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The Night the Vanishings Stopped: The Truro Silence of 1977
The Night the Vanishings Stopped: The Truro Silence of 1977
The quiet that follows sudden violence is worse than the noise: seven young women vanished from Adelaide between 23 Dec 1976 and 12 Feb 1977, then the disappearances stopped on a single day as if someone flipped a switch. Four of those women - Veronica Knight, Sylvia Pitman, Connie Jordan and Vicki Howell - were later found as remains in scrubland near Truro; why the killings began and why they ended remains the central mystery.
In this episode, I tell the sequence of disappearances, the slow discovery of remains in the bush north of…
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