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1970s murders in Australia

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The list 1970s murders in Australia includes James Beauregard-Smith, Shirley Finn, Christopher Dale Flannery, Truro murders and John Cribb. The list consists of 15 members and 9 sublists.

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Australia
Country in the Southern Hemisphere
  • 1.

    James Beauregard-Smith
    Australian, Criminal
    James Beauregard-Smith
    Overview: James George Beauregard-Smith (1943 – November 2024) was an Australian convicted rapist and murderer who served a life prison sentence. Originally from Sydney, he moved to South Australia in 1975.
    Date of birth: 1943
    Date of death: 28 November 2024
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: Australian
    Occupation: Criminal
    Gender: Male
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    1977 murders in Australia 6T
    1977 murders in Oceania 5T
    1970s in South Australia 9T
  • 2.

    Truro murders
    Series of murders in Truro, Australia
    Truro murders
    Overview: The Truro murders is the name given to a series of murders uncovered with the discovery in 1978 and 1979 of the remains of two young women in bushland east of the town of Truro in South Australia. After ...
    Date of birth: 2 February 1940
    Date of death: 19 February 1977
    Age: 37 (age at death)
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    1976 murders in Oceania 2T
    1977 murders in Oceania 5T
    1970s in South Australia 7T
  • 3.

    Crawford family murder
    1970 murder of the Crawford family in Australia
    Crawford family murder
    Overview: The Crawford family murder was the killing of pregnant mother Therese Crawford and her three children at their home in Glenroy, Victoria, Australia, in July 1970. The family car was located at the bottom ...
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    Filicides in Australia 11T
    1970 murders in Oceania 3T
    Mass murder in Australia 4T
  • 4.

    Easey Street murders
    1977 murder of two women in Collingwood, Australia
    Easey Street murders
    Overview: The Easey Street murders refer to the knife murders of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia, an inner suburb of Melbourne, in January 1977. Described as "Victoria’s ...
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    Shirley Finn
    Australian brothel madam and murder victim
    Overview: Shirley Finn was a brothel keeper of Perth, Western Australia. She was shot on 23 June 1975.
    Date of death: 1975
    Nationality: Australian
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    1975 murders in Oceania 4T
    1970s in Perth, Western Australia 3T
    1975 crimes in Australia 3T
  • 6.

    James Ryan O'Neill
    Convicted murderer
    Overview: James Ryan O'Neill (born Leigh Anthony Bridgart in 1947) is an Australian convicted murderer and suspected serial killer, currently serving a life sentence in Tasmania for a murder he committed in February ...
    Date of birth: 1947
    Age: 78
    Nationality: Australian
    Occupation: Criminal
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    1975 murders in Oceania 4T
    1975 crimes in Australia 3T
    Male serial killers 1,140T
  • 7.

    Florence Broadhurst
    Australian artist
    Florence Broadhurst
    Overview: Florence Maud Broadhurst (28 July 1899 – 15 October 1977) was an Australian painter and wallpaper and fabrics designer as well as a businesswoman. She was murdered in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, New ...
    Date of birth: 28 July 1899
    Date of death: 15 October 1977
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: Australian
    Occupation: Designer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century Australian women artists 301T
    1977 murders in Oceania 5T
    19th-century Australian women 435T
  • 8.

    Christopher Dale Flannery
    Australian contract killer (born 1948)
    Overview: Christopher Dale Flannery, nicknamed "Mr. Rent-a-Kill" (born 1948 – missing and believed murdered since 9 May 1985) is alleged to have been an Australian contract killer.
    Date of birth: 1948
    Date of death: 9 May 1985
    Age: 36 (age at death)
    Nationality: Australian
    Occupation: Criminal
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    1979 murders in Oceania 1T
    1985 murders in Oceania 2T
    1985 crimes in Australia 2T
  • 9.

    Donald Mackay (anti-drugs campaigner)
    20th-century Australian activist and murder victim
    Donald Mackay (anti-drugs campaigner)
    Overview: Donald Bruce Mackay (13 September 1933 – 15 July 1977) was an Australian anti-drugs campaigner who came to media attention and fame in 1977 through the circumstances of his murder.
    Date of birth: 13 September 1933
    Date of death: 15 July 1977
    Age: 43 (age at death)
    Nationality: Australian
    Occupation: Politician
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    1977 murders in Oceania 5T
    1977 crimes in Australia 6T
    Cannabis in Australia 4T
  • 10.

    Disappearance of Cheryl Grimmer
    1970 Australian unsolved kidnapping case
    Disappearance of Cheryl Grimmer
    Overview: Cheryl Gene Grimmer (1966 – disappeared 12 January 1970 and declared legally dead in 2011) was a three-year-old toddler who was kidnapped from Fairy Meadow Beach in Wollongong, Illawarra, New South Wales ...
    Date of birth: 1966
    Date of death: 12 January 1970
    Age: 3 (age at death)
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    Incidents of violence against girls 236T
    1970 murders in Oceania 2T
    Missing English children 13T
  • 11.

    Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing
    Terror attack in 1978 in Sydney, Australia
    Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing
    Overview: The Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing occurred on 13 February 1978, when a bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in George Street, Sydney, Australia. The hotel was hosting the first Commonwealth Heads of G ...
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    Murder of George Duncan
    Murder of an Australian man
    Overview: Dr. George Duncan (20 July 1930 – 10 May 1972) was an Australian law lecturer at the University of Adelaide who drowned in 1972 after being thrown into the River Torrens by a group of men believed to be ...
    Date of birth: 20 July 1930
    Date of death: 10 May 1972
    Age: 41 (age at death)
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    May 1972 events in Australia 2T
    Deaths by person in Australia 30T
    May 1972 events in Oceania 2T
  • 13.
    Overview: John Ernest Cribb is an Australian triple murderer from Sydney, New South Wales, currently serving three consecutive sentences of life imprisonment plus 45 years for the rape and murder of Valda Connell ...
    Date of birth: 5 August 1950
    Date of death: 21 February 2018
    Age: 67 (age at death)
    Nationality: Australian
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    1978 murders in Oceania 2T
    2018 deaths 9,212T
    2018 deaths 7,472T
  • 14.

    McCulkin murders
    1974 triple homicide
    Overview: The McCulkin murders were the murders of Barbara McCulkin (34) and her two daughters, Vicki (13) and Leanne (11), in Queensland in 1974.
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    Whiskey Au Go Go fire
    Fire in Australia
    Overview: The Whiskey Au Go Go fire was a fire that occurred at 2:08 am on Thursday 8 March 1973, in the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia that killed 15 people.
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