Christine Sharrock (left) and Marianne Schmidt (right)

Detectives and searchers on the beach

Search team digs in the sand

Georgia:

Wanda Beach Murders

Episode sources:

1. “Case 01: The Wanda Beach Murders” (Casefile Podcast)

2. “Two Sydney girls found murdered” (The Canberra Times, January 13, 1965)

3. “Movements of girls killed on beach puzzled brothers” (The Canberra Times, April 22, 1966)

4. “Loved ones of the two girls murdered at Sydney's Wanda Beach reflect on the cold case 60 years on” by Ruby Ritchie (ABC, January 11, 2025)

5. “Murder latest blow to migrant family” (The Sydney Morning Herald, January 14, 1965)

6. “Two girls stabbed on beach” (Evening Herald, January 13, 1965)

7. “Hunt for clues” (AP, January 13, 1965)

8. “Detectives question youth, 18” (The Sydney Morning Herald, January 19, 1965)

Recommendation Corner

Books
Girl A by Abigail Dean
Day One by Abigail Dean

TV
Sense and Sensibility