The Australian Crime File by Paul B. Kidd

Author:Paul B. Kidd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-fiction, true crime, Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, South Australia, Claremont serial murders, Snowtown serial murders, lesbian vampire murder, the case of the walking corpse, the milkbar cowboy, horror houses, Reid-Luckman murder, sex goddess, Tasmania’s mad scientist, John Candy killer, Kingsgrove slasher, Ziggy Pohl, Bilal Skaf, Spit Bridge, Joe Borg, Harvey Jones, Eugenie Fellini, Stewart John Regan, Barlow and Chambers, the Beaumont children, backpacker murders, Belanglo State Forest, Ivan Milat, Squizzy Taylor, Bogle-Chandler mystery, Lennie Lawson, Darcy Dugan, Pyjama Girl murder, Truro murders, Juanita Nielsen, Rupert Stuart, Phar Lap, Lucy Dudko, John Killick, Brownout Strangler, Stolen Picasso, Hoddle Street Massacre, Mr Rent-a-Kill, murder, rape, theft, Barry Watts, Valmae Beck, Donald Mackay, Andrew Kalajzich, Megan Kalajzich, Milperra massacre, Martha Rendell, John Glover, John Wayne Glover, Helen Patricia Moore, Janine Balding, John Balaban, Ronald Ryan, the last man to hang, Paul Denyer, Linda Agostini, Maureen Thompson, Dr Rory Thompson, Christopher Worrell, James Miller, William MacDonald, the Mutilator, Michael Laurance, Alexander Pearce, Peter Macari, Leslie Allan Newcombe, Kevin Simmonds, Eddie Leonski, Edwin John Eastwood, Julian Knight, Martha Needle, Christopher Dale Flannery, Robert Joe Wagner, John Justin Bunting, Mark Haydon
ISBN: 9781743004487
Publisher: Five Mile Press
Published: 2012-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

>Author’s note: While Eric Turner has served more years than anyone else in the Australian prison system (his terms add up to more than 50 years – 22 years the first time, and from 1973 and still going), he does not hold the record for the longest consecutive (without a break) prison term.

That dubious honour belongs to William ‘the Mutilator’ MacDonald, who has been in jail since 13 May 1963 for the serial murders and mutilation of four men in Sydney in the early 1960s. Like Turner, MacDonald has been in prison so long he is considered ‘institutionalised’, and will never be released.

The previous longest-serving prisoner was Leonard Keith Lawson, who died in Grafton Gaol in November 2003. Lawson had been in jail for 42 years for the murders of two teenage girls in Sydney in November 1961.

Articles on Lennie Lawson and William MacDonald are in this book.

Barry Gordon Hadlow

On 24 November 1962, 5-year-old Sandra Dorothy Bacon was brutally murdered at Townsville, Queensland. The young child had been sexually assaulted before being strangled and stabbed to death with a hunting knife.

The youngest of five children, Sandra came from a working-class family. Uncles, grandparents, aunts and cousins all lived in the same neighbourhood. On weekends they would gather for lunch. It was while her grandparents were preparing a roast for such a meal that Sandra disappeared.

She was fetching her sister when 21-year-old labourer Barry Hadlow called her from the porch of a neighbouring house, where he had rented a room for the past three months. ‘I’m looking for my sister,’ the little girl replied. ‘Well, when you find her, could you give her these?’ Hadlow called back, holding out some comics.

Hadlow then lured Sandra into his bedroom. They were alone. He grabbed the little girl and started to undress her. He held a hand over her mouth while he sexually assaulted her, but panicked when she started to scream. Wrapping his hands around her tiny neck, he attempted to block her windpipe with his thumbs. He pressed as hard as he could but Sandra didn’t die. She lay motionless on the bed, still conscious. Hadlow then stabbed her through the heart with a hunting knife.

Police were called when Sandra didn’t return for lunch. A search party was organised. At one stage more than 300 volunteers were looking for the little girl. During the search, Hadlow approached the Bacons with some information. Sandra’s mother Eunice Bacon recalled, ‘I didn’t pay too much attention. I just thought it was nice of him to help out when he didn’t know us.’ Hadlow also spoke to the girl’s father, David Bacon. ‘I can sympathise with you,’ he told him. ‘Once my brother went missing for four days.’ Hadlow offered David his theories: Sandra may have fallen in the river and been eaten by sharks or she may have been snatched by a childless couple. He also had a third theory – that Sandra had been murdered and her body hidden in the boot of a car.

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