The Woman Who Dressed As Anita Cobby

True Crime Conversations · Sep 23, 2020 · 49m

It was a summer night in 1986 when 26-year-old Anita Cobby met friends for dinner in Redfern. Afterwards, the registered nurse caught the train from Central Station at 8:48pm, and arrived at Blacktown station just before 10pm. Usually, Anita would call her father at the station and he would pick her up, but this night all the surrounding pay phones happened to be out of order. There were also no taxis available at the taxi rank. It was a beautiful, clear night and Anita decided to walk home. It was 10pm when a gang of five men pulled up beside Anita in a stolen car, grabbed her, and dragged…