Might grab a copy of yesterday's Age.Article by John Silvester
Tales of the sting: The traps cops set to nab their targets
Tales of the sting: The traps cops set to nab their targets
From bugging the collar of a crim’s little pooch to dressing up as shrubbery, there have been some ingenious and outlandish sting operations.www.theage.com.au
May be behind a paywall. Posting it here for those who subscribe
Started thread for Julie in light of new article..
Oct 11 2024
''Following the arrest last month of a man over the 1977 murders of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett in their home in Easey Street, Collingwood, Detective Senior Sergeant Tony Combridge, of the Missing Persons Squad, said those with knowledge of what happened to Julie had lived with the secret for almost five decades and “now is the time to do the right thing and come forward”.
Easey Street breakthrough raises hopes in another cold case murder mystery
Julie Garciacelay was 19 when she vanished, presumed murdered, from her bloodied apartment in 1975. Her 92-year-old mother hopes to get answers before she dies.www.smh.com.au
Oct; 11, '24 by Wendy Tuohy rbbm
Julie Garciacelay. A coroner found in 2018 that the teen was murdered by persons unknown.
'Garciacelay hasn’t been seen since July 1975 when blood and slashed underwear were found in her North Melbourne flat.Easey Street breakthrough raises hopes in another cold case murder mystery
Julie Garciacelay was 19 when she vanished, presumed murdered, from her bloodied apartment in 1975. Her 92-year-old mother hopes to get answers before she dies.
“It gets harder,” said O’Keeffe, founder of The Missed Foundation, who will this month travel to California to meet Ruth Garciacelay, Julie’s mother.'
''Julie had only been in...
I'm also impressed by the way Helen Thomas goes about her work. If she was a footballer she'd be considered a straight-ahead player. She doesn't take a sidestep. Very focused. Doesn't suffer fools.
www.abc.net.au
Cheers. Have downloaded that podcast.
The 'Truman Show' technique Australian police are using to catch killers
Police in all Australian states and territories have used a controversial undercover method to catch killers, but there are calls for safeguards to address the risk of wrongful convictions.
In the light of perhaps a Mr. Big op being used , ( because VICPOL got him out of Athens somehow ) this article by the ABC may be of interest...
Have been listening to that podcast you suggested and the Mr Big sting they pulled on Glenn Weaven is so similar to the one the police pulled in the Daniel Morcombe case I was starting to think I had heard the Weaven story before.The 'Truman Show' technique Australian police are using to catch killers
Police in all Australian states and territories have used a controversial undercover method to catch killers, but there are calls for safeguards to address the risk of wrongful convictions.
In the light of perhaps a Mr. Big op being used , ( because VICPOL got him out of Athens somehow ) this article by the ABC may be of interest...
greekherald.com.au
anyone surprised by this?.. he must have been so emboldened.... Would not surprise me if the Hellenic Police had an eye on him as well.. if not for murder, then for theft, because he is an habitual thief...
Mary Ann Fagan, in Armadale.. a tram ride away... 2 trams the 96 in, and the East Malvern 5 out,, but that's nothing, in Melbourne.. that was in1978. a woman alone, with kids, in her home....
If it was Kouroumblis, it was an opportunistic murder because Julie Garciacelay travelled home from work that day with 3 men and was at her home in North Melbourne until she went out, alone, to make a phone call from a public phone box.
