The nine murders of women in similar circumstances in Sydney’s past are worthy of a Sherlock Holmes page-turner. Historian Elliot Lindsay thinks they may have been the work of one man.
The sordid details of nine murders of women in similar circumstances in Sydney’s past are worthy of a Sherlock Holmes page-turner. But the headlines such as “Similar revolting horrors recalled” and “Blood chilling violence” are real enough.
Lindsay will promulgate the theory on Saturday in a walking tour called Hyde Park, a Story of Lawless Beauty, as part of theHe thought that a gap after the first murder in 1915 could be explained by the perpetrator being sent away on military service. Lindsay said Hyde Park, Centennial Park and Prince Alfred Park were all considered red-light areas at the time.
“I don’t really try to prove that this was the work of one serial killer but what I do point out is that it could have been. We will never know because the investigations were never done properly but there are a lot of similarities between them. 3. Rebecca May Andersen, aged 50. May 17, 1924. A woman of “no class”. “Agonising screams of terror, of horror, of torture indescribable.” Body found next to Long Bay jail.5. Vera Stirling, aged 47. March 22, 1929. Woman of “no repute” murdered in Hyde Park with hands tied with silk stocking in a bow.
8. May Miller, aged 30. December 11 , 1932. Woman of no fixed abode found naked in Queens Park, Waverley. “Blood chilling violence”. Illustration showing police discovering the body of one of Jack the Ripper’s victims in London, late September 1888.“We are all amateur sleuths and the conclusion I came to is that the serial killer archetype is something I think we use for comfort because we want to believe it is a rare form of evil. It’s a rare human that’s capable of being wicked enough to perpetrate such heinous crimes.
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