SEX CRIMES
BODIES OF VICTIMS FOUND IN MELBOURNE.
(Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) y MELBOURNE, May 19.
A wave of sex crime which has been sweeping this city culminated today in the finding of the body of a semi-nude young woman secreted in an air-raid trench in the Royal Park, North Melbourne. The victim had been strangled and probably outraged. The bodies of two other women, practically stripped of clothing, were found on May 3 and 9 in other parts of the city. They had been done to death in similar circumstances. The crimes have created one of the most baffling problems for the police and become a matter of consternation among citizens. ______
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1942, Page 3
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112SEX CRIMES Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1942, Page 3
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