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Casefile Presents: The Easey Street Murders

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Casefile Presents

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.741.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

47 years ago, on a warm summer’s night in Melbourne, Susan Bartlett and Suzanne Armstrong were stabbed to death in their home in Easey Street, Collingwood. Suzanne’s 16 month-old son was asleep in his cot at the time.

The double homicide left the community shocked and detectives rattled, as several promising early leads gradually petered out. Eventually, the case went cold.

To this day, the Easey Street murders is still one of Australia’s most confronting cold cases: a frenzied crime shadowed by strange twists of fact and fate. A million-dollar reward for information has failed to lead to an arrest, no one has ever been charged, and critical questions remain unanswered. Did the young women know their killer, or did they die in a brutal, random attack? Why has their murderer never been found?

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 programme and then for her book, Murder On Easey Street. Now Helen has delved into the case again for a brand new, original podcast made for Casefile Presents.

In Casefile Presents: The Easey Street Murders, Helen explores the crime and the investigation that followed. She speaks with the young women’s family and friends, potential witnesses living in Easey Street who were never interviewed by detectives – and the retired police who were first at the crime scene in January, 1977 and remained haunted by it even now.

Want to hear more? Search for ‘Casefile Presents: The Easey Street Murders’ in your podcast app. Or binge the entire series for free, exclusively on the iHeartRadio app.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-casefile-presents-easey-street-149620564/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. 47 years ago on a warm summer's night in Melbourne, Susan Bartlett and Suzanne Armstrong

0:25.7

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

0:29.8

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

0:34.6

The double homicide left the community shocked and detectives rattled, as several

0:39.2

promising early leads gradually peated out.

0:42.4

Eventually, the case went cold. To this day the

0:46.8

Easy Street murders is still one of Australia's most confronting cold cases. A

0:51.8

frenzied crime shadowed by strange twists of facts and fate.

0:56.5

A million dollar reward for information has failed to lead to an arrest.

1:00.8

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

1:06.4

Did the young women know their killer or did they die in a brutal random attack?

1:12.0

Why has their murderer never been found?

1:14.8

Journalist Helen Thomas has been investigating Susan and

1:18.8

Suzanne's deaths for more than a decade, initially for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's background briefing

1:25.4

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

1:30.3

Now Helen has delved into the case again for a brand new original podcast made for Case File Presents.

1:37.0

In Case File Presents, The Easy Street Murders, Helen explores the crime and the investigation that followed.

1:44.9

She speaks with the young women's family and friends, potential witnesses living

1:49.3

in Easy Street who were never interviewed by detectives, and at the retired police who were first

1:54.7

at the crime scene in January 1977 and remain haunted by it even now.

2:02.3

Search Case File presents the Easy Street murders wherever you get your podcasts,

2:07.0

or binge the entire series for free on the IHeartRadio app.

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