NOTES

CHAPTER 1

‘She even claimed she had smuggled a suitcase’: Tom Prior, They Trusted Men. ‘I am so naive sometimes’: Tom Prior, They Trusted Men. ‘We’ve just been to Athens’: Suzanne’s letter to Gayle quoted in Tom Prior, They Trusted Men. ‘I know it will break his heart’: Suzanne’s letter to her mother and decision to leave Naxos in Tom Prior, They Trusted Men. ‘Suzanne Armstrong had just come back from Greece’: Comments from Sue Bartlett’s brother, Martin, from author’s interview with Martin Bartlett. ‘The area had been split’: Subdivision of Collingwood and ‘Collingwood Flat’ in Jill Barnard, ‘eMelbourne: The City Past and Present’ and ‘Early Collingwood Memories’, Collingwood Historical Society; Collingwood’s population and ‘noxious trades’ in Jill Barnard, ‘eMelbourne: The City Past and Present’. ‘Charles Jardine Don … was elected’: ‘Don, Charles Jardine (1820–1866)’, Australian Trade Union Archives. ‘John Wren, whose controversial career’: ‘Former John Wren’s Tote’, Collingwood Historical Society. ‘various organisations set up to support the poor’: Free medical dispensary and ‘home for fallen women’ in Jill Barnard, The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online and ‘Early Collingwood Memories’, Collingwood Historical Society. ‘The pervading memory that many Collingwood residents’: Jill Barnard, The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online. ‘Ponch Hawkes, a prolific Australian photographer’: Author’s interview with Ponch Hawkes. ‘By 1971, overseas-born residents’: Jill Barnard, The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online. ‘When she and Nick came to the beach’: Author’s interview with Su-lin Loh. ‘Susan would come and babysit us’: Author’s interview with Gary Biddell. ‘Every time I went over there’: Author’s interview with Martin Bartlett.

CHAPTER 2

I went over to do that’: Martin Bartlett’s movements that night, with girlfriend Vicki Crowe, in Martin Bartlett, police statement, 1977. ‘Her brother is sure’: Author’s interview with Martin Bartlett. ‘The women sustained eighty-two stab wounds’: Police information presented to the coroner, 12 July 1977.

CHAPTER 3

‘Grant was already up’: Ilona’s recollection of events that morning, including entering 147 Easey Street, in Ilona Stevens, police statement, 1977. ‘We have your dog which was wondering around the street’: An image of the note is available at independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/exclusive-did-the-easey-street-murderer-call-tess-lawrence,9930. ‘I heard the phone ring’: Ilona’s recollection of that evening in Ilona Stevens, police statement. ‘I felt that there was something wrong’: Janet Powell, police statement, 1977. ‘The dog’s still running around’: Ilona’s recollection of the uncollected dog and Greg’s crying in author’s interview with Ilona Stevens.

CHAPTER 4

‘Because there were two of them’: Author’s interview with Peter Hiscock. ‘On the bedspread near the window’: Description of crime scene, theories on killer and quotations from Detective Senior Sergeant Alf Oldfield, statement to the coroner. ‘I clearly remember the bed’: Description of crime scene, theories on killer and quotations taken from author’s interview with Peter Hiscock.

CHAPTER 5

‘The sink was dry, the stove was turned off’: Description of crime scene and quotations taken from Henry Huggins, statement to the coroner. ‘The final list of exhibits’: Taken from Huggins, statement to the coroner and Moira McBain, statement to the coroner. ‘A Constable Ron Iddles had stopped a man in a car’: Justine Ford, The Good Cop. ‘spermatozoa were found on both swabs’: Evidence presented to the coroner taken from Huggins, statement to the coroner. ‘would not “make the grade”’: Author’s interview with Henry Huggins. ‘167 centimetres in height and weighing 60 kilograms’: James McNamara, statement to the coroner.

