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Casefile True Crime

Case 263: Kim Barry

Casefile True Crime

Casefile Presents

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.741.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

When Brian and Beverly Barry returned from a weekend away to discover their 19-year-old daughter Kim was gone, they initially assumed she was out with friends. Then news broke that a body had been found in some bushland south of their home in Wollongong, New South Wales, and it wasn’t long before the truth came out...

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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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0:00.0

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0:05.8

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0:12.4

is an investigation into his wife's murdered great-grandmother, Naomi Dancy. Was the culprit

0:19.0

actually Naomi's husband, the patriarch of the family? Tristian is determined to find

0:25.3

out. Growing up, weird things would happen in Tristian's room, and anyone who had his

0:31.3

room since felt them too. Although Tristian was not a believer in ghosts, when subsequent

0:37.9

occupants of the home claimed to be visited by the ghost of a faceless woman, Tristian

0:43.2

had to take notice. Because it just so happened that the house next door to where Tristian

0:49.8

grew up was the home of his wife's great-grandmother, Naomi Dancy, and she was murdered by two gunshots

0:57.5

to the face. So, could the faceless woman ghost be his wife's murdered great-grandmother?

1:05.8

You'll have to tune in to find out. Ghost Story is a podcast about family secrets

1:11.8

overwhelming coincidence and the things that come back to haunt us. Follow Ghost Story

1:17.9

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1:36.7

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1:42.0

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1:47.6

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1:52.9

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2:02.4

On Friday, February 6, 1981, married couple Brian and Beverly Barry left their home in

2:08.6

the Wollongong suburb of Mount Pleasant. They were headed north on a six and a half hour

2:14.3

drive to their holiday home in the coastal New South Wales town of Sortel. They weren't

2:20.5

planning to stay away for long. Brian and Beverly had received a letter from the local

2:25.9

council in Sortel informing them that their properties lawn was overgrown and they risked receiving

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