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Frankston City is a local government area in Victoria, located 40 kilometres, 25 miles,

south east of Melbourne. It has a population of about 135,000 people. Frankston City captures

many different suburbs, including Frankston, Frankston North, Seaford, Languaren and others.

All of the places you'll hear in this story are part of that Frankston area.

We begin this story in Claude Street in the suburb of Seaford, February 1993. At the

unit of Donna Vaines, Donna had recently received a few prank calls and she was getting nervous.

She had a young baby and didn't like the idea of being alone at night. Her boyfriend

Les worked as a pizza delivery driver and she decided to spend the night driving around

in the car with him rather than stay home alone. As it turned out, Les only worked the

very short shift. They were back at Donna's unit in just over an hour.

It was lucky Donna didn't stay home alone that night. The first thing they saw when they

walked inside was Donna's cat on the lounge room floor. Dead. There was a picture of a naked

woman on top of the cat. The words Donna, your dead, were written in blood up on the wall.

In the bathroom were Donna's two kittens, both also dead. Shaving cream had been used

to ride on the bathroom mirror saying, Donna and Robin. The unit had been re-insacked,

drawers pulled out, cupboards opened, her things thrown everywhere. There were knife slash

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