It's the 4th of July 1974 Kings Cross Sydney.

Eres Wannita Nielsen attends a meeting to discuss advertising for the

Carousel club in a newspaper called Now. She's never seen again and her body is

never found. Was it her opposition to development in the area or something else

she was about to expose? I'm your host Campbell. Grab a beer and pull up a deck chair. This is True Crime Island,

another true crime podcast. So who was Juanita Nielsen? Well, there used to be a Mark Foy's department store.

It was first started by Francis and Mark Foy

and they named it after their father Mark. It started trading in 1885 in Oxford Street, Sydney.

In 1999, they opened the impressive Liverpool Street store called the Piazza.

It was three stories, two floors plus a basement, with a turreted mansard roof taking up a whole city block.

According to Wikipedia, it was modeled on the Lebonne Marchi department store in Paris.

Remarkably, both buildings still exist in all their glory.

But ironically, as you will come to see, the Liverpool Mark Foyes has

now been converted into a courthouse known as the Downing Center, although the tile work and facade have been restored as it was

when it was the department store.

So Wenita was born Wenita Smith to a parent Neil Smith and Wilma Smith at New

Lampton, New South Wales, the 22nd of April 1937.

Neil was an English-born heir to the Mark Foy's retail fortune, via his parents John Smith and his

wife Kathleen Foy, who was sister to Mark and Francis Foy, the founder of the Mark

Foy's empire.

Juanita went to Ravenswood School for Girls at Gordon Sydney, which at the time was an elite Methodist

at Ladies College. She would work at Mark Foyes from 1953 until 1959 when she decided to travel overseas. In 1962 she married

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