EXTRAS

Read additional content, examine floor plans, chart the connections, study post-mortem examinations.

 

 

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Map the connections of the main characters in the book. View the Old London Coiffure building floorplans to track the killer's possible route.

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3RPC-FM Radio Programme & Transcript

Portland’s 3RPC-FM, a station manned by volunteers, dedicated three hours to listeners’ questions and concerns specifically about the murders of Mrs Acocks and Mrs Penny. The studio lacked the technical capacity for a talk-back programme, so listeners telephoned the station, their questions were scribbled down and then read out over the air. Fielding their inquiries were Mr Watson-Munro and Detective Senior Constable Tony Dickinson from the Victoria Police Crime Prevention Bureau. The programme was hosted by volunteer radio announcer, Faith Sutterby, who had a weekly Thursday morning timeslot.

"I was amazed when I went down there," Melbourne consultant forensic psychologist Mr Tim Watson-Munro recalls "I remember it vividly. We were on air for three hours and we could have been on air for another three hours, the switchboard was so jammed. I believe that what I was witnessing was an entire community suffering the symptoms of post- traumatic stress disorder, an entire community of `tertiary victims'."

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Post Mortem Examination and Coroner’s Findings

“The person responsible – and I believe the evidence indicates there was only one person – at some stage locked both the back and front doors of the premises, which were usually left unlocked.”
– Coroner, James Hanrahan.

The joint inquest into Mrs Acocks and Mrs Penny’s murders on February 21, 1995, reluctantly brought the main stakeholders back together for an unsettling reunion. Sitting in Portland, the Coroner’s Court heard a summarised version of the investigation as it stood after almost four years.

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