In Karmein Chan 6 of our collaboration with Whoismrcruel.com on the story of the Karmein Chan abduction.
NB:- this podcast deals with topics of a serious nature. Sexual assault and murder are discussed.
This episode includes the following:-
- Premier Joan Kirner appeals to the offender to release Karmein.
- Police conduct Victoria Polices’s largest ever doorknocking campaign in Templestowe to seek information and receive some concerning information from residents nearby from a family with a 13 year old girl whose house was broken into.
- A local songwriter writes a song for Karmein and tells of her own experience of surviving an abduction attempt as a teenager.
- The story of a local boy who was followed by a stranger in the days before the abduction.
- PLC returns from school holidays.
- A Police public servant car is stolen from a home in the same area where the Lower Plenty attack occurred before it’s pursued by police and crashes into the Chan restaurant in Eltham
- Operation Spectrum is set up.
- Phyllis Chan writes a letter to the offender (published in a Melbourne newspaper), referring to him as ‘Mr Kind’, and appeals to him to release Karmein.
Lower Plenty Attack
The abduction of Sharon Wills
The abduction of Nicola Lynas
Please also read up on Jay’s website www.whoismrcruel.com for more information about this case.
NB: The use of copyright material in this podcast is for fair dealing for research purposes, for criticism and for reporting news. Melbourne Marvels is a non-profit blog/podcast that is researching the unsolved crimes of ‘Mr Cruel’.
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