Shortcut: Justice for Roslyn Reay
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.
In 2005, Roslyn Reay was tragically found deceased in her Cooks Hill home by her daughter Mandii after weeks of no contact.
Roslyn, a well-liked member of the Newcastle community, was a victim of a violent crime that has remained unresolved for nearly two decades.
Mandii joins us to share her story, reflecting on the loss of her mother and the renewed police investigation, including a $750,000 reward for information that could bring answers and justice.
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| 0:00.0 | All just a thing happening in the mind, you know, just a private joke that while we're having just maybe one cold, dark, rainy evening all by oneself. |
| 0:12.5 | It's doing this because you really want to and you've chosen to be together with a group of people because of a common love, you know, music, words, |
| 0:24.0 | people, you know, the three go together, you know, to make up songs. |
| 0:29.2 | You know, there's not a moment when we're not sort of concerned with what, you know, |
| 0:34.0 | like the other person's doing in a a constructive way, trying to help out? |
| 0:50.3 | That passionate young woman was Rosalind Ray, lead singer of Melbourne band The Editions, |
| 0:56.1 | and that's taken from a short documentary filmed in 1980 about the recording of their |
| 1:00.7 | tribute to Doctor Who. |
| 1:03.1 | By 2005, Rosalind had made a life for herself in Newcastle and was living in a townhouse |
| 1:08.8 | in the suburb of Cook's Hill when she suddenly |
| 1:11.5 | ceased contact with her daughter Mandy. |
| 1:14.6 | After two weeks without hearing from her mum, Mandy drove up from Sydney for a welfare |
| 1:19.3 | check. |
| 1:20.4 | What she discovered was that her mother had been brutally murdered in her home. |
| 1:25.6 | Rosalind Ray had been stabbed and strangled, |
| 1:28.6 | probably very soon after the last time she spoke to her daughter. |
| 1:33.1 | The cases remained unsolved since 2005, |
| 1:36.4 | but in 2021, a formal review was conducted by New South Wales Police |
| 1:40.7 | and they announced they would be rein-investigating the case. |
| 1:45.4 | Rosalind's daughter Mandy joins us on Australian True Crime to tell us about her mum |
| 1:49.8 | and to ask for help in solving her murder. |
| 1:53.7 | This is Australian True Crime. |
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