans

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, peter , trixie

3:11

, norbert and

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another on the way . After

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arriving in Australia , the Schmidt

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family lived in a migrant hostel

3:20

in Unadera , new

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South Wales , before settling

3:25

in Tamora In 1963

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, helmut moved the family

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to West Ryde , a suburb

3:33

of Sydney , after being diagnosed

3:35

with Hodgkin's lymphoma . Helmut

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passed away the following year , leaving

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Elizabeth to care for the seven children

3:43

alone . After

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moving to West Ryde , marianne

3:49

developed a close friendship with Christine

3:51

Sherrick , a young girl the same

3:53

age as her who lived next door with

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her grandparents , jim and Jeanette

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Tague . Six

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months after her husband's passing , elizabeth

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herself was sick in the hospital , leaving

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Marianne and Helmut Jr in

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charge of the rest of the kids . On

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Saturday , january 9th , mary

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Ann and Christine asked Elizabeth

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, who was still in the hospital , if

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they could take the younger children to

4:20

Cronulla the next day , and

4:22

were given permission . However

4:24

, rain prevented them from making the trip

4:26

. Given permission , however , rain prevented them from making the trip . On January

4:28

11 , 1965 , the

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two teenage girls set off for

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a day at the beach with the kids . Around

4:36

8 am , marianne , christine

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and the kiddos headed out with their

4:46

bags and a picnic . They went

4:49

down the coast to Cronulla by train . Around two

4:51

hours away , holmett

4:53

Jr and Hans opted out of going to the beach and instead stayed home to clean . The girls arrived

4:56

at Cronulla with Peter , trixie

4:58

, wolfgang and Norbert , but

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the beach was closed because of strong winds

5:03

. The

5:09

group then walked down to the southern end of the beach and took shelter among the rocks . Eight-year-old

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Wolfgang still wanted to swim

5:13

, so Marianne went with him to

5:15

the shallow part of the surf , away from

5:17

the rocks . After

5:20

they returned to the group , they had a picnic

5:22

At some point . During this

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time , christine left the others and

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went off by herself . When

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Christine returned to the group , they decided

5:31

to go for a walk into the sandhills behind

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Wanda Beach . Before

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walking into the dunes , the girls

5:39

hid their bags on the beach to lighten

5:41

their load . Soon the

5:43

wind was too strong . Soon the wind was too strong

5:45

, and around 1 pm the group reached

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a point around 400

5:49

meters or 430

5:52

yards , beyond the Wanda

5:54

Surf Club . They

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stopped to take shelter behind a sandhill . As the younger

6:03

children complained about the conditions , mary

6:09

Ann and Christine decided that they would go back to get their

6:11

bags before going home . Marianne

6:13

told her younger siblings that she and Christine would return to the rocky area at the south end of

6:15

the beach where they had hidden their bags , then return

6:18

to get the children and head home . However

6:21

, the girls continued into the sand

6:23

hills . When Peter noticed

6:26

, he called out to them that they

6:28

were going the wrong way , but they

6:30

just laughed at him and walked on . It

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would be the last time the two friends

6:35

were seen . Four

6:37

hours went by but they didn't

6:40

return . By 5 pm

6:42

Peter decided that they should go home

6:44

without Christine and Marianne . The

6:47

kids found the bags untouched

6:49

on the beach and caught the last train

6:52

arriving home around 8 pm

6:54

. Confused

6:56

and concerned , hans went to see

6:58

his mother in the hospital . In

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an article with thatslifecomau

7:04

, hans told his mom quote

7:06

the girls didn't come back

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from the beach end quote . He

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said quote . A huge sadness

7:14

came over her . They're gone

7:16

, she cried . End quote . Marianne

7:19

and Christine were reported missing at

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8.30 pm by Christine's grandmother

7:24

. The

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next morning , on Tuesday , january

