What Happened On Easey Street? A Frustratingly Unsolved Mystery

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January 13th, 1977, an unsolved mystery begins. A neighbour discovers Susan Bartlett and Suzanne Armstrong dead from multiple stab wounds in their house on Easey Street. Suzanne's son Gregory, not yet two years old, is found inside the house - very weak but alive. Over 40 years later, the Easey Street Murders remain one of Australia's most baffling unsolved mysteries. People inside the house before the crime was discovered. Potential witnesses. DNA evidence, but no match for any of the 100 police suspects and not a charge laid against anybody. This video is an attempt to chronicle the story, how it has gotten to this point, and why it remains a cold case despite everything to the contrary.
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*Chapters*
00:00 Intro
00:49 The Two Sues
02:30 January 10th To 13th
05:05 The Crime Scene
06:40 The Suspects
09:54 The Witnesses
11:51 Today
*Music Used*
Let The Darkness Take Control By @CO.AG Music
Investigation By @RealTunesStudio
Intervention By @Scott Buckley
Mystery By @Wee Free Music
The Hunt By CO.AG Music
You Were So Close To The Truth By CO.AG Music
Nocturnal By @LEMMiNO Music
*Sources*
Murder On Easey Street by Helen Thomas (one of my main sources an excellent book if you want to gain a bit more info/context on the case. There's some stuff mentioned here that I couldn't quite find space for in this video, such as some red herrings in the case. The quotes in this video are from here)
www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1...
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...
"Bodies Two Days In Death Home" The Age, January 14th 1977, p1
"Police Seek Two Men Over Double Killing" Sydney Morning Herald, January 17th, 1977, p3
Casefile Podcast 207 - Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett
www.npr.org/2021/06/12/100569...
With the exception of the photos of Susan, Suzanne and Julie-Ann, all other imagery has been obtained through Pexels and Wikimedia Commons and used under various Crerative Commons licences.

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[@StrangeAustralian]

Thank you! Glad that you took the time to check out what I've done - hope you enjoy!

[@dennisdmenace4664]

Seeing your famous now strange and probably be on the front page of TIMES MAGAZINE next week, any theories on where the bloodied cloth was discarded? Obviously they have their reasons for not giving the exact location.

[@loretta_3843]

Going to check someone's phone number by jumping in their window, leaving a footprint and a note in the house rather than at the door/letterbox is a weird set of events!

[@StrangeAustralian]

It really is! Especially given that it might not happen today since everyone has mobile/cell phones.

[@Aasha383]

I know its so odd but they were all cleared it freaks me out living so close too i always look around like was it you.

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Me too. But I'm not impressed 😅

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[@StrangeAustralian]

Thank you, I hope you got something out of my video! I was wondering where everyone was coming from and just saw that Pat made that video public yesterday. Thanks for stopping by!

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[@kelliv2995]

Excellent video

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[@StrangeAustralian]

Thank you, glad you liked it! I've improved my editing since this one, and hope you check out any newer videos of mine that catch your eye.

[@LadyLibertyBella]

Another from Pat Brown’s channel. I appreciate your focus on the facts here. I enjoy many true crime channels but many go off into countless theories without evidence. Just muddying the actual case. I’ll definitely check out your other videos. Great work.

[@StrangeAustralian]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed this video! Hope you find something to like in my others as well.

[@patedwards8844]

Pat Brown sent me here

[@StrangeAustralian]

I'm very glad she did! I hope you enjoyed the video. Thanks for stopping by!

[@Nick-1992-SRB]

I live in Australia Victoria and this house is about 8 kilometres away from me and I’ve heard about this case on an episode called Sensing Murder years ago however I didn’t know that there was an old lady that might of seen the killers face through the window but choose not to identify what he looked like is kind of pretty disturbing when you think about it.

[@StrangeAustralian]

I think the whole case is disturbing, and everything with the witnesses and the people in the house afterwards makes it that bit more frustrating that it hasn't been solved. Nice profile pic, by the way - I find DB Cooper fascinating.

[@Amy-dw7ii]

What episode was it on Sensing Murder that covered this case? I am searching for it. I love that show.

[@Nick-1992-SRB]

@@Amy-dw7ii It's been deleted for some reason.

[@dennisdmenace4664]

Seen it a couple of times about 4 or 5 years ago, now gone. Was 2003 when it first came out so the 2 spirit ladies could easily research the first book (1996) and invent a good show. Give Roslyn credit finding the correct laneway the killer would have exited, she done her research. All the rest was mumble jumble crap but entertaining enough.

[@sylvain123]

Pat Brown sent me here also. Very interesting thankyou. You have a journalist voice. I agree with Pat that I hope you are encouraged to keep going with the channel. Great speaking voice and no nonsense approach. Fellow Aussie and new subscriber.

[@StrangeAustralian]

Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed! Hope you like the other videos on my channel, and enjoy what's to come.

