0:00.0	It's Monday the 16th of August, 1982.
0:03.0	I was a detective senior constable at the Homicide Squad.
0:07.0	I was aged 27 at the time and fresh-faced.
0:12.0	It's about 3.30 in the afternoon, and we've received a call.
0:18.0	There's a motorcyclist riding along Summinton Road in Campbellfield.
0:28.6	The motorcyclist stops and he looks down.
0:32.6	There's a big pipe and then there's sort of a drain
0:35.6	and he sees the body of a female lying face down
0:40.3	naked. The body is down probably a metre and a half down off the top of the road and from
0:48.0	that he then contacts the police. I think back now she was someone's mother, she was someone's sister, and here she is
0:59.0	face down with horrific injuries.
1:04.7	She was just left here on the side of the road like a rag doll.
1:09.8	I think we got there around 5 o'clock.
1:13.5	So from a visual examination of the naked body of this lady,
1:19.2	we believe that she's aged somewhere between 40 and 50 years.
1:23.5	Her throat had been savagely cut.
1:25.3	It was bruising to her arms, bruising to her buttocks.
1:29.3	To me, it looked like she'd been tied up.
1:32.3	We were able to establish later on there was no evidence of any sexual assault.
1:37.3	At the end of the crime scene examination,
1:40.3	what we're confident to say is that she wasn't murdered there.
1:44.8	How do we know that?
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