The infamous killings saw a young mother murdered and her toddler’s body dumped in a suitcase.
Daniel Holdom was convicted of the cold case killings of Karlie Jade Pearce‑Stevenson, 20, and her two‑year‑old daughter Khandalyce Kiara Pearce eight years ago. Download today The pair vanished in 2006 after leaving Alice Springs with Holdom, Karlie’s boyfriend of just two months.
They were last seen in South Australia in 2008 and reported missing the following year. Karlie was sexually assaulted and murdered in the Belanglo State Forest in NSW — the same forest linked to serial killer Ivan Milat. Double murderer Daniel Holdom’s appeal has failed. Karlie Jade Pearce‑Stevenson, 20, and her two‑year‑old daughter Khandalyce Kiara Pearce.
After Holdom killed Khandalyce, he placed the toddler’s body in a suitcase and dumped it beside a remote highway near Wynarka in South Australia. The battered suitcase was found in 2015, sparking a nationwide cold‑case investigation that eventually linked the child to Karlie. Holdom was arrested in the Hunter Valley and sentenced to life behind bars for both murders in 2018. A judge shot that down, noting the “extreme” and “serious” nature of his crimes.
Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her two-year-old daughter Khandalyce Pearce were murdered in 2008.
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