7 episodes
Casefile Presents: The Easey Street Murders Casefile Presents
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4.3 • 143 Ratings
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Forty six years ago, on a warm summer night in Melbourne, Susan Bartlett and Suzanne Armstrong were stabbed to death in their home in Easey Street, Collingwood. Suzanne's 16 month-old son was asleep in the cot at this time. The double homicide remains one of the most confronting cold cases.
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One Summer Night
Forty six years ago, on a quiet night in January, long-time friends Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were brutally stabbed to death in their rented house in Collingwood, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne. Suzanne’s 16 month son was in his cot, just metres away from the frenzied attack. Journalist Helen Thomas has been reporting on this case for several years and continues that investigation now...
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Two Sues
The ‘two Sues’, as they were affectionately known, had been close friends since high school. Vibrant, engaging women in their 20s, their shared love of traveling eventually led them back to the little house in Easey Street. Friends and family remember them.
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Three Witnesses
For decades, the common misconception was there had been no witnesses to this double homicide. Yet, there were people living in the street who saw and heard things on the night Susan and Suzanne died and in the days that followed that could have proved significant. One was right next door. Police failed to interview any of them at the time.
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What Detectives Thought They Knew
From the start of this investigation, a chilling ‘coincidence’ focused attention almost exclusively on a local crime reporter as the chief ‘person of interest’. Twenty years later, DNA testing quickly cleared him of any involvement. What was missed in the meantime?
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DNA Down The Years
DNA tests exonerated all eight men on the detectives original list of suspects in this double murder. But how should DNA samples have been stored through the decades, to ensure their accuracy?
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Justice Delayed
Can a second Coroner’s inquest shine new light on what happened on that awful summer night in 1977?
Journalist Helen Thomas investigates.
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Customer Reviews
I remember the area and those murders.
Those days were different and people didn’t lock their back doors. We all had our opinions at the time about it. It was definitely someone they knew or knew of them who was engaged to do the murder or murders for a reason. Someone who disapproved of the lifestyle one of the Sues and the way they were living and the other Sue was perhaps collateral damage. A witness could not be left behind. That there were two men rather than one is not surprising. That more people didn’t hear or see something is. Sometimes the obvious clues staring police in the face are missed or overlooked for a reason. It is unlikely these murders will ever be solved.
This story is very haunting to this day.
We will get together for more hours tomorrow to
I’m not going back to the office to go back home and take care of the dogs in a little later but I’m still at my place in
Easley St
Fascinating podcast.
I was struck by one comment in ep 3 that 2 men in the vicinity of the crime were seen kissing each other on the cheek. This seems a Mediterranean thing to do and also between men an act of solidarity. Other sightings were of cordial engagements between the women and male visitors. This plus the absence of any sign of a break in suggests that they knew each other. Is it possible that this was an honour killing organised by the family of the child Gregory’s father in retaliation for Suzanne’s return to Australia and her turning her back on her child’s father’s family? Just a thought…..