Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories, and leave out unnecessary

details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand the frustration of why and how

this ever happened.

However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you.

Listener, discretion is advised.

This week's story is a listener's suggestion.

Thank you to Jessica for bringing Marilyn's story to my attention.

Cold case stories, especially from Australia, really interest me.

The Beaumont children, the Adelaide Oval Abductions, Mr. Krill, Judith and Susan

McCain, that will bring up in today's story,

and I really want to cover as well sometime in the near future. But I find myself getting lost

looking into these stories and watching documentaries, hoping to figure out the missing piece.

Any child death is heartbreaking, but no parent should go lifetimes without receiving justice for their

child or children's murders. March 1972, North Queensland, Australia, for 10-year-old Marilyn

Warman left on her bike for the short trip to the bus stop, excited for the sports carnival to be

held that day. However, only minutes later, her younger brothers would find her bike abandoned with the front wheel still spinning.

This would result in Queensland's longest running cold case with only a fragment of Marilyn's skull ever found.

And more than 50 years later, we still don't know what happened to Marilyn, who was responsible for her death.

This is Marilyn's story.

Marilyn Joy Warman was born March 6, 1958, in North Mackay, Queensland to parent John and

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