Linda Agostini
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Linda Agostini (12 September 1905 - 27 August 1934) was identified as the "Pyjama Girl" victim found on a stretch of road in Albury between Sydney and Melbourne in the September of 1934. The murder intrigued the Australian people and the unidentified corpse, (found to match the description of missing Linda Agostini in 1944), became the macabre obsession of thousands.
[edit] Life
Linda Agostini was born Florence Linda Platt in Forest Hill, a suburb of London, on 12 September 1905. As a teenager, Platt worked at a confectionery store in Surrey before travelling to New Zealand at the age of 19 after what was rumoured to be a broken romance. Platt remained in New Zealand until 1927 when she moved to Australia to live in Sydney.[1] Here, the penniless glamour girl worked at a picture theatre in the city and lived in a boarding house on Darlinghurst Road in Kings Cross where all accounts tell she "entertained" more than her fair share of young, attractive men. Platt was a heavy drinker and a flighty Jazz Age party-goer who had difficulty adjusting to stability. Her marriage to Italian-born Antonio Agostini in a Sydney registry office during 1930 was the beginning of a very unhappy marriage that would see the couple leave for Melbourne to remove Linda from the influence of her Sydney friends. They settled in Carlton.
[edit] Murder investigation
The unhappy Mrs Agostini disappeared from friends and family around a week before the unidentified "Pyjama Girl" was found in Albury, on the border (of New South Wales and Victoria). Amended dental records and suspicious testimonies seemed to conveniently "surface" in 1944 to assert that the dead woman found a decade earlier was Mrs. Linda Agostini. The identification came just as public confidence in the New South Wales Police Force began to wane at their failure to catch the decade's most prolific killer and the circumstances under which Antonio Agostini "confessed" to killing his wife in their Melbourne townhouse are still very dubious today.
Contemporary belief is that Linda Agostini was murdered around the same time as the Albury victim, and most likely in the confines of the couple’s Melbourne townhouse, however it is commonly accepted that Mrs. Agostini’s remains were never uncovered.
[edit] References
- ^ Pennay, Bruce. Agostini, Linda (1905 - 1934). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
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| NAME | Agostini, Linda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Platt, Florence Linda |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Australian murder victim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12 September 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Forest Hill, London |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1934 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Carlton, Victoria |
