Case 01: The Wanda Beach Murders

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On the 11th of January 1965, two fifteen-year-old schoolgirls Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt were found murdered in the Wanda sand hills, just north of Cronulla Beach in Sydney's south.
The crime remains one of the most horrific Australia has ever seen. Despite an exhaustive police investigation, the killer remains unknown…
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Production, scoring - Mike Migas
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[@itallia666]

Im English but my father who was a marine engineer, was contracted to Australia to oversee a new operation for 5 yrs so me & my mum went with him. Based in Sydney we lived in a place called Dolls Point near the beach overlooking Botany Bay This was in 1964 & as a 13 yr old schoolgirl, me & my friends regularly went to Cronulla Beach as it wasnt far from us & the best beach by far for socialising & surfing I remember in 1965 going almost every weekend & vertually daily during school holidays Then suddenly my parents forbade me going to Cronulla Beach anymore. In fact most of my close friends were forbidden to go there unless supervised by a few parents & ordered to stay within speaking distance I was vaguely aware something bad had happened at the beach but in those days our parents wouldnt expand on exactly what. Fearing we were too young to be told details & it would upset us & cause nightmares It wasnt until very recently, 2 yrs ago ( & thats 50 yrs ago since the Cronulla/Wanda Beach murders occurred) that i heard the full events of what took place when i was just 14. I was horrified! Im pleased my parents didnt tell me & supervised all our beach trips thereafter. It could so easily been one of us As we often walked from Cronulla to Wanda. It was a very lonely place too, it scared me & i never liked walking there. Just shows, wrong place wrong time can happen to anyone.

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That is absolutely insane

[@texastea5686]

Thank you for sharing this! I always wonder what people remember when I hear these kinds of events

[@JulieLeach-n3m]

@itallia666 im wondering if thats why the police didnt get people coming forward becase parent banned crunulla and wanda beach to their kids ...😢😢😢its a scarey thought 😢

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[@debraboardman2597]

There weren't a lot of "surfies" back in 65, it was in it's infancy then, I just don't think there they were running around in the thousands.

[@MrBinks-un8ju]

The public failed these kids. Too afraid to come forward because of possible embarrassment. Obviously based on the autopsy they had within an hour of thier deaths been at a public gathering. Not one person cared more about them than themselves to come forward.

[@westnblu]

Moral of the story listen to grandmas advice they know more full of wisdom but nah teens will be teens.

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But what about the DNA that replicates the DNA until they have enough to test ?and the ancestry DNA thats solve many crimes .

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It would be sweet if they did these in english.

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Great content but the echo like audio quality makes it difficult to concentrate

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[@inquiringmind2852]

Excellent job on this case! Very professionally executed. Also it's great to hear about cases from Australia since I'm in the US. You've got a new subscriber! What a disturbing case.

[@caveyful]

It's interesting that the savage murder of the cleaner a year later in Wollongong also occurred within 100 meters of a train station in an very seedy area where vagrants would often sleep. It's possible both crimes were perpetrated by a train hobo/beach bum, possibly because summer school holidays offered him opportunities or that he attended school. This may be supported by the fairly advanced home made nature of the spear found near the boy crabbing was found. A home made spear is harder to trace. Someone who hangs out with other beach hobos would soon learn how to make a spear. It also possible the girls attended a kind of hobo/pervert/tramp beach party where Christine had a drink, I would imagine tramps might spend the night there. This also might be the reason not many who were seen in the area came forward. The girls may have been invited to meet someone at the beach or sandhills which was why they were quite determined to be there, but were not able to due to the weather. This could also be linked to the boy appearing angry coz they didn't come (or possibly because they didn't bring food), furthering support that he was a tramp. Wilder was a well built 19 yo and would be less likely to have needed to rest dragging a body, however after the physical exertion of killing /chasing 2 girls may have just needed to obscure the body quickly. I wonder if more than one person is involved to some extent? Maybe a young (homeless?) boy procured the girls where an older man was involved in the murder. It's also worth nothing the area where Anna Dowling was found is fairly large area surrounding a small medical research atomic reactor used for camping, dumping and trail biking as it is unsuitable for habitation. Great research and presentation BTW. It's good that people don't stop trying to catch these bastards. Keep it up.

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Anyone else reminded of Delphi?

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If the cops didn't want Wolfgang changing his story maybe they shouldn't question a young kid the way they question adults

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[@graemecouch5010]

The reason Derek Percy got away with this terrible crime is because he was so young & nobody suspected him ! The perfect Alibi !

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[@katrinasayers1863]

Percy liked kids. Not young women.

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[@warriorpoet9629]

If the cops have DNA from the girls clothes why have they not compared it, and excluded the DNA from Percy and Wilder? Wilder lived at meadowbank, around the corner from the girls. If anyone had known them and arranged to meet it was him. Interesting bit of personal trivia regarding this case: we lived in Cronulla at the time. Trevalyn st leading down to Shelly beach. I was in kindergarten at S. Cronulla school at the time. Came home one day to discover a teenage boy living in our house. I was told he was a border. Fair ish brown hair. I liked him as he used to play football with me. Some time later he disappeared. He had evidently been robbing houses in the area and my father kicked him out. We abruptly moved a month later. Feb 65. I remember his name for one very good reason: he was no border but one of two sons my mother had in a previous marriage. Both of them ended up being vicious criminals and one died in jail. It’s always nagged at me that he has something to do with these deaths.

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[@KathleenCalhoun-em6ys]

I want to comment about Wolfgang, the 7 year-old eyewitness. I don't consider the additions to his original statement as "changes." He was trying to remember more, and as he did, he offered additional information to what he said since he was prompted to. I find it odd that young people at the age of 9 aren't considered credible witnesses in a murder case yet with this one, a 7 year-old is not only accused of changing things but are demanding a whole lot from him.

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Found this channel lookin up the EAR. This is gonna be my new binge listen for work now.

[@MayankMrug]

Halfway through the episode I had to stop and check the auto-generated captions to figure out what exactly was being said - Surfie Teen? Surfer Teen? Surfie Team? Survey Team? Every time he says this the captions give a different answer...

[@MegamixCentral]

Definitely surfie team

[@manonmaas9580]

Wolfgang told police he saw a blond teenage surfie (surfie teen).

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Surfie teen 😂 blond hulking ausie teenager who spends all day riding the waves of the sea. You know the ones you see on all the videos of Bondi beach😆

[@jxs9938]

I have been trying to Google this for like 20 mins, thought it was some kinda Australian slang.

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@@MegamixCentral surfie teen!

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Steve Martin brings me here. Yeah.

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First time this show ever made me laugh. 33:50 made me crack up. The host giving a guy with corrugated iron on his head some cover. I also can't believe how strong the production is from the first episode.

[@Nana-Opa]

Wolfgang was just 5 years old. Add that to the reasons to get his witness statement messed up

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[@sheryldalton8965]

Christopher Wilder murdered a woman in the area i live in on his killing rampage at the end of his sorry life. He stopped at a mall in Beaumont Tx & snatched her in the parking lot. That mall still has a dangerous reputation.

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[@lorraineselby]

Fascinating. Their poor families 😢 R.I.P.

[@carrieking6343]

The narrator talks too fast. I could barely understand

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Too bad the morality laws of the 60's are long gone now we have an abyss of carnage

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Wanted to like but 666 likes

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Can you please talk alittle slower. There is alot of information to digest.

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Christopher Wilder did it.

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The culprit was Chris wilder

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Narrator speaks too fast

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