7:28

12th , peter Smith took

7:31

his young nephews for a walk through

7:33

the Wanda Beach Sandhills . Some

7:36

distance north of the Wanda Surf Club

7:38

, he discovered what appeared to be a

7:40

store mannequin buried face

7:42

down in the sand . It

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wasn't until he brushed away the sand from the head that he realized it was a body . He scooped

7:51

up his nephews and ran to the nearest surf

7:54

club where the police were called . Police

7:57

arrived and found the body of Mary

8:00

Ann Schmidt . When

8:02

members of the New South Wales Police

8:05

arrived , they encountered the horrific

8:07

scene . While investigating

8:10

, someone noticed a foot belonging

8:12

to a second body . It

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was then discovered that Christine Sherrick

8:17

had been buried with Marianne . When

8:21

the murder scene was examined , marianne

8:23

was found lying on her right side

8:26

with her left leg bent . Christine

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was face down , her head against

8:31

the sole of her friend's left foot . Both

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of them had scratch marks on their faces

8:38

From a nearly

8:40

40-yard-long bloody drag mark

8:42

in the sand leading to the scene . Police

8:45

determined that Christine had fled

8:47

, possibly while Marianne was

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dying , only to have been caught

8:51

incapacitated and

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dragged back to the body of her friend . The

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bodies were partially clothed and

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the girls were brutally attacked , and

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at the time it was believed they were sexually

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assaulted . Bloodstains

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on nearby scrub and recently

9:09

made car tracks were discovered

9:11

leading from where the bodies were found

9:14

. The bodies were

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moved to the Sutherland District Hospital

9:18

, where a relative later identified

9:20

them . Both

9:23

girls had been viciously attacked

9:25

, beaten , stabbed multiple

9:27

times and left exposed to

9:29

the elements . The

9:31

exact time of death was not determined

9:34

, but it was believed that they were

9:36

killed shortly after leaving the younger

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children . An

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intensive search was launched to find

9:45

the murder weapons a long

9:47

knife and some sort of blunt

9:49

instrument but they were never found

9:51

. Tons

9:53

of sand from around the murder scene

9:55

were sifted through and various

9:57

items were found , including

9:59

a blood-stained knife blade , but

10:02

police were unable to link it to

10:04

the murders Trigger

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warning the topic of sexual assault

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. Is it to the murders Trigger warning ? The topic

10:11

of sexual assault is about to be

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covered . Christine's skull had been fractured

10:15

by a blow to the back of the head and

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she had been stabbed six times . Marianne's

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throat had been deeply slashed and she had been stabbed

10:26

14 times

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, had been deeply

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slashed and she had been stabbed 14 times . Marianne's bathing suit

10:33

had been cut and pulled up over her breasts and the killer attempted to rape

10:35

Marianne and Christine . Semen

10:38

was found on both girls . However

10:41

, the autopsy showed that their

10:43

hymens were intact . Marianne's

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brother , hans , had viewed photos

10:49

of the body and said , quote she'd

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been stabbed 25 to

10:54

30 times . She'd

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almost been decapitated because

10:58

her throat had been cut so viciously

11:00

. At her funeral , marianne

11:03

was dressed in a high neck dress , but

11:05

you could still see the slash marks above

11:07

the collar . That's how vicious

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it was . End quote . Marianne

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and Christine's funerals were held

11:16

on January 20 , 1965

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. During

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Christine's absence , one of Marianne's

11:24

little brothers , wolfgang , noticed

11:26

a teenage boy hunting crabs . Later

11:30

he claimed to have seen the same boy

11:32

two more times , once

11:34

in the company of the girls and

11:37

again sometime much later , but

11:39

walking alone . There

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has been doubt about his description of

11:44

this person , as Wolfgang's testimony

11:46

over time variously suggested

11:49

that he had had a homemade

11:51

spear gun , a fishing knife

11:53

or both . The

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last official sighting of the girls was

11:58

around 12.45 pm by

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local fireman Dennis Dostein