CHAPTER 6

‘Suzanne Armstrong’s mother Eileen found out’: ‘Today’, Channel Nine. ‘Sue Bartlett’s brother Martin’: Author’s interview with Martin Bartlett. ‘Gayle Armstrong was 1000 kilometres away’: News of sister’s death and visit to the Woodard brothers from author’s interview with Gayle Armstrong. ‘contains no graves’: ‘Tilpa’, Australian Cemeteries Index. ‘Gayle’s a wild one’: Barry Woodard quoted in Tom Prior, They Trusted Men. ‘It was terrible’: Author’s interview with Gayle Armstrong. ‘I had to’: Author’s interview with Martin Bartlett. ‘I would like there to be no minimising of the brutality’: Quoted in Mike Roberts, ‘Public Fill a Chapel for Victims’ Funeral’. ‘Obviously, at that stage there was an ongoing inquiry’: Author’s interview with Martin Bartlett.

CHAPTER 7

‘She had been with me at my sister’s place’: Quotations from Barry Woodard in this chapter taken from Barry Woodard, police statement, 1977. ‘Barry has been with me for a few years’: Quotations from Margaret Chilcott in this chapter taken from Margaret Chilcott, police statement, 1977. ‘But I could not understand it’: Henry Woodard, police statement, 1977. ‘An American friend of mine walked into my room’: Visit and quotations in Tom Prior, They Trusted Men.

CHAPTER 8

‘They were very innocent times’: Helen Garner, ‘Cold Case Confidential’. ‘It used to be wide open’: Philip’s recollection of playing with Greg and of Collingwood from author’s interview with Phillip Perez. ‘He didn’t understand’: Author’s interview with Josephine Perez. ‘It was either a dream or someone walking past’: Author’s interview with Christina Fourtouris.

CHAPTER 9

‘They buggered it up’: Murphy’s view of Gladys Coventry and the investigation from author’s interview with Brian Murphy. ‘charged (and acquitted) of homicide’: John Silvester, ‘As a Detective, Brian Murphy Refused to Follow the Book. Now He’s Writing His Own’. ‘Dr Birrell, renowned around the world’: Andrew Rule, ‘Police Surgeon John Birrell Saved Lives with His Battle to Get Laws to Make Our Roads Safer’. ‘I think he told her he’d come for a welfare check’: Murphy’s view of John Birrell from author’s interview with Brian Murphy. ‘a really poor quality lean-to’: Hugh’s memories of Gladys, her house and her revelations about the murders from author’s interview with Hugh Parry-Jones. ‘couldn’t complain about living in Easey Street’: Author’s interview with Edie Haines. ‘I was on holidays too’: Peter’s recollections of the evening of the murders, police follow-up and call to Crime Stoppers from author’s interview with Peter Sellers. ‘I pushed Peter to call’: Author’s interview with Robyn McKenzie. ‘That’s rubbish’: Author’s interview with Bob Sellers.

CHAPTER 10

‘Police launched a man-hunt in Collingwood’, ‘She was naked from the waist down’, ‘looking for a crazed sex killer’: Ron Connelly, ‘2 Women Knifed to Death’. ‘murder house’: Tony Wilson, ‘Baby Alone in Murder House’. ‘The boyfriend of one of two young women’: Gerry Carman and Michael Gordon, ‘Bodies Two Days in Death House’. ‘Roving shearer Barry Woodard’: Gerry Carman and Michael Gordon, ‘Violent Death Ended a Christmas Love Story’. ‘[stabbed] at least 40 times’: Ron Connelly, ‘2 Women Knifed to Death’. ‘a very, very sick person’: Inspector Noel Jubb quoted in Rowan Forster, ‘It Remains One of Our Most Baffling Unsolved Cases. Who Killed Easey Street Residents Susan Bartlett and Suzanne Armstrong?’ ‘They do not want their information released’: Gerry Carman, ‘Double Killing: Two Leads’. ‘The knife was ... discovered’: Michael Gordon, ‘Knife Murder Clue’. ‘There are no blood samples on the knife’: Michael Gordon, ‘Knife Murder Clue’. ‘the killer spent some time inside the house’: ‘Easey St Murders Appeal’. ‘With a sex killer like this at large’: Chief Inspector Don Plant quoted in Tony Wilson, ‘Baby Alone in Murder House’. ‘I know two wrongs don’t make a right’, ‘If only people would realise’: Bill Armstrong and Martin Bartlett quoted in Tess Lawrence, ‘A Broker, A Father Amid Broken Dreams’. ‘I was grilled at one stage’: Quotations from Barry Woodard in Richard Shears, ‘I Want to Look After My Dead Girl’s Boy, Says Barry’. ‘The horror of that morning’: Owen McKenna, ‘My Day of Horror – Exclusive – Girl Next Door Tells’. ‘The trousers were dry-cleaned’: Jack Ayling, ‘Blood Soaked Trousers Clue’. ‘Detective Senior Sergeant Alf Oldfield told Truth’: Ian Dougall, title unknown, Truth. ‘Now all Gayle feels is an emptiness’: Richard Shears, ‘Suzanne’s Gregory is Doing Just Fine’.

