For six years this masthead has agreed to keep the breakthrough secret to avoid alerting the suspect.
was identified through a DNA test when police undertook to check the 131 people listed in the original police file in the murders of housemates Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett, who were stabbed to death in their rented Collingwood home.
In January 2017, police announced they would test 90 living and 41 dead people connected to the file. Three days after the 1977 attack neighbours found the bodies. Armstrong was on the floor in her bedroom. She’d been stabbed 27 times, with three wounds piercing her heart. She was also raped. Arts teacher Bartlett was found near the front door. She had been stabbed 55 times. Defensive wounds on her hands and arms indicated she had tried to defend herself before she was overwhelmed.
Armstrong had returned from Greece just months earlier. She had a baby son to a fisherman in the Greek Islands. The baby, Greg, was found severely dehydrated when the bodies were discovered on January 13, 1977. In 2017, the homicide squad announced a $1 million reward and plans to test the DNA of all persons of interest: 90 of them living and 41 who had since died.
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