In 1986, Sydney nurse Anita Cobby was abducted and murdered after a sexual assault, followed two years later by the abduction, sexual assault and murder of Janine Balding after she was taken from Sutherland train station.
In the aftermath, the New South Wales government introduced laws that ensured…In 1986, Sydney nurse Anita Cobby was abducted and murdered after a sexual assault, followed two years later by the abduction, sexual assault and murder of Janine Balding after she was taken from Sutherland train station.
In the aftermath, the New South Wales government introduced laws that ensured the teenage offenders would spend their lives in prison with no chance of parole.
Criminal lawyer and former NSW MP Peter Breen joins Australian True Crime to argue those laws were deeply flawed and that some of the men convicted may have been innocent.
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As Anita Cobby made her way home from work on the 2nd of February 1986, she was ready to unwind for the evening. Within moments, everything would change. The events of the next few hours would disgust and horrify Australia in a case of such brutality, it was hard to even comprehend.
This episode wa…As Anita Cobby made her way home from work on the 2nd of February 1986, she was ready to unwind for the evening. Within moments, everything would change. The events of the next few hours would disgust and horrify Australia in a case of such brutality, it was hard to even comprehend.
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The night of February 2nd 1986 was when 26 year old Sydney nurse Anita Cobby was savagely murdered by a group of strangers. It has since been marked a turning point for Australian culture.
Today's conversation is with Anita's sister, Kathryn Szyszka. It's all about legacy - Anita's legacy, and the …The night of February 2nd 1986 was when 26 year old Sydney nurse Anita Cobby was savagely murdered by a group of strangers. It has since been marked a turning point for Australian culture.
Today's conversation is with Anita's sister, Kathryn Szyszka. It's all about legacy - Anita's legacy, and the legacy of their parents, Grace and Garry Lynch.
A new facility has finally opened in Sydney to provide healing and restoration for children affected by violent crime.
It's called Grace's Place, and has been made in honour of Grace Lynch. Kathryn is now the carrier of the flame for her family who've created an amazing legacy in Anita's name.
More information on Grace's Place can be found here: https://gracesplace.org.au/
26 year old Anita Cobby, a beautiful, kind, loving nurse, was abducted and brutally murdered in Blacktown, Australia in 1986.
Her family created the Homicide Victims’ Support Group (https://www.hvsgnsw.org.au/) and her sister started Grace’s Place (https://gracesplace.org.au/) to support those impa…26 year old Anita Cobby, a beautiful, kind, loving nurse, was abducted and brutally murdered in Blacktown, Australia in 1986.
Her family created the Homicide Victims’ Support Group (https://www.hvsgnsw.org.au/) and her sister started Grace’s Place (https://gracesplace.org.au/) to support those impacted by homicide.
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True Crime Conversations explores the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. This month we’re focusing in on Australia’s most notorious crimes...
It’s the morning of February 6, 1986.
Australia as a nation, but more specifically New South Wales, is i…True Crime Conversations explores the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. This month we’re focusing in on Australia’s most notorious crimes...
It’s the morning of February 6, 1986.
Australia as a nation, but more specifically New South Wales, is in a state of shock.
Two days prior, the body of 26 year old nurse Anita Cobby had been found in a paddock in Prospect, 32 kilometres west of Sydney’s CBD. The news had broken that Anita had been murdered.
But on the 6th of February, a morning radio host named John Laws obtained a leaked copy of the young woman’s autopsy report. All morning, he said, he considered whether or not to broadcast the details. He ultimately decided to.
Laws shared explicit details about Anita Cobby’s injuries and the nature of her death, as Sydney siders drove to work or as they dropped their children at school. For a generation, those details would be imprinted on their psyche - a woman murdered in a manner beyond what any of us could ever imagine.
The events of February 2, the night Anita was murdered by strangers, has come to be understood as the most savage murder this state has ever known.
When her killers were sentenced Justice Alan Maxwell described their crime as, "One of the most horrifying physical and sexual assaults. This was a calculated killing done in cold blood.”
It remains a crime Australia won’t ever forget.
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It was a summer night in 1986 when 26-year-old Anita Cobby met friends for dinner in Redfern.
Afterwards, the registered nurse caught the train from Central Station at 8:48pm, and arrived at Blacktown station just before 10pm.
Usually, Anita would call her father at the station and he would pick…It was a summer night in 1986 when 26-year-old Anita Cobby met friends for dinner in Redfern.
Afterwards, the registered nurse caught the train from Central Station at 8:48pm, and arrived at Blacktown station just before 10pm.
Usually, Anita would call her father at the station and he would pick her up, but this night all the surrounding pay phones happened to be out of order. There were also no taxis available at the taxi rank. It was a beautiful, clear night and Anita decided to walk home.
It was 10pm when a gang of five men pulled up beside Anita in a stolen car, grabbed her, and dragged her into the vehicle kicking and screaming. A number of witnesses on Newton Road in Blacktown heard the voice of a distressed young woman and called the police.
It was the next day that the naked body of a young woman was found in a paddock at Prospect in Western Sydney. Police identified her as Anita Cobby.
One of the women working at Blacktown police station at the time was Deborah Wallace. She was around the same age as Anita, and similar in appearance. The lead detective would choose to do something unconventional in order to find who was responsible for one of the most horrific murders in NSW history. His approach would work, and ultimately it would change the course of Deborah’s career.
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Gary Raymond worked some of the highest profile and most challenging cases in NSW policing in living memory, including the brutal abduction and murder of Anita Cobby and the drive-by shooting of 5-year-old Tess Debrincat. He was also deployed ...
On the morning of February 4 1986, a dairy farmer in the outer Sydney suburb of Prospect noticed his cows had been behaving strangely. For hours, they had stood gathered at one particular spot in his paddock. The farmer went to see what they were doing and found the brutalised body of 26-year-old nu…On the morning of February 4 1986, a dairy farmer in the outer Sydney suburb of Prospect noticed his cows had been behaving strangely. For hours, they had stood gathered at one particular spot in his paddock. The farmer went to see what they were doing and found the brutalised body of 26-year-old nurse Anita Cobby.
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