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Casefile True Crime

317: Case 271: Bonnie Clarke

Casefile True Crime

Casefile Presents

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.741.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

*** Child victim, child sexual assault, sexual assault/rape ***
When six-year-old Bonnie Clarke is murdered in her bed in the middle of the night just four nights before Christmas in 1982, Melbourne detectives are certain they know who’s responsible: Bonnie’s mother, Marion.

Yet Marion insists an intruder must have broken into their home while she was sleeping. It would take 20 years, two other crimes, and an undercover investigation for the truth to unravel…

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Narration – Anonymous Host
Research & writing – Erin Munro
Creative direction – Milly Raso
Production and music – Mike Migas
Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn

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0:59.4

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1:05.2

Today's episode involves crimes against children and won't be suitable for all

1:10.4

listeners. At about 740 on the morning of Tuesday, December 21, 1982, Frank Church headed out of his home in Westbourne Grove, Northcott and walked

1:25.2

towards the front gate. The rubbish bience had gone out for collection the previous

1:29.9

night and Frank was going to bring his empty one in.

1:34.0

As Frank exited his front gate, he noticed his next door neighbor, Marion, standing on the foot

1:39.2

path outside of her home.

1:41.0

While Frank had resided on Westbourne Grove for the past 27 years,

1:46.4

Marion and her six-year-old daughter Bonnie were relative newcomers.

1:50.9

They'd moved into the Inner City Melbourne Street about two years ago.

1:54.7

Although their Victorian terrace houses sat quite close to each other,

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