CHAPTER 11

‘Crime rounds were different then’: Author’s interview with undisclosed source. ‘in the wrong spot twice’: Author’s interview with Peter Hiscock. ‘the result of homicide’: Sara Hinchey quoted in Tammy Mills, ‘“It was murder”‘. ‘the real bad deal’: Author’s interview with undisclosed source. ‘Collins and Grant came over’: Tammy Mills, ‘“It was murder”‘. ‘a view to having him wrongfully charged’: Powers’ allegations and their substantiation by Barry Beach QC in Beach, ‘Report of the Board of Inquiry into Allegations against Members of the Victoria Police Force’. ‘Power was dying’: Nino Bucci, ‘Another Twist in the Julie Ann Garciacelay Cold Case, 40 Years After She Disappeared’. ‘We went over there for a drink’: John Grant quoted in ibid. ‘They came all the way to see me’: Author’s interview with Adrian Tame. ‘It is understood, too’: Author’s undisclosed source. ‘We didn’t have that kind of relationship’: Ilona’s recollections of John Grant and the night of the murders from author’s interview with Ilona Stevens. ‘They never came the house’: Author’s interview with undisclosed source. ‘matters of life and death’: Geoffrey Barker, ‘The Crumbling Estate’. ‘a very brutal murder’: Harry Pascoe quoted in title unknown, The Herald.

CHAPTER 12

‘special session’: Gayle Armstrong’s impressions of her encounter with Doris Stokes from author’s interview with Gayle Armstrong. ‘I woke up and saw’: Doris Stokes’ session with Gayle Armstrong and quotations from Stokes in Stephen O’Baugh, ‘Psychic “Speaks” to Murder Victim’. ‘concerned with the natural’: Chief Inspector Paul Delianis quoted in ‘Murder Séance Not On: Police’. ‘I had contact with Lorraine’s father’: Quoted in Tom Prior, They Trusted Men. ‘Yeah, those girls went into the house’: Author’s interview with Gayle Armstrong. ‘They got police off-side’: Author’s interview with Debbie Malone. ‘worked “with the assistance of police”’: ‘Presenter – Debbie Malone’, Oz Paranormal and Spiritual Expo, 2018, www.ozparaexpo.com.au/ldquobetween-two-worldsrdquo-with-debbie-malone.html. ‘The community has a broader appreciation’: Author’s interview with Debbie Malone. ‘She told me I was going to travel’: Author’s interview with Gayle Armstrong.

CHAPTER 13

‘Like some of the police involved’: Prior’s motivation to write about the case, representation of the two women, recounting of Suzanne’s time in Greece, interview with Greg Armstrong and theories about the killer taken from Tom Prior, They Trusted Men. ‘Owen was a drinker, a gambler’: Tom Prior, They Trusted Men. ‘Towards the end, Tom met that cop’: Author’s interview with Michael Wilkinson. ‘What Prior didn’t write’: Andrew Rule, ‘No Easey Answers Forty Years After Women Slain’.

