Australia Australia - Wolf Creek, QLD: Is serial killer hunting victims on Flinders Highway?

[MsAnais]

One of the most terrifying movies I've ever seen. Ended up curled into a fetal position in the theater seat by the time it was over. Made me sick to my stomach. Horrifying to know that it was influenced by true events.

I've been too chicken to watch it!!:blushing:

Thanks Strangeworld, for starting this thread!:seeya: Much appreciated.

 

[JaimeSommers]

I've been too chicken to watch it!!:blushing:

Thanks Strangeworld, for starting this thread!:seeya: Much appreciated.

The violence depicted against the women was too real for my liking. Horrifying. And I've got incredibly strong intestinal fortitude.

ETA: I actually went with a friend, both of us thinking it was going to be a mindless horror movie like "Halloween." It was not. I was shaken for a few days.

 

[MsAnais]

The violence depicted against the women was too real for my liking. Horrifying. And I've got incredibly strong intestinal fortitude.

ETA: I actually went with a friend, both of us thinking it was going to be a mindless horror movie like "Halloween." It was not. I was shaken for a few days.

Hi Jaime :seeya:

I've got strong intestinal fortitude as well but something in me knew to avoid that one........some movies just really get you.

I'm STILL weird in the forest due to 'Evil Dead' when I was a teenager! (and I've ended up living in the forest, which is a mind-trip!!:floorlaugh

 

[Humdinger]

Hi Jaime :seeya:



I've got strong intestinal fortitude as well but something in me knew to avoid that one........some movies just really get you.



I'm STILL weird in the forest due to 'Evil Dead' when I was a teenager! (and I've ended up living in the forest, which is a mind-trip!!:floorlaugh

I've never watched it either! My 'excuse' being that you just can't un-see something and I knew it would just be too real!

 

[enzeder]

I've never watched it either! My 'excuse' being that you just can't un-see something and I knew it would just be too real!

BBM :yes:

 

[enzeder]

IT is a lonely stretch of highway with wide open spaces, isolation and a dark history.

The 800km Flinders Highway between Townsville and Mount Isa, which becomes the Barkly Highway between Cloncurry and Mount Isa, could easily have been the inspiration for the 2005 horror film, Wolf Creek.

A number of missing persons cases and brutal murders have links to the highway, including the disappearance of hitchhiker Anthony “Tony” Jones in 1982.

There have been a number of high-profile, and brutal, slayings and mysterious disappearances since the 1970s.

Townsville Bulletin regional editor John Andersen travels the Flinders Highway frequently.

“It’s not somewhere I would pull up for a sleep in the back of my car,” he said.

Grisly tales of terror punctuate wretched route’s gloomy past
http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.a...utes-gloomy-past/story-fnjfzs4b-1226827907643

 

[enzeder]

30 July 1975
CATHERINE PAMELA GRAHAM (18)
Last seen - at a friend's place in Hermit Park, QLD on 29 July. She was reported missing the following day. Her body was found at Oak Valley on 1 August. She had been bashed to death with a rock. Witnesses reported seeing two men in a 1968 Holden panel van near where her body was found on 29 July.
Reward - Queensland Police - $250,000

Missing and Murdered - Catherine Graham
http://missingandmurderedaustralia.blogspot.co.nz/2011/06/catherine-graham.html

 

[enzeder]

MURDER OF CATHERINE PAMELA GRAHAM $250,000 REWARD

Queensland Police
See more: http://www.police.qld.gov.au/News+and+Alerts/rewards/g/graham.htm

 

[enzeder]

Catherine Pamela Graham, 18, was last seen on the evening of July 29, 1975, after visiting a friend at Hermit Park. She was reported missing the next day.

Her handbag was later found in the Ross River and her body was discovered 18 kilometres from Townsville at Oak Valley three days after her disappearance.

Police reopen 1975 murder case
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-07-29/police-reopen-1975-murder-case/1370262

 

[enzeder]

Sen-Sgt Knowles said Graham had spent the day selling children's books door-to-door in the suburb of Hermit Park. She was supposed to meet friends that night but did not make it.

Sen-Sgt Knowles said she had bought something to eat at the Rising Sun Cafe about 7.30pm and went to visit a sick friend at Townsville Hospital at 8.30pm.

She was last seen leaving a friend's place at The Avenue, Hermit Park, at 10pm.

She told her friend that "there was a man waiting for her".

