The 30th anniversary of the kidnap, rape and murder of six year old Kylie Maybury in Melbourne, Australia was a few weeks ago.
Sadly, unlike Karmein Chan and Sheree Beasley, Kylie Maybury is not a household name in Melbourne.
Those of us who care about what was done to her are incredibly lucky that Keith Moor, the original reporter on the murder back in 1984 for The Herald, is still working for its’ successor, the Herald Sun. I checked The Age and there was no 30th anniversary article for Kylie in that newspaper.
Any Australians here remember Kylie Maybury?
Yes I know all of those cases well. I have a poi on the Karmein Chan case. Still working on it. We did have news report on Kylie’s case just recently to mark the thirtieth anniversary. Hopefully all these cases will be resolved one day.
Acting Det-Insp Buick said recent publicity in the Herald Sun about the unsolved 1984 rape and murder of Kylie Maybury had led to several suspects being nominated to police. He said Kylie’s killer’s DNA had been obtained from material he left on the body of the six-year-old and that DNA sample would be compared with DNA police intended getting from the newly nominated suspects as well as previously nominated suspects who hadn’t yet been DNA tested.
“A number of people were identified, not all had been identified previously, so we are pursuing those leads,” Acting Det-Insp Buick said.
“Not all the people who had been identified had had their DNA taken so we are now going through the process of who has been DNA tested and who hasn’t and then we will go about getting DNA from all those people.”
