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Australian True Crime

Who Murdered Gina Rossato?

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6979 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Our story today revolves around an unsolved murder case originally investigated by legendary former Victorian Homicide Detective, Ron Iddles.


The victim of that crime was 48 year old Gina Rossato. Her niece, Marisa D'Agostino, joins us on Australian True Crime to talk about the case.


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CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie

Guests: Marisa D'Agostino

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

This episode contains extra content from Homicide: With Ron Iddles


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0:00.0

I've investigated many homicides.

0:02.0

There's one case which still haunts me.

0:05.0

It's a case I went to in 1982.

0:09.0

It still remains unsolved today.

0:13.0

I still have an interest in it.

0:17.0

I've followed it all the way through up until now.

0:21.6

It's Monday the 16th of August, 1982.

0:24.6

I was a detective senior constable at the Homicide Squad.

0:28.6

I was aged 27 at the time and fresh-faced.

0:33.6

It's about 3.30 in the afternoon and we've received a call.

0:40.3

There's a motorcyclist riding along Summinton Road in Campbellfield.

0:46.3

The motorcyclist stops and he looks down it.

0:53.3

There's a big pipe and then there's sort of a drain. The motorcyclist stops and he looks down.

0:57.3

There's a big pipe and then there's sort of a drain and he sees the body of a female lying face down naked.

1:03.8

The body is down probably a metre and a half

1:07.6

down off the top of the road

1:09.3

and from that he then contacts the police.

1:13.6

I think back now she was someone's mother, she was someone's sister and here she is faced

1:21.2

down with horrific injuries.

1:26.5

She was just left here on the side of the road like a rag doll.

1:30.3

I think we got there around five o'clock.

1:34.3

So from a visual examination of the naked body of this lady,

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