Shortcut: Nancy & Victoria: The Beaumaris Beach Mystery

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 15 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.

Two young female tourists are staying in the same quiet spot in Tasmania…one disappears, never to be seen again and two years later, the other woman is brutally murdered.

The women are 26-year-old German Nancy Grunwaldt, reported missing on April 15th 1993. Getting around on a bike, she was spending some time at Beaumaris Beach, reading a book. What happened after that is a mystery…so far. Nancy’s never been found but she was declared deceased by the coroner in 2003. Read the reports here: https://www.magistratescourt.tas.gov.au/about_us/coroners/coronialfindings/g/182_of_2004

Italian woman Victoria Cafasso who was 20, was found dead on 11 October 1995 on Beaumaris beach. She’d been stabbed numerous times and had been beaten. Victoria was staying in the tiny hamlet of Beaumaris with her cousin and had been there less than a week. Read the Coroners’ report here: https://www.magistratescourt.tas.gov.au/about_us/coroners/coronialfindings/c/2005_tascd_125_-_cafasso,_victoria_anna_elizabeth

Tasmanian journalist and author Melanie Calvert was on a trip back to her home state not long after Victoria’s murder. It’s haunted her ever since and she spent years researching and wrote a book Tasmania’s Beaumaris Beach Mystery: What Happened to Nancy and Victoria?

There’s been suspects for Victoria’s murder and could it be coincidence that Nancy disappeared from the same place? The initial police investigation into Victoria’s murder has come under scrutiny too.

Melanie’s book is Tasmania’s Beaumaris Beach Mystery: What Happened to Nancy and Victoria? And it’s available online. There’s details in the show notes for this episode.

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More information Melanie Calvert and where to buy her books can be found here: https://melaniecalvert.com/buy-freycinet/

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1:27.0	I was writing a novel and it was going to be about someone who went missing in Tazzie so I thought oh I'll research it and so I
1:36.0	researched it and then I was like what type thing and then you're like how can the police possibly try and say that these are not connected?
1:44.0	Two young female tourists are staying in the same quiet spot in Tasmania.
1:55.0	One disappears, never to be seen again.
1:58.3	And two years later, the other woman is brutally murdered. The women are 26 year old German Nazi Grumwalt's
2:07.0	reported missing on April 15 1993. Getting around on her bike, she was spending time at Bow Morris Beach, reading a book.
2:18.0	What happened after that is a mystery so far.
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