12:03

, who was walking in the area with

12:05

his son and saw the girls walking

12:07

about 730 meters

12:09

north of the surf club . Dostin

12:13

told police they seemed to be hurrying

12:15

and one of the girls often looked

12:18

behind her as if they were

12:20

being followed . He

12:22

did not see anybody else , though

12:24

A number of people

12:26

were seen in the area who had

12:28

never been identified and never

12:30

came forward . The

12:34

autopsy for Christine found

12:36

a blood alcohol content of

12:38

0.015 , but

12:41

alcohol was not found . In Marianne's

12:43

autopsy . It

12:46

was also discovered that Christine

12:48

had consumed food cabbage

12:50

and celery , possibly a

12:52

Chico roll that differed

12:54

from the rest of the group . It

12:57

is suspected that this occurred while

12:59

she was alone . Police

13:02

launched one of the largest manhunts

13:05

in Australian history , questioning

13:07

numerous individuals and sifting

13:09

through countless leads . Witnesses

13:12

reported seeing the girls walking

13:14

with a man in his mid-20s , though

13:17

descriptions varied . Another

13:19

witness saw a man running from the dunes

13:22

around the estimated time of the murders

13:24

. The

14:57

estimated time of the murders In February 1965

15:00

, a 10,000 pound reward was set and later increased to 20,000 pounds

15:02

. Several suspects emerged over the years , but no

15:04

charges were ever filed . One

15:07

year later , on January 26

15:09

, 1966 , the

15:12

three Beaumont siblings , jane

15:14

, arna and Grant

15:16

, disappeared from Glen

15:18

Egg Beach in Adelaide . Both

15:22

cases captured the attention of

15:24

the nation , which became consumed

15:27

by the search for their assailants . Both

15:30

cases remain unsolved to

15:32

this day . Initially

15:35

, police encountered interest in both

15:37

cases , using media appearances

15:40

to call for information from

15:42

the public . Detective

15:44

Inspector Haynes , who led the investigation

15:47

into the Wanda Beach murders , issued

15:50

such an appeal in his interview with

15:52

Ian Ross on National Network

15:55

News in January 1965

15:58

.

16:00

We have received information from possibly

16:03

a thousand people . We

16:05

have interviewed between five and

16:07

six hundred people personally and

16:09

obtained particulars five

16:13

and six hundred people personally and obtained particulars In this state as well as in other

16:15

states . Many suspects who could be considered to have

16:17

committed this crime have

16:19

been interviewed and their movements checked

16:21

.

16:23

What would you consider your most important lead

16:25

in the investigation so far ?

16:27

The most important and possibly

16:29

the outstanding thing is the description

16:32

of the suspect who

16:34

was last seen in

16:37

the company of the girls whilst they were

16:39

still alive . That is Wolfgang

16:41

Smith , the

16:44

brother of one of the deceased

16:46

girls . He describes a

16:48

lad about 16 years of age

16:50

whom he saw disappearing in

16:53

the sand dunes with his sister

16:55

and the other girl about

16:57

1.30 on the fateful day .

17:00

Now , even though Wolfgang is a very young boy he's

17:02

only seven years old you still feel that

17:04

you could place a fair amount of importance on

17:06

what he's told you .

17:08

Yes , when we first

17:10

received his testimony , being so

17:12

young , we were loathe to

17:14

accept it , but we have

17:16

checked and rechecked his information

17:18

During the inquiry

17:21

. Every piece of information we have

17:23

received has tended to confirm

17:25

and corroborate his story and

17:28

we now feel that he can be relied

17:30

upon and his testimony is

17:33

acceptable .

17:35

Well now , sir , we might be able to perhaps move down

17:37

to the Wonder Beach scene and take up the

17:39

story there . Yes , we will . Detective

17:47

Inspector Haynes , during

17:50

your investigations , have you been quite

17:52

happy with the support the public has given you

17:54

in coming forward with information ?

17:56

We have been amazed and overwhelmed at the

17:58

response the public have made . Every

18:01

piece of information , however seemingly

18:03

unimportant , has been investigated

18:07

. Many suspects as a result of

18:09

that have been questioned and we

18:11

feel that by

18:13

the continued response of the people

18:15

we will be able to put our finger on

18:17

the man who has committed this crime .

