By Vikki Petraitis
When 23-year-old Beth Barnard used to be chanced on brutally murdered in a farmhouse in Phillip Island in 1986, her homicide sparked an research that has haunted locals ever due to the fact that. Her throat used to be lower, and she or he had an incredible letter A carved into her chest. at the comparable evening that Beth died, one other neighborhood lady, Vivienne Cameron, vanished off the face of the earth. A police research published that Beth were having an affair with Vivienne's husband. What relatively occurred that evening is still one in every of Victoria's so much baffling homicide mysteries.
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A short while after that, Fergus explained that he'd come home in the early hours of the morning from a Christmas party at Beth's. He said that Vivienne had attacked him, punching him in the face and back. Despite Beth's resolve to leave the Penguin Parade job and the job at the Cameron farm, Fergus said that the pull of their relationship was stronger and she was soon back working at both jobs. He said that Vivienne had questioned the wisdom of having Beth working on the farm. The tension between Vivienne and Fergus culminated in a fight around shearing time.
I asked the experts. They didn't really know. They thought it was a fishing knife. You had the double hole which you can start thinking of all sorts of knives... it penetrates making two holes. But other people who are much more experienced than I am said that you can get a hit with a knife and another sort of jab... it really didn't go anywhere. ' Homicide and local detectives interviewed as many people as they could find who might have input into Beth's murder and Vivienne's disappearance. Their enquiries turned up a couple of interesting facts.
He admitted having sex with her on the Sunday night, but not the Monday night. Fergus left Beth promising to visit again the next morning. When he got home, he found Viv sitting at their kitchen table with his sister, Marnie. He described Marnie as being 'very agitated' and Vivienne was 'visibly trembling'. Apparently, the two women had rung the Penguin Parade looking for him at 8pm only to be told that he'd left for the night. ' 'I just said, "I've been talking to Beth". She then raced at me with the glass of wine and screamed, "I knew you were with the little bitch".