One quiet summer night in Melbourne. Forty six years ago, Susanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were brutally stabbed to death in their home in Easy Street, Collingwood, as Suzanne's young toddler, Land Is caught. Their killer has never been found, and their double homicide remains one of Australia's most chilling cold cases.
It would be absolutely fair to say that I'm seventy five now, hardly a day goes by that I don't think about this particular murder.
Did they know their killer or was it a random attack? At the time, police weren't sure and warned women in Melbourne to lock their doors and windows, Yet they failed to interview a number of witnesses living in the street. One right next door to Sue and Suzanne.
She told me that she was sitting there at the window because it was a hot night, and she said she saw a bloke leaving out the back gate.
Till this day, until I die, I'm convinced there were two killers, not one.
Has the investigation focused on the wrong person? How many men were really there.
In the Easy Street murders. We'll talk to forensic and legal experts as well as Suzanne and Susan's family and friends.
She had a good sense of humor, and the kids loved her because she made them feel real.
She wasn't constrained, i should say, by the norms of the time, which forty five years ago a single mother was regarded very poorly by society.
And the retired detective who'll never forget walking into the little house in Easy Street.
But this guy has done something so bad, so bad that humanity just would never even forgive him, no matter who the reality was, what he did to those two girls could never ever ever be forgiven or anyone.
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