47 years ago on a warm summer night in Melbourne, Susan Bartlett and Suzanne Armstrong

were stabbed to death in their home in Easy Street, Collingwood.

Suzanne's 16-month-old son was asleep in his cot at the time.

To this day, the Easy Street murders is still one of Australia's most confronting cold cases.

No one has ever been charged and critical questions remain unanswered.

Journalist Helen Thomas has been investigating Susan and Suzanne's deaths for more than

a decade, initially for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's

background briefing program and then for her book, Murder on Easy Street.

Now Helen has delved into the case again for a brand new original podcast made for

case file presents. Search case file presents The Easy Street Murders wherever you get

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Stay tuned to the end of today's episode to hear the trailer. Our episodes deal with serious and often distressing incidents.

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warnings, please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website. Benjamin Amato's neighbors were worried.

52-year-old Ben lived alone and could often be seen coming and going from his home in Chestnut Hill Township in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains region.

But several days had passed with no sign of him.

It was now Thursday, November 15, 2001, and the last time he'd been seen was when he'd

stopped at a CVS pharmacy the previous Monday evening.

Stranger still, Ben's dogs have been left out on the wrap-around porch of his house.

This was completely unlike him.

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