EP104: The Wanda Beach Murders

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It was a squally Monday during their school break when 16-year-old Marianne Schmidt and her best friend, Christine Sharrock, hopped a train with Marianne's four younger siblings and headed from West Ryde, Australia, to Wanda Beach. As the younger children sat in the sand and listened to the radio, Marianne and Christine went for a walk. The next day their violated bodies were found in the sand dunes by a group of exploring children. Who raped and murdered Marianne and Christine? Was it the man seen at the beach wearing the corrugated iron mask or the pervert asking beachgoers to look at porno magazines with him? Find out why so many investigators now believe that Derek Percy, Australia's "Hannibal Lector" may be responsible for the crime.
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Sources:
1) The SnapShot Killer by Duncan McNab
2) Wanda: The Untold Story of the Wanda Beach Murders by Alan Whiticker
3) Unsolvedcasebook.com (The Wanda Beach Murders)
4) Findagrave.com (Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock)
5) National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (Wanda Beach Murders)
6) Wikiwand.com (The Wanda Beach Murders)
7) Casefiles Podcast (Episode 1: The Wanda Beach Murders)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature,
0:03.0	including descriptions of physical and sexual violence
0:06.0	against adults, children, and animals.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Hi, everyone, I'm Tlaia and I'm Tanya and together we are crimes and consequences a true crime
0:19.3	podcast. cast. Hey Tanya, hi Tanya.
0:38.6	Hi Telia.
0:39.8	Everything going well?
0:41.0	So far, so good.
0:42.4	Well, I have a pisser. Oh perfect and I'm
0:46.4	dedicating it to all of our Ossie fans. Oh it's an Australian case.
0:50.9	Yeah it is a story I read last year and I always wanted to write up but it seemed to somehow get distracted, but I did it and won't tell it. Are you ready?
1:01.0	Always. If you're from Australia and you're a true crime fan, you know all about Wanda Beach.
1:08.4	It was a Saturday, January 9th in 1965, and 16-year Marianne Schmidt and her 15 year old best friend
1:17.7	Christine Schrock. They planned a trip to Cronulla that That's an affluent beachside suburb known for its stretch of beautiful beaches in Sydney, Australia.
1:28.0	Oh, it sounds lovely. I wish I was there right now.
1:31.0	So for those of us who don't live in Australia, January is summer break for
1:37.0	kids, the opposite of what we're used to in the United States. On January 9th, both girls have visited Marianne's mother, Elizabeth.
1:46.7	Now, Elizabeth was in King George the 5th's hospital recovering from what I deemed to believe a pretty serious operation because she had quite
1:56.0	a long recovery. The two teens went and they visited Elizabeth and they asked if they could
2:02.0	go to the beach the next day.
2:05.0	Mary Ann even offered to take her four younger siblings with them.
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