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06 NOV 1993
POLICE SEND QLD FILES TO BELANGLO TASK FORCE
By FIONA CHAPPELL
QUEENSLAND police have sent about 15 missing person
files to New South Wales investigators involved in the search for the
Belanglo State Forest serial killer.
The NSW task force has called for as many as 20 files of missing
people from three other states who could fit the pattern of the
backpacker victims.
Queensland criminolgist Paul Wilson believes it is the work of an
organised serial killer who could have killed outside NSW as well.
Professor Wilson, of Bond University, said if no more bodies were
found in the Belanglo State Forest it did not mean the killings had
stopped.
Det Insp Peter Pascoe of the Queensland homicide squad said there
had been no connection yet with the Queensland cases and the Belanglo
murders.
More than 4000 people disappear in Queensland each year. About 97
percent are found within three months. The other 3 percent _ about 120
people _ disappear without trace. Most are girls aged between 13 and
18.
The 15 Queensland files sent to NSW include those of five women
raped and killed by blows to the head with blunt instruments in the
mid-1970s. They were:
Gabriele Jahnke, 19, and Michelle Riley, 16, last seen hitch-hiking
to the Gold Coast from Brisbane in October 1973. Gabriele's body was
found at Ormeau a week later; Michelle's at Logan Village a further 10
days later.
Brisbane trainee nurses Lorraine Wilson, 20, and Wendy Evans, 18, who
were hitch-hiking to Goondiwindi in 1974. In 1976, their skeletons were
found in bush at Murphy's Creek, near the foot of the Toowoomba Range.
Margaret Rosewarne, 19, who was hitch-hiking from Surfers to Burleigh
Heads on May 5, 1976. Her body was found at west Burleigh 16 days
later.
Also sent to the NSW taskforce were the
files on Tony Jones, 20,
who disappeared hitch-hiking to Mt Isa on November 3, 1982; Kahl
Eckhard, 23, from Germany, who left Sydney to hitch-hike to Brisbane in
1988 but never made it; Naoka Onda, 22, from Japan, last seen on the
Sunshine Coast hitch-hiking north in 1988; Edward Ford, 20, who was
hitch-hiking from Melbourne to Cairns in January 1991 and went missing
after leaving a Melbourne hostel; and Steven Campbell, 29, who
disappeared in December 1991 in Mt Lindsay National Park, near
Beaudesert.
The files also include students Chad, 16, and Melanie, 14, Sutton,
who left home to attend an Inala school a year ago and never returned;
Julie-Ann Gallon, 27, who vanished in August, 1990, after her car broke
down outside Brisbane; and Robin Hoinville-Bartram, 18, and Anita
Cunningham, 19, who disappeared in 1972 from Coolangatta. Robin's body
was found at Charters Towers. Anita has not been found.
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For more on the disappearance of Tony's
great-grandfather see The
Geddes Mystery