18:19

Do you think that there are still some people who may

18:21

have been here on the beach or who may otherwise

18:24

be able to help , who have not yet come forward ?

18:26

I feel very definitely only

18:29

as late as yesterday . We

18:31

have people coming who

18:33

have previously known something

18:35

but have not thought it important by

18:37

reason of the publicity and the interest

18:40

that has been created . They have come forward

18:42

and we have received much information

18:44

which will help us to form

18:48

a pattern of the people who are on the beach

18:50

and what may have happened on that fateful day

18:52

.

18:53

Public interest in these cases was

18:56

often so intense that it became

18:58

the news . In February

19:00

1966 , nine

19:02

News reported on the overwhelming

19:05

turnout of volunteers to

19:07

assist police in combing the beach

19:09

for clues to help find the Beaumont

19:11

children . However

19:13

, the Wanda Beach and Beaumont cases

19:16

, like several other equally

19:18

notorious crimes committed during the 60s

19:20

, are cited as the moment

19:23

when Australia lost its innocence

19:25

. In

19:27

April 1966 , the

19:30

coroner handed down his report . By

19:33

then , police had interviewed roughly 7,000

19:36

people , making it the most

19:38

extensive investigation in Australian

19:40

history . Despite this

19:43

, the murders quickly became

19:45

a cold case and none

19:47

of the three main suspects fit

19:49

the description of the surfer youth

19:51

who has never been identified

19:54

. In

19:56

March 1967

19:58

, police believed they were

20:00

close to arresting a man in connection

20:02

with the murders of Marianne and

20:04

Christine and the attacks on

20:06

several women at Wanda Beach . On

20:09

several women at Wanda Beach , fresh information

20:11

was given to them by a woman named

20:14

Brenda Galvin who

20:21

was attacked on March 16th at the beach , and by the man who ran

20:23

to her assistance , which helped to narrow the search for the killer . Detectives

20:26

said that they had been overwhelmed

20:28

by telephone calls from people

20:31

claiming to know or have seen

20:33

the killer , and each

20:35

one was being investigated . A

20:38

massive police hunt was underway

20:40

for an old white car and

20:43

the man seen driving away in it

20:45

after the latest beach attack

20:47

beach

20:54

attack . Both their descriptions fit the sketch made by police using details

20:56

obtained from other women who had been attacked

20:58

in the beach area . Police were confident that the man

21:01

was also the killer of Christine

21:03

Sherrick and Marianne Schmidt . In 1981

21:07

, the Wanda Beach murders were again

21:10

the subject of media interest

21:12

when reporter Harry Potter

21:14

yes , my fellow Potterheads

21:16

, that is his real name , but

21:19

not our beloved Harry Potter's

21:33

broadcast did not present any new evidence , but his delivery style was indicative of recent

21:35

developments in news broadcasting , particularly

21:37

in crime reporting . Compared

21:40

to Ian Ross , potter frequently

21:42

uses subjective , even sensational

21:45

, language . Marianne

21:47

and Christine were described as quote

21:49

pretty unpopular end quote , and

21:52

Wanda Beach Sand Dunes as

21:55

a quote playground for deviants

21:57

end quote . The

21:59

report also began by warning

22:02

young women to quote be on

22:04

their guard end quote . In

22:07

the interview we learned that during

22:09

the investigation , police interviewed

22:12

more than 16,000 people

22:14

up to this point , including roughly

22:16

5,000 suspects . It's

22:27

also revealed that at least five of the 5,000 suspects admitted to the murders of Marianne

