Voices for Justice is a podcast that uses adult language and discusses sensitive and potentially triggering topics, including violence, abuse, and murder.

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purposes. Listener discretion is advised. My name is Sarah Turney, and this is Voices for Justice.

Today, I'm discussing the case of Rosemary Brown and Melissa Truzzle.

In the year 2000, in Adelaide, South Australia, a mother and her teenage daughter were last seen leaving their home at 2.30 in the morning.

We don't know why or what happened to them after that. What we do know is that one of them was

murdered and the other remains missing to this day. But thanks to a recent discovery just a few

weeks before recording this episode, rewards totaling over a million dollars and new technology,

investigators are more hopeful than ever that this case can and will be solved.

This is the case of Rosemary Brown and Melissa Truzzle.

It's Sunday, July 2, 2000, and siblings 10-year-old Sarah and 8-year-old James Vydok

are fishing with their father at Garden Island in northwest Adelaide, South Australia.

But like a lot of kids, they got bored pretty quickly, and they decided to move on to something more exciting, looking for rock crabs along the shore.

So they grabbed their buckets and began making their way through the dense mangroves when they stumbled upon something that would change the shore. So they grabbed their buckets and began making their way through the dense mangroves

when they stumbled upon something that would change the entire course of their lives. James was the

first to see her. A woman lying face down in the mud, clearly deceased. When Sarah got closer and

realized what her brother had found, she was terrified.

She said that her first thought was that the killer could still be around. So both kids run back

to their father who was still blissfully fishing to tell them about the horrific discovery.

He immediately packs up everything and drives them right to the Port Adelaide

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