Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon
The Sunday Mail's front page on the day after Ratcliffe and Gordon disappeared
Joanne Ratcliffe (born 1962) and Kirste Gordon (born 1969) were Australian girls who went missing while attending an Australian rules football match at the Adelaide Oval on 25 August 1973. Ratcliffe and Gordon's disappearance, and presumed abduction and murder,[1] made front page news in Adelaide's morning newspaper The Advertiser and the afternoon newspaper The News, and became one of the state of South Australia's most well known crimes. The case was mentioned in a Woman's Day 2011 article about the disappearance of Siriyakorn "Bung" Siriboon as part of a postscript on "Australian kidnapping mysteries involving children [that] tug at our heartstrings long after they faded from the news".[2][3][4][5][6]
References
- ↑ "Inquest on Adelaide Oval Girls", The Age, 10 July 1979. "A detective yesterday told the Coroner's Court that he believed that two young girls that disappeared from the Adelaide Oval six years ago had been murdered."
- ↑ "Kidnap Horror We Want Our Daughter Back; Siriyakorn has been missing for 14 weeks, but her family refuses to give up hope, GLEN WILLIAMS reports." Woman' Day [Australia] 19 September 2011. General OneFile. Web. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
- ↑ McNab, Heather (18 September 2014). "Accused paedophile's grandfather linked to disappearance of two children 41 years ago". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
- ↑ "Boy 'saw man forcing girls'.". The Canberra Times (ACT: National Library of Australia). 31 August 1973. p. 3. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ↑ "Police go to oval.". The Canberra Times (ACT: National Library of Australia). 3 September 1973. p. 1. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ↑ "$10,000 offer.". The Canberra Times (ACT: National Library of Australia). 27 September 1973. p. 11. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
Further reading
- Stephen Orr (2011). The Cruel City: Is Adelaide the Murder Capital of Australia?. Allen & Unwin. pp. 102–122. ISBN 9781742692944.
External links
- Kirste Gordon at the Doe Network
- Joanne Ratcliffe at the Doe Network
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