[@fairmaiden6472]

How Weird. All these people breaking into the house to check their phone number and to leave a note???? And then theyre called Visitors?

[@StrangeAustralian]

It certainly is among the stranger events associated with a crime like this. One person going in the house would've been odd enough, but two groups of people is even more baffling.

[@belindasankovic8699]

2 groups of people coming in and they never heard the baby crying (a possible coincidence, if the baby had cried itself to sleep in distress on both occasions) But no smell of dead bodies? Surely being summer time in Australia there would’ve been some type of odour after 2 days by the time those people were entering the house?

[@mcmd2009]

Pat Brown sent me.

[@patedwards8844]

Same

[@StrangeAustralian]

Thanks for coming! I really appreciate Pat shouting me out as well. Hope you like what you see on my channel.

[@bretparker8533]

Another good vid

[@GhostlyFindingsParanormal]

Cool and interesting video thanks for sharing 👻🐍

[@StrangeAustralian]

Thank you, I'm glad you got something out of it. Hopefully this will become an outdated video in the future and be solved - if Somerton Man can be identified through DNA after all these years then perhaps Susan and Suzanne's killer will one day be found too.

[@dennisdmenace4664]

Face washer reported to be found was odd considering location, a photo shows detectives looking down a manhole on the west side of Hoddle street between Easey and Sackville streets. Someone would have seen him making his get away in that direction, probably between 11pm and before 11.30pm and it has not been confirmed by police if the face washer was related to the murders and reports of the knife look all false alarms as well. Still......The weapon just may have a crucial reading on the murders I reckon. Just a guess but.

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Pat Brown sent me too

[@StrangeAustralian]

Thank you, and thank you Pat! I hope you enjoy what you see here.

[@jaeleefox9591]

My grandmother went to school in Benalla with these girls 💔

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[@davidbyers7246]

I am absolutely sick of so called “true crime” videos that use a jumble of generic images and footage from around the world, from different times periods. Just use the real actual photos of the place and people, if that means less movement and colour, so be it!

[@Anna-lp8xs]

Mate if you're sick of it, why bother watching them at all? If you have nothing nice to say to small Australian content creators that don't even get paid to make these videos, don't say it. I'd also like to add by commenting on this video you're giving the algorithm the 'go ahead' to show you more of this content. Further, you've given this creator a boost. If you don't like something but see potential in a creator, give polite suggestions constructive criticism. Don't just blatantly give them flack.

[@davidbyers7246]

@@Anna-lp8xs well, I don’t know which videos are made in this fashion until I play them.

[@Anna-lp8xs]

@@davidbyers7246 then the second you realise, click off. It's not that hard.

[@karacordeiro5325]

It's easier to listen in cases like this one

[@SamStone1964]

​@@Anna-lp8xs Not taking things personally is your superpower.

[@Aasha383]

Collingwood in Melbourne is a pretty sketchy area (gamgs, drugs, crime)

[@StrangeAustralian]

Especially so back then!

[@leongt1954]

the only resin the next door nabours went into the house was because they were returning a puppy that belonged to the house ànd found the back door open then found the bodys

[@dennisdmenace4664]

Certainly is strange detectives on the case never checked with Collingwood Police station or Fitzroy Police Station. I find that hard to believe as the investigation went on longer and longer and longer.

[@StrangeAustralian]

It really is perplexing the more that I've thought about it since making this video. They had the foresight to collect the little DNA evidence available to them (even though testing technology would only come decades later), yet for whatever reason didn't do something as fundamental as speaking with local police about what happened.

[@dennisdmenace4664]

@@StrangeAustralian They were aware of the technology but still on the drawing board.......I think the first conviction came in mid 80s. May have been England I think I read somewhere a fair while ago. Surprised again they had no hair strands of the killer, I am sure there would have been some in the hallway.

[@StrangeAustralian]

I think there's every chance that there could have been hairs at one point, but they may have been inadvertently damaged/contaminated by the police who walked around and searched the place before the proper forensics team arrived. Another frustrating aspect, that I hope wouldn't be repeated today in similar cases.

[@dennisdmenace4664]

@@StrangeAustralian Another thing that looked odd was the places the girls were stabbed.......obviously both struggled for their lives but on the cheek, back of thighs and all over ect ect ect. May explain a lot about the knife and the killer if they ever stumble onto the right suspect. Pretty sure Suzanne Armstrong was already dead when Susan Bartlett would have looked in her room to see what was going on, more than likely coming from the outside back of house.

[@smileyzed3843]

Whatever happened to Gregory? Did he go to his dad in Greece? Where is he now?

[@StrangeAustralian]

There's an old Herald Sun article from 2013 that goes into some details. In short, he was raised by his aunt and met his father on a trip to Greece when he turned 20. I think he's stayed in Melbourne and runs a business there and is generally doing okay for himself.

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