A retrial was called off when he was declared senile and he died a year later in 2002
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Serial paedophile Arthur Stanley Brown was eventually tried for the murders but it resulted in a hung jury. In 1998, a victim of serial paedophile Arthur Stanley Brown came forward with her suspicions as police were conducting a cold case review. 'Get up on the seat and go to sleep,' the man snapped back.Īnother witness, Neil Lunney, said he confronted a man who cut him off in traffic and saw two girls in school uniform inside the car.īoth accounts were dismissed by police who, along with the media, were convinced the car was a Holden. 'Are we there yet?' she asked the man, before Judith inquired 'when are you going to take us to mummy? You promised you were going to take us to mummy.' Petrol station worker Jean Thwaite said she saw Susan in the car as she filled it up for an adult male driver, with her eyes red like she'd been crying.
Police offered a $10,000 reward and two witnesses reported seeing a blue Vauxhall Victor with the girls in it but others said it was a Holden.
He died of a heart attack after two weeks. Locals were so outraged that one detective vowed not to go home until the killer was caught and worked day and night at the police station with his wife bringing him food. Their school uniforms were found neatly folded in their schoolbags and their straw hats and shoes, with socks folded inside, laying beside them. Two days later their bodies were foundīoth girls were raped and stabbed three times in the chest, but Judith was still alive when she was buried and choked to death on the sand. Judith, 7 and Susan, 5, Mackay disappeared from a bus stop near Townsville and were reported missing when they didn't come home after school. Susan was found first before a trail of footprints led searchers 70m to Judith's body, leading to speculation that she tried to flee after her sister was killed. Judith, 7 and Susan, 5, disappeared from a bus stop near Townsville and were reported missing when they didn't come home after school.Īfter a two-day search their bodies were found in a dry creek bed about 25km southwest of Townsville. 'Was he in jail, did he go to ground, or is he still out there waiting for the next victim?' But if the same person did these completely random killings, why stop?' he said in 2014. 'It is a lonely abandoned road in the middle of nowhere. Others such as Mark Jones, whose brother Tony vanished in 1982, believe at least one serial killer could be operating along the road. Some call the highway Australia's real-life Wolf Creek. With so many unsolved cases, wild theories run rampant including that convicted serial killer Ivan Milat could have been involved. Only two people were ever charged for any of the murders: one dying before he could stand a retrial and the other case ongoing. There were many other cases on the 'highway of death' before Mr Penno-Tompsett's disappearance, dating back to 1970.Īll the others are either confirmed dead, or were declared to be deceased by inquests years after their bodies were never found. And those people have not spoken to police,' Mr Gamble said. 'There's people in Charters Towers who have made very serious allegations about certain people in Charters Towers that may have been involved in Jayden's disappearance. Ken Gamble, the investigator she hired with help from crowd funding, says he believes 'There's every possibility there could be a serial killer up here'. 'I believe (it was a) drug deal gone wrong.
There were threats sent to Jayden, Jayden wasn't behaving normal, he was acting very scared,' Ms Penno said. 'I found out afterwards, there was a lot of stuff going down. She has made many trips to the area, knocked on doors and hired a private investigator.
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