CHAPTER 14

‘the monster was genuinely shocked’: Tom Prior, They Trusted Men. ‘Dear Bruce’: quotations from Peter Collier’s letters, dated 30 January 2004, 11 February 2004, 23 January 2004, n.d. March 2004 and n.d. July 2004. ‘The initial intake of 387 patients expanded’: History of Larundel, ‘Larundel Mental Asylum’, Darebin Heritage. ‘Your [sic] probably aware’: Peter Collier, 10 January 2007. ‘out of the blue’: Author’s interview with Gayle Armstrong. ‘We support each other’: Bruce Kimball quoted in Sue Hewitt, ‘Mum’s Cold Case Quest’. ‘lived in just a bark or a tin hut’: Author’s interview with undisclosed source. ‘You can be sued’: Author’s interview with Lester Walton.

CHAPTER 15

‘I think for a story not to be resolved’: Helen Garner, ‘Cold Case Confidential’. ‘a shabby holiday town’: Andrew Rule, Rule on Crime. ‘I remember being called’: Ron Iddles quoted in Justine Ford, The Good Cop. ‘I think it is important’: Iddles quoted in Keith Moor, ‘Victoria Police Cold Case Unit Identifies 30 Homicide Cases They Believe Are “Highly Solvable”‘. ‘getting great results’: Iddles quoted in Keith Moor, ‘Cold Case Murders’. ‘too many “persons of interest”‘: Author’s interview with Iddles. ‘the DNA testing hadn’t been done correctly’, ‘While DNA testing has so far failed to uncover an offender’: Bruce Currie and Iddles quoted in Chris Vedelago, ‘New DNA Testing for Easey Street Suspects’. ‘a long, long story’: Iddles quoted in AAP, ‘New Lead in 1977 Vic Easey St Murders’.

CHAPTER 16

‘the most beautiful X-ray photographs’: History of DNA in ‘The History of DNA Timeline’, DNA WorldWide. ‘Jeffreys quickly realised’: Jeffreys’ discovery and the Colin Pitchfork and Desmond Applebee cases in Ian Cobain, ‘Killer Breakthrough – The Day DNA Evidence First Nailed a Murderer’. ‘a Melbourne serial rapist, George Kaufman’: Keith Moor, ‘Cold Case Murders’. ‘24 hours, seven days a week’: ‘National Criminal Investigation DNA Database’, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. ‘1936 samples from the scenes’: Keith Moor, ‘Cold Case Sex Attacks’. ‘68,000 attempts to match profiles’: Quotations and reporting of proposal to store genetic samples in Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim, ‘The National DNA Database is Watching You’. ‘Golden State Killer’: Benjamin Oreskes et al., ‘False Starts in Search for Golden State Killer Reveal the Pitfalls of DNA Testing’. ‘four bodies found in two barrels’: New Hampshire Public Radio, Bearbookpodcast.com. ‘did not “currently use online genealogy databases”‘: Erin Pearson, ‘Beware! Cops Can Use DNA Data to Pick Bad Apples from Your Family Tree’.

CHAPTER 17

‘been before the coroner’: ‘8 Victorian Cold Case Deaths Draw $1 Million Rewards for Information’. ‘sadness of not knowing where she is’: AAP, ‘Victoria Police Offers $8 Million in Rewards to Solve Cold Cases’. ‘the rewards system was being overhauled’: Robert Baird, ‘Victoria Police Overhauls Rewards System for Serious Crime’. ‘comfort and hope’: Role of rewards and statistics on payouts in Ugur Nedim, ‘Catching Criminals’. ‘In the past thirty or forty years’: Author’s interview with Ron Iddles. ‘help solve crimes’, ‘paid for providing evidence’: Nick Howe and Tim Passmore quoted in Emma Hallett, ‘Do Cash Rewards Actually Help Catch Criminals?’ ‘The media has a big part to play’: Iddles quoted in Keith Moor, ‘Cold Case Murders’. ‘here’s a million dollars’, ‘the mistakes those guys may have made’: Gayle Armstrong and Mick Hughes quoted in Luke Costin, ‘$1m Reward for 1977 Easey Street Murders’. ‘If you’re going to offer your DNA’: Hughes quoted in Loretta Florance, ‘Easey Street Murders’. ‘Everything, everything’: Armstrong quoted in Luke Costin, ‘$1m Reward for 1977 Easey Street Murders’. ‘We have good DNA evidence’: Hughes quoted in ‘Million-dollar Reward Offered for Information on Easey St Murders’. ‘all concerning people like me’: Armstrong quoted in Loretta Florance, ‘Easey Street Murders’.

