Investigating a local celebrity

[alias_sqbr]

So tonight at 10:30 on 9 is a Crime Investigation episode about the Birnies, the serial killers who worked from my childhood suburb of Willagee. Awesome :)

Thanks to rescviki for the heads up!

Also: Persuasion 8:30 ABC. Two real time broadcast tv shows in a night, freaky!

I didn't hear about them at the time, despite them being arrested a year or so after we moved in (I was only six, though), and when a friend later told me about them to scare me I thought she was making it up. I didn't find out about them properly 'til I started going out with Cam and his mum was like "You lived in the serial killer suburb?!" :D

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Awww shucks

[rescviki.livejournal.com]

You're making me blush. Remember how I said CB was the reason Mum wouldn't let me use the Myer Garden City toilets on my own as CB tried to abduct a girl from there once? Found out something interesting earlier this year.

My Dad's medico mate was on holiday and Dad did his Canning Highway practice locum. The receptionist buzzed him one day and said "You're next patient has had to cancel. She's been arrested." The patient's name?

Catherine Birnie.

Re: Awww shucks

[loic.livejournal.com]

I worked there! I wonder which bathrooms. I love the Birnies - and serial killers in general.

Re: Awww shucks

[rescviki.livejournal.com]

The ladies *8) According to Mum she was in there and chloroformed a girl. Fortunately the girl's mother saw her going down the escalator with her.

When Sarah Spears disappeared I used to go out on to the balcony of Dad's Wellington St apartment and see camera crews up and down the street. Made me shudder. Paul Treasure went into shock one day because the taskforce phoned him up. If you were between 21-30 and a single white male they interviewed you.

Re: Awww shucks

[loic.livejournal.com]

I always thought Paul Treasure might have had a thing for blondes...