22:29

and Christine . However , police were able to quickly determine

22:32

those to be false confessions

22:34

due to the lack of information

22:36

they were able to provide that

22:38

only the real killer and the police

22:40

knew to be true . The

22:44

case was reopened in 2000

22:46

, and in February 2012

22:48

, the New South Wales Police

22:51

Forces Cold Case Unit announced

22:53

that a weak male DNA

22:55

sample had been extracted

22:58

from a pair of white shorts worn

23:00

by Christine . While

23:03

admitting that current technology was

23:05

unable to provide more information

23:07

, police were confident that future

23:10

advances would offer more

23:12

support . Despite

23:15

periodic reviews and advances

23:17

in forensic science , the case

23:19

remains unsolved . In

23:21

2012 , police announced

23:24

that they were re-examining DNA

23:26

evidence in hopes of finding new

23:28

leads . In July

23:30

2014 , police

23:32

said that a semen sample

23:34

taken from Marianne's body had

23:37

been lost and could not be located

23:39

, despite an extensive search

23:41

. Regardless

23:44

of exhaustive efforts , the case

23:47

faced significant obstacles . The

23:49

crime scene was contaminated by

23:52

the elements and by people who

23:54

showed up before it was secured . Conflicting

23:57

witness testimonies and limited

23:59

forensic technology at the time

24:01

also hindered the investigation

24:04

. Recent

24:06

advances in DNA technology

24:08

have given investigators new

24:10

tools to re-examine the evidence , but

24:13

the case remains unsolved . Investigators

24:17

have three men they believe

24:19

could all be the man responsible

24:21

for the murders of Christine and

24:23

Marianne . Former

24:26

detective Sec Johnson , who

24:28

had investigated the murders , was

24:31

given a painting in 1975

24:33

by Alan Bassett . Bassett

24:36

had been imprisoned for the brutal rape

24:38

and murder of Carolyn Orfin

24:40

in Wollongong on

24:42

June 11 , 1966

24:45

. Bassett's painting

24:47

, titled A Bloody , awful Thing

24:49

, showed an abstract landscape

24:52

. Johnson believed

24:54

the painting showed blood trails , a

24:56

broken knife blade and

24:58

the body of a victim and became

25:00

convinced that Bassett was the Wanda

25:03

Beach killer . He

25:05

also became convinced that the painting showed

25:07

a scene from the murders that only

25:09

the killer would know , as well

25:11

as clues to the also unsolved

25:14

murders of Wilhelmina Kruger

25:16

and Anna Dallin-Koa

25:18

. Despite the

25:20

doubt and skepticism of other detectives

25:23

, johnson wrote a book about

25:25

the case . However , before

25:28

it could be published he was killed

25:30

in an accident . While

25:32

retaining professional respect for Johnson

25:35

, other detectives expressed

25:37

that he was wrong in his belief . However

25:40

, one person Johnson convinced

25:42

was Bill Jenkins , a

25:44

crime reporter for Daily Mirror , who

25:47

repeated Johnson's claims in

25:49

his ghost-written memoirs as

25:51

crime goes by . In

25:54

a chapter devoted to the Wanda Beach

25:56

murders , most of which is essentially

25:58

a repeat of what he had written in

26:00

his earlier book , crime Reporter Jenkins

26:03

mentions Bassett and his painting

26:05

. Bassett

26:07

, who had been released from prison in 1995

26:11

, started proceedings for defamation

26:13

in the Supreme Court of New

26:15

South Wales . The publisher

26:18

pleaded defenses of justification

26:20

, meaning Bassett's being

26:22

a convicted murderer , and

26:24

the proceedings never went further . Since

26:28

his release , bassett has voluntarily

26:30

given a DNA sample to clear his

26:32

name , but whether or not he

26:34

has been eliminated as a suspect in

26:36

the Wanda Beach murders has yet to

26:39

be publicized . A

26:41

second suspect is a serial

26:43

killer , christopher Wilder . Two

26:46

years before the murders , wilder

26:49

had been convicted of a gang rape on

26:51

a Sydney beach , which led police

26:53

to include him as a suspect . Wilder

26:57

had immigrated to the United States in

26:59

1969 . However

27:01

, while visiting his parents in Australia in

27:03

1982 , he

27:05

was charged with sexual offenses

27:07

against two 15-year-old

27:10

girls whom he had forced to

27:12

pose nude . Wilder

27:14

fled back to the US and

27:16

in the first half of 1984

27:19

, he committed eight murders

27:21

and attempted several more . Versions

27:25

of what happened next vary , but

27:27

on April 13 , 1984

27:30

, state troopers in New Hampshire

27:32

spotted Wilder's car at

27:34

a service station and confronted him

27:36

. It's said

27:38

that one of the troopers grabbed Wilder

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from behind and in the scuffle , wilder's

