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Toyah Cordingley (Re-Release)

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

"Finding her body has burnt an indelible image in my mind. It is something a father should never have to suffer."

On the morning of 22 October 2018, family and friends of missing 24-year-old Toyah Cordingley would scour the area around Wangetti Beach, a quiet and secluded stretch of sand not too far away from Toyah's hometown of Cairns. There - partially buried in sand dunes - Toyah's body would be found, having endured "visible, violent injuries" before her death.

In the years since, police officials have remained tight-lipped about the specific details of their sprawling investigation. But it is believed that they have formulated a good case around the only named suspect, who fled the country just hours after Toyah's death...


This is a re-release of an older episode. Because of some expected updates in the case, I wanted to catch everyone up on the story before the next update episode.



Special thanks to Hysteria Magazine for letting us borrow the audio from their Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' 29th November 2018 show at The Triffid in Brisbane

Episode hosted, produced, and research/writing by Micheal Whelan

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Transcript

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0:00.0

In July of 2018, Australian actress and comedian Euritacy Dixon was raped and murdered.

0:15.6

She had been walking home from a performance at Melbourne's Highlander Bar on the evening

0:19.6

of June 13th, and was attacked

0:21.9

at Prince's Park that evening by 19-year-old James Todd, who was believed to have been stalking

0:27.7

her to this isolated location.

0:29.8

Dixon's body was found in the park the next day, starting a very high-profile investigation

0:35.0

into who had killed the up-and-coming comedic star. The culprit,

0:39.0

Todd, would turn himself into police after CCTV footage of his likeness was released to the

0:44.0

press, and he would plead guilty to this vile crime months later that November. He was later

0:49.4

sentenced to life in prison and is expected to serve at least 35 years before being eligible for parole.

0:56.1

While the crime itself was solved rather quickly, it attracted a lot of attention, not only

1:01.2

from the Australian press, but reporters from overseas, who were all horrified that someone

1:07.0

like Eurydice Dixon, a rising star that was just 22 years old at the time of her

1:11.7

death and was already making a mark on the world, could be killed so casually and cruelly

1:17.1

by someone that did not even know her.

1:19.4

One day after the murder, June 14, 2018.

1:23.8

Australian human rights advocate Con Carapano Geotides would publish a post on social media that read,

1:29.2

I could only imagine the rage and fear women feel to see women die doing mundane things like walking home,

1:36.2

only to then be told it's their fault and they need to be more careful.

1:41.1

Then, spaced out, as if to drive the point home, Con wrote, Stop Blaming Women, Make Men

1:47.5

the issue. This post would be shared by thousands of people throughout the world, including

1:53.7

a young woman living in Queensland, who shared the post on her Facebook page on June 17th.

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