Vanessa Devlin murder 27th June 1988. I was going back along the threads looking for something else and had ignored the talk about the VD murder initially, however some interesting posts below which I'm including with snips raises more questions for me that some of the sleuthers living southside may be able to answer.
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#9 MingMong Reply to Niall for post #1056 Ok, I can tell you this. The girl was found in the house at
1995 Albany Hwy Maddington, which was diagonally opposite what used to be Stokley station. Ok, back to it...I believe a guy was charged for this murder (strangulation if my memory serves me correctly) and I think it may have been classified as a 'domestic' situation at the time. Now I can't even remember the actual year this took place, however, one of the reasons it stuck in my head after all of these years is, we used to ride our horses over there often.
It was a spooky place...a subsequent search last night on my limited reception said lots of things had happened in both this house (built circa 1920) and at the rail crossing beside it. I didn't know any of the rest until last night when I was trying not such a data intensive route to find out the girl, the date, the perpetrator etc. I know I have found this stuff before on the net.
Anyways, when we used to go over there on our horses, there were a heap of young blokes living there rough (like a bogan house). It used to spook me for a reason I couldn't put my finger on, but my friend was always keen to go over there. That was before the girls death though...
01-03-2017, 03:25 AM
#10 janwa Maddington Murders I remember these murders one was in the small house set back on a big block either next to or just past the chiropractors. The other across the hwy set near the road on a big block. I passed it every day on the train. The house eventually got wrecked the land was sold and a new house built with the wreck still there. There was also a body found at some point stuffed down drain.
01-03-2017, 04:16 AM
#14 The Weaver Tilbury was convicted in 1971 for the murder of Lynette Robeson and again in 1989 for the murder of Vanessa Devlin
01-03-2017, 04:59 AM
#22 papertrail Vanessa devlin murder 27 june 88 @ bicton and lynette robeson murdered 8 feb 71 @ serpentine conviction james tilbury for both. @ is location of their residence not murder location. Put 'interview with james tilbury' into google and open worldcat link.
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Do any know what was going on in this house? Was this where VD was murdered? Does anyone know about the heap of young blokes (bogans) that seemed to be hanging around? I couldn't open the podcast interview suggested by papertail but it seems that James Tilbury confessed not long (2 years?) after getting out of jail for a 1971 murder. Is this correct?