Still hope 30 years on
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/still-hope-30-years-on/story-e6freoof-1111112201011

 

[enzeder]

Murdered Queensland woman
Catherine Pamela Graham.​

Huge reward for cold case clues
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/huge-reward-for-cold-case-clues-20090729-e0f4.html

 

[enzeder]

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...s-remote-highway/story-fnihsrf2-1226828595305

 

[enzeder]

Police are also aware of an unconfirmed sighting of Mr Jones drinking with another man at the Rising Sun Hotel in Townsville.

Northern region crime coordinator Cheryl Scanlon said police had recently received new information - from known and anonymous sources - that Mr Jones had made it to Hughenden.

The town, which is about 380 kilometres west of Townsville and has a population of 1150, is a common rest stop between the two cities. Police believe Mr Jones may have been there between November 3 and November 11, 1982.

“A team of detectives are going to Hughenden to make inquiries with residents past and present,” Detective Acting Superintendent Scanlon said.

Police with fresh leads on disappearance of Tony Jones in 1982
Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...nes-in-1982-20140210-32bnx.html#ixzz2tY9yGRfl

 

[enzeder]

A coronial inquest in 2002 could only conclude Tony's death was "at the hand of a person or persons unknown" and police investigations should continue.

It did however, reveal several bungles in the police investigation, including lost paperwork and physical evidence.

The inconclusive finding wasn't enough to quell the Jones family's dogged determination for justice.

Missing Perth man's family want answers
Read more: http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/17944944/missing-perth-mans-family-want-answers/

 

[enzeder]

Rumours of a local link with the case have circulated for three decades.

Flinders Shire Mayor Greg Jones thinks about Mr Jones whenever he drives past the turn-off to Nelia, on the Flinders Highway.

There has always been talk that Mr Jones met his fate at Nelia, he said.

Town may hide a secret
Read more: http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/news/town-may-hide-a-secret/story-fnjfzs4b-1226824358775

 

[enzeder]

Senior Sergeant John Mahony, who first worked on the Tony Jones case in 2001, said that police had long suspected that Tony meet with foul play somewhere between Townsville and Mount Isa, however credible new information now had police looking in the Hughenden area.

“This new information has come to us from both anonymous and known informants and has for the first time in years provided us with a new direction for our investigations, a direction we are hopeful will finally let us know what happened to Tony.

“The last confirmed location for Tony was from a phone box on Bowen Road in Rosslea, Townsville on the evening of November 3, when he rang home and spoke to his family and girlfriend.

Police QPS News: Promising leads in 30 year-old disappearance of Tony Jones
Read more: http://mypolice.qld.gov.au/blog/2014/02/10/promising-leads-30-year-old-disappearance-tony-jones/

 

[MsAnais]

Grisly tales of terror punctuate wretched route’s gloomy past
http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.a...utes-gloomy-past/story-fnjfzs4b-1226827907643

That is an absolutely chilling article. And just looking at the highway and the land around it in that photo freaks me out!! It even feels eerie from here, in the safety of my own home a million miles away!:scared:

 

[MsAnais]

Town may hide a secret
Read more: http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/news/town-may-hide-a-secret/story-fnjfzs4b-1226824358775

That article really does imply that his murder was an open secret in the town .......

It always amazes me when it's revealed that people have known about a murder for many years but never come forward. I'm just wondering what that does to people to sit on it? It cannot sit comfortably in the psyche IMO.

I understand the social pressure in a small town to stick together and protect their own, but really......how can anyone do that when it's about someone losing a life. Unless they were all scared of the perpetrator (which is not unlikely!)

I'm glad the truth seems to be finally emerging.

Thank you so much for your fabulous work finding all these articles, enzeder!!:loveyou:

 

[Strangeworld]

You couldn't pay me to drive that road alone, let alone with others. So many outback roads in Australia (and some of the highways in the US for that matter) are part legend, part truth, but scary as all.......

 

[marlywings]

Andy Albury prime suspect in up to 14 unsolved murders in north Queensland

February 23, 2014


EVIL killer and ex-abattoir worker Andy Albury is the prime suspect in up to 14 unsolved murders as police investigate a possible cold case breakthrough and links to a tiny slaughterhouse in outback Queensland.

Dubbed Australia’s Hannibal Lecter, the convicted killer has allegedly confessed to butchering his victims in a random killing spree including on a lonely stretch of road infamously known as the “highway of death”.

Queensland Police, acting on a tip-off, have descended on Hughenden on the notorious Flinders Highway to investigate fresh leads in one of the nation’s most baffling murder mysteries: the disappearance of hitchhiker Tony Jones in 1982.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...north-queensland/story-fnihsrf2-1226834683557