Peter Hiscock said the arrest of a suspect at an airport in Rome was a great relief: “I thought I would go to my grave with the case unsolved.”
Peter Hiscock was a 30-year-old senior detective in the homicide squad when he got the call to attend a murder in Easey Street, Collingwood.The 1977 murders of Susan Bartlett and Suzanne Armstrong in Easey Street, Collingwood shocked Melbourne.Hiscock and his colleague Graeme McDonald walked in through the unlocked front door.The Sunday AgeSusan Bartlett’s body was near the front door. The 28-year-old had been stabbed more than 50 times.
In a bedroom was Suzanne Armstrong, 27. She had been stabbed almost 30 times – in three wounds to the heart – and raped.“At the post-mortem I had to count every single wound and record them. It was graphic and traumatic for a 30-year-old, but I knew it had to be done,” Hiscock said.The killer had tried to clean the crime scene, but it was impossible. There was just too much blood.Later, forensic examination showed the killer had taken a shower while the victims lay on the floor.
The man who has been arrested in Rome was checked near Easey Street at the time of the murders, when he was a teenager. He was carrying a knife but was released. The murder scene was not discovered for a further three days.“The Kane brothers were driving around in a car, knocking over Greek traders riding on their bicycles to rob them, and so they were carrying knives for protection.”
Hiscock said the fresh investigators would have had to find police documents from the time that recorded stopping the teenager near the scene.John Silvester lifts the lid on Australia’s criminal underworld.
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