CHAPTER 18

‘come forward now’: Jenny Rose Ng murder recounted in AAP, ‘Fresh Appeal to Solve 30-year Murder’, News.com.au. ‘Andrew Rule reported’: Neil Rowland Bugg’s story in Andrew Rule, ‘No Easey Answers Forty Years After Women Slain’. ‘I could smell their blood in the hallway’: Tess Lawrence, ‘Did the Easey Street Murderer Call Tess Lawrence?’

CHAPTER 19

‘It’s very different to homicide involving intimate partners’: Author’s interview with Professor Debbie Kirkwood. ‘“organised/disorganized” serial killers’: Robert Ressler et al., ‘Sexual Killers and Their Victims’, pp. 288–308. ‘an examination of the crime scene’: David Canter et al., ‘The Organized/Disorganized Typology of Serial Murder’. ‘revised classification model’: Richard D. Keppel and Richard Walter, ‘Profiling Killers’, pp. 417–37.

CHAPTER 20

‘Peter Demeris had bought the house’: See realestateview.com.au. ‘It was difficult to sell’: Chris Vedelago, ‘Notorious Murder House Changes Hands’. ‘the owner’s got tradies in’: Author’s interview with Hugh Parry-Jones. ‘I suppose it would have helped to actually know up front’: Dennis Gentry quoted in Natalie Harris, ‘147 Easey Street’. ‘This strange note’: Author’s interview with Dean Wilson. ‘Larundel Hospital protected Anthony Thomas Christie’: Note by Peter Collier, given to the author by Andrew Muir. ‘the street was still abuzz’: Author’s interview with Susy Potter. ‘More than 100 people turned up for the sale’: Bruce Kimball and Bill Batcheler quoted in Chris Vedelago, ‘Notorious Murder House Changes Hands’. ‘Enjoying a revitalised identity’: Nelson Alexander, ‘147 Easey Street’, realestate.com.au. ‘They were always up there’: Recollections of the murder and the neighbourhood, and theories on the killer, from author’s interview with Andrew Muir. ‘I moved into this student house’: Recollections of the neighbourhood from author’s interview with Steve Cox.

CHAPTER 21

‘We were in the portables on Darling Gardens’: Recollections of Sue Bartlett from author’s interview with Cavell Zangalis. ‘The evening was pleasant, she says’: Recollections of party from author’s interview with Susie Skelton. ‘She was such a bubbly presence’: Recollections of Sue Bartlett from author’s interview with Joe Blake. ‘We were at the beach’: Recollections of Sue Bartlett and news of death from author’s interview with Su-lin Loh. ‘It must have been in spring’: Recollections of Sue Bartlett and news of death from author’s interview with Nick Dimopoulos. ‘we would have stayed together’: Recollections of Suzanne Armstrong from author’s interview with Greg Molineaux. ‘we all lived in a block of flats’: Recollections of Suzanne Armstrong and bohemian Melbourne from author’s interview with Colin Talbot. ‘I’m safe here, touch wood’: Author’s interview with Gayle Armstrong. ‘Terry’s death also made headlines’: ‘Trail of Sadness’. ‘Martin Bartlett has kept a more private vigil’: Author’s interview with Martin Bartlett.

CHAPTER 22

‘The key term is next-generation DNA sequencing’: Forensic scientist’s comments on DNA testing and the Easey Street case from author’s interview with undisclosed source. ‘You’ve got to nurture people’: Author’s interview with Brian Murphy. ‘with saturation DNA testing we might get an answer’: Author’s interview with Peter Hiscock.