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weapon discharged , firing

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a bullet that passed through his body

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and into that of the trooper

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, seriously injuring them both . It's

27:53

then said that Wilder fired another

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bullet into his own chest , ending

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his life and his rampage of murder

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across America . The

28:02

trooper recovered and eventually returned

28:04

to his post . A

28:06

third suspect not well publicized

28:09

until 1998 , is

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Derek Percy , who had been

28:13

in prison since 1969

28:15

for the murder of a child on a

28:17

beach in Victoria . Percy

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was considered too dangerous to be

28:23

released and the prime suspect

28:25

for several other murders of children

28:27

in Melbourne and Sydney . Percy

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died in 2013 from

28:33

cancer . He was considered

28:35

a leading suspect in the Wanda Beach

28:37

murders by police . While

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Percy can be linked to Cronulla on

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the date of the murders , no

28:45

other links have been found . It

28:48

was hoped that he would make confessions on

28:50

his deathbed , but sadly those never

28:52

came . Elizabeth

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Schmidt died from stomach cancer

28:57

in 2009 , but she always

28:59

held out hope that her daughter's killer

29:02

would be found . Despite

29:05

the time that has passed , hans

29:07

Schmidt still believes the person who

29:09

killed Marianne and Christine can be

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found and , if still alive

29:13

, be punished . He

29:16

believes more than one person knows

29:18

what happened to the girls and if

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pictures of their injuries were

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finally released , those people

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may be compelled to come forward with

29:26

information , hans

29:29

told the Sydney Morning Herald . Quote

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I believe now , as

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I always have , that if the public

29:37

was shown pictures of the girls and

29:39

the horrific way they were killed , then

29:41

this case might be solved . End

29:44

quote . The

29:47

Wanda Beach murders continue

29:49

to resonate in Australia's cultural

29:52

memory , symbolizing the terror

29:54

and tragedy of unsolved crimes

29:56

. The case has been the subject

29:59

of numerous books , documentaries

30:01

and media investigations , reflecting

30:04

society's enduring fascination

30:06

and the ongoing quest for justice

30:09

for Marianne Schmidt and Christine

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Sherrick . The

30:13

Wanda Beach murders remain one of

30:15

Australia's most perplexing and

30:17

tragic unsolved cases . Despite

30:20

extensive investigations and

30:22

numerous suspects , the brutal

30:25

killings of Marianne Schmidt and

30:27

Christine Sherrick continue to

30:29

haunt the nation . Advances

30:33

in forensic technology offer

30:35

some hope for resolution , but

30:37

until then , the mystery of

30:39

Wanda Beach remains , reminding

30:42

us of the fragility of life and

30:44

the enduring quest of justice . And

30:51

the enduring quest of justice . The Wanda Beach murders are a chilling reminder , the dark mysteries

30:53

that sometimes elude resolution . While

30:57

advancements in forensic science offer

30:59

hope , the answers to what happened

31:01

to Marianne Schmidt and Christine

31:03

Sherrick on that day in 1965

31:06

remain elusive . Marianne

31:10

and Christine's memories live on , urging

31:16

us to seek justice and closure for the families . Will this case ever

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be solved or will it remain

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shrouded in darkness forever ? Only

31:24

time will tell , and that's

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the case of Marianne Schmidt

31:28

and Christine Sherrick , also

31:31

known as the Wanda Beach Murders . Thank

31:34

you for joining me . If you enjoyed

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31:56

, keep it classy , connoisseurs , and

31:58

I'll catch you on the next case . Thank

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you , you .