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Casefile True Crime

Case 01: The Wanda Beach Murders

Casefile True Crime

Casefile Presents

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.741.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On the 11th of January 1965, two fifteen-year-old schoolgirls Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt were found murdered in the Wanda sand hills, just north of Cronulla Beach in Sydney's south.

The crime remains one of the most horrific Australia has ever seen. Despite an exhaustive police investigation, the killer remains unknown…

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On the 12th of January 1965, Mary and Schmidt and Christine Sharrick, both age 15, were

0:48.0

if you are murdered on a desolate, isolated stretch of beach just north of Pinala, south

0:51.9

of Sydney. The case would come to be known as the Wanda Beach murders. One mention of

0:57.3

the word Wanda is enough to send tools down the spine of those who remember the case

1:00.6

that dominated the television reports, radio airwaves and print media over the day.

1:06.1

The killing spark won the biggest meeting on Australia's ever seen. The police file

1:09.9

on the cases over 10,000 pages long, and over 14,000 people have been interviewed. Police

1:15.9

efforts to solve the case have been described as exhaustive and leads have been followed

1:19.4

up all around Australia. Despite the best efforts of police

1:23.3

and notarages have ever been laid, the case remains unsolved to this day. The Wanda case

1:29.0

contains many more questions than answers. What drew Mary and Christine to the Wanda

1:33.9

sandhills that day? Had they prearranged to meet someone, were they just in the wrong

1:37.7

place at the wrong time? Speculation in many different theories have surrendered the case

1:42.5

since day one. Only one thing is clear. Abyssal and Ruthless Killer has never been brought

1:49.0

to justice.

2:13.5

This is my family migrated to Australia from Germany in 1958. Along with Mary and their

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