Lesley Larkin's family feels like time is running out to catch her killer as the 40th anniversary of her violent Noosa death approaches.
A photograph of Juanita Wotherspoon sitting in Lesley Larkin 's lap is one of few remaining images of the siblings together.She was 10 when her sister was murdered in a Queensland coastal town — a moment also frozen in time."I have very vivid memories of my mother being in absolute despair."Four decades on, she is leading the push for answers.
On November 9, 1984, the yoga instructor was found by a neighbour in her Kareela Avenue unit — naked and badly beaten.She died in hospital a day later."She didn't want it to be her of course … I can remember my mother saying that she had to look at her feet and other areas of her body to be able to identify her," Juanita said.
"Getting her yoga practice going was really important for her, the gym and fitness, and that was something we shared."It had been a place where nobody locked their doors.She found out about Lesley's death through a friend. Mr Welsh had owned a restaurant, and a coronial inquest in 1986 heard he had gone to Lesley's unit to discuss a job opportunity on the night she was attacked.
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