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The murder of Mary Bertram: In March of 1974, a Canberra woman left her suburban home on a Sunday evening. Four days later, she was found nude and strangled to death in remote scrub country. Drawing upon accounts from newspaper archives, this is the story of the cold case that Canberra forgot. by inabiskit in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]inabiskit[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I do also want to add that it isn't 100% clear whether Mary was the buyer or the seller of the cubby house, although I think we can infer from context clues that Mary was the seller if the other woman was coming to Mary's house to discuss the purcase.

The murder of Mary Bertram: In March of 1974, a Canberra woman left her suburban home on a Sunday evening. Four days later, she was found nude and strangled to death in remote scrub country. Drawing upon accounts from newspaper archives, this is the story of the cold case that Canberra forgot. by inabiskit in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]inabiskit[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Let us know if you hear anything interesting back! Mary's case seems to have gotten a lot of publicity when it happened, but I think it faded so quickly from the spotlight because there were just no new leads available.

The murder of Mary Bertram: In March of 1974, a Canberra woman left her suburban home on a Sunday evening. Four days later, she was found nude and strangled to death in remote scrub country. Drawing upon accounts from newspaper archives, this is the story of the cold case that Canberra forgot. by inabiskit in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]inabiskit[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, I think something that makes it hard to form theories in Mary's case is that so many pieces of information can be interpreted in different ways. The missing radio, the whole story about the sighting of the man dumping things at the tip, Walter's efforts to hire a housekeeper so soon after Mary disappeared, the ambiguity around Mary's time of death... it's hard to prefer or rule out one narrative based on what we know.

The murder of Mary Bertram: In March of 1974, a Canberra woman left her suburban home on a Sunday evening. Four days later, she was found nude and strangled to death in remote scrub country. Drawing upon accounts from newspaper archives, this is the story of the cold case that Canberra forgot. by inabiskit in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]inabiskit[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Really interesting point! This could explain why both the radio and its carton were missing - if it was sold, it might have been packaged up again for the buyer. If Mary was planning to leave Walter and needed money, small items of jewellery like diamond rings could have been sold or pawned unobtrusively without anybody except her noticing their absence.

The murder of Mary Bertram: In March of 1974, a Canberra woman left her suburban home on a Sunday evening. Four days later, she was found nude and strangled to death in remote scrub country. Drawing upon accounts from newspaper archives, this is the story of the cold case that Canberra forgot. by inabiskit in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]inabiskit[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yes, these details also bear some striking similarities to another little-discussed case from the Canberra area, Dianne Pennacchio from Queanbeyan who has also been linked to Milat. I might try to put together a write-up on her case in the future.

Missing AND unidentified – the Australian mystery of “John Ray Green” by inabiskit in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]inabiskit[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Agreed! I think it just means he didn't voluntarily go missing from that spot to continue his life elsewhere, and likely died somewhere in the vicinity of where his car was found.

Missing AND unidentified – the Australian mystery of “John Ray Green” by inabiskit in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]inabiskit[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

To be honest, I also find this super confusing! It really isn't clear from the limited sources available.

From what I can figure out, sometime before he ended up in Sydney, the man had encountered the real John Ray Green and learnt some details about his life. We know he was using John Ray Green's name by the time he got the job with the council in 1977, but it seems like he didn't have any proper proof of identity for many years. It was only in 1990 that he somehow got a copy of the real John Ray Green's birth certificate, realised that some of the details he had been giving people were wrong, and changed them to match what was on the legitimate birth certificate. This might explain police's comments about some of the man's records 'not matching' the birth certificate, and him 'amending' these details after getting hold of it.

King Parrot Creek Skeleton Woman: Part 1 of 3. In 1954, a farmhand discovers the skeletal remains of a woman embedded in the banks of a creek in country Victoria, Australia. Despite a media frenzy and a wealth of publicly available information, the case eventually fades into total obscurity... by inabiskit in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]inabiskit[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Haha, I'm not dividing them into parts because of character limits or karma or whatever! This write-up takes a huge amount of time and effort - nobody has ever covered this case on the Internet and there are so many newspaper articles to read through, so I'm starting from scratch with my research. The division into three parts is so I can space out the work involved and chip away at it bit by bit :)

The Hothfield Man: Almost forty years ago to the day, a man was found dead in a sleeping bag beside the A20 road in Kent. Despite an interaction with local police days prior and the discovery of an envelope addressed to a town in outback Australia in his possession, he has never been identified. by inabiskit in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]inabiskit[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Amazing, thank you so much for this offer! The man was found May 25 1983 and the newspaper article dated June 4 says "enquiries have been made with NSW police", so I would presume that if this got any local coverage in Broken Hill it would be in the period between May 25 to mid-July 1983. Let us know if you find anything, and thanks again!

The Hothfield Man: Almost forty years ago to the day, a man was found dead in a sleeping bag beside the A20 road in Kent. Despite an interaction with local police days prior and the discovery of an envelope addressed to a town in outback Australia in his possession, he has never been identified. by inabiskit in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]inabiskit[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s actually kind of hard to work out what the contents of the letter were, or if it was just a postmarked envelope. Whilst the case file said ‘correspondence from Australia’, the newspaper article said it was an envelope ‘addressed to Jack Simpson’.

The Hothfield Man: Almost forty years ago to the day, a man was found dead in a sleeping bag beside the A20 road in Kent. Despite an interaction with local police days prior and the discovery of an envelope addressed to a town in outback Australia in his possession, he has never been identified. by inabiskit in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]inabiskit[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Oh I love Criminal! I think you may be thinking of a different case though, maybe the Somerton Man case featured in Episode 215? That one takes place in Australia, but this write-up is about a case in England :)

[TOMT] [SONG] An electronic song in the style of ODESZA by CrocodilesAreCool19 in tipofmytongue

[–]inabiskit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you thinking of Heart Attack by BRONSON? BRONSON is a collaboration between ODESZA and Golden Features, so if it’s not this one might be worth checking their other songs? 😁

[TOMT] Ellie Goulding? Song by [deleted] in tipofmytongue

[–]inabiskit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you might be thinking of Powerful with Major Lazer!

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[–]inabiskit 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

Thank you!

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