Unsolved Easey St Murders Collingwood * ARREST MADE

[Satan]

Police have arrested a man in Italy over the 1977 murders of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett in their Easey Street home. He fled Australia in 2017 after he became aware he was a suspect.

The man fled to Greece and couldn’t be arrested because local laws meant charges must be laid within seven years of the offence.

The Easey Street murders are still unsolved.CREDIT: STEPHEN KIPRILLIS

Police have waited those 15 years for him to leave Greece so he could be arrested. They will now seek to extradite him to Melbourne to face the charges.

A police spokesperson confirmed a 65-year-old dual citizen of Australia and Greece was arrested at an airport in Rome in the early hours on Friday.

For you russian bots , long unsolved double murder in Melbourne

 

[jimmytigs]

Was the suspect 17 or 18 at the time of the commision of the offence?

Iddles said he had a car when pulled over a few weeks later but other reporting says he was 17

Doesn't really matter as the death penalty was abolished in 1974

they keep saying 17,so interesting that one

 

[jimmytigs]

just had to have a laugh,on the suspects profile this guy sent this message to him

David John Nunn
Update the photo Dingo looks like you are in Australia

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on his profile is this

 

[Kurve]

So he was a burglar.

The man arrested in Italy over the Easey Street murders – one of Victoria’s most brutal unsolved killings – was a student at a school where one of the victims taught.

Kouromboulis now 65, was a student at Collingwood High School – now called Collingwood College – where Susan Bartlett was an arts and crafts teacher.

More than a week after the bodies were discovered, Kouroumblis was pulled over by local constable and later homicide detective Ron Iddles, who found a knife in a scabbard in the boot of his car.
Kouroumblis, then a teenager, said he had found it on Collingwood railway tracks on January 10, between 10.20pm and 11pm. That was 90 minutes after the two women were last seen alive.

“Perry, said by police to be ‘in smoke’, was on the run to escape burglary charges. Perry had been questioned on other matters some days after the murders, police said. A bloodstained knife with a long blade had been found in a scabbard in the boot of the car,” Prior wrote.

The inquest was held in July 1977, the same month Kouroumblis’ parents sold their home on Bendigo Street, Collingwood – three streets away from Easey Street.

Blood on the knife was found to be human and matched A positive, the same blood type as Armstrong’s.
According to author and crime reporter Tom Prior in his book The Trusted Men, the inquest accepted a statement from Kouroumblis but could not question him because he had absconded while facing burglary charges.

Easey Street suspect unmasked as link to victims emerges

Perry Kouroumblis, now 65, is suspected of killing two women in the 1977 Easey Street murders – and one of Melbourne’s oldest schools links him to the victims.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Kurve]

Someone will eventually find an old Collingwood Highschool picture

 

[Visions]

So Perry was a student at the same school that Susan Bartlett taught at, the consensus was that the victims knew their attacker, so that could be the link.

He was also on burglary charges at the time so wasn't a clean skin. Mind you a huge step up to rape and double murder, and the frenzy of the attack itself.

 

[Kurve]

So Perry was a student at the same school that Susan Bartlett taught at, the consensus was that the victims knew their attacker, so that could be the link.

He was also on burglary charges at the time so wasn't a clean skin. Mind you a huge step up to rape and double murder, and the frenzy of the attack itself.

It might come down to whether Perry knew Bartlett lived there, if not she may have disturbed him through the burglary and recognised him. Even then, as you say what he went on to do is a huge step up.

Given he lived less than 1km away and his burglary activities, which would involve a lot of prowling, he probably did know she lived there.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

So Perry was a student at the same school that Susan Bartlett taught at, the consensus was that the victims knew their attacker, so that could be the link.

He was also on burglary charges at the time so wasn't a clean skin. Mind you a huge step up to rape and double murder, and the frenzy of the attack itself.

I think there's also a DNA match.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

It might come down to whether Perry knew Bartlett lived there, if not she may have disturbed him through the burglary and recognised him. Even then, as you say what he went on to do is a huge step up.

Given he lived less than 1km away and his burglary activities, which would involve a lot of prowling, he probably did know she lived there.

Susan Bartlett was young and attractive, no doubt young males at the school would have noticed. After school anyone could easily have followed her home without attracting attention among a crowd of students.

Might have fancied his chances turning up to the house after hours.

 

[Kurve]

I think there's also a DNA match.

But is the DNA match to both semen and blood on the knife?

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

But is the DNA match to both semen and blood on the knife?

I'm sure I read that a match to the semen was via a family member. But would stand corrected.

 

[takethepowerback]

So Perry was a student at the same school that Susan Bartlett taught at, the consensus was that the victims knew their attacker, so that could be the link.

He was also on burglary charges at the time so wasn't a clean skin. Mind you a huge step up to rape and double murder, and the frenzy of the attack itself.

Seems the burglary charges basically got him out of this at the time. Supposedly was found with a large knife in the boot of his car, had blood remnants on it but had been wiped clean. Question extensively; claimed to have found the knife, and had a strong alibi related to the burglary charges that was backed up by accomplices. Great that they seem to have him now, but gee, you'd be a bit like geez we had him in our grasp back then.

 

[Visions]

Susan Bartlett was young and attractive, no doubt young males at the school would have noticed. After school anyone could easily have followed her home without attracting attention among a crowd of students.

Might have fancied his chances turning up to the house after hours.

It was in January so no school at that time. Would have been during the holidays.

What his intentions were in going there in the first place, who knows. Doubt it was burglary as both victims were home and one at least would be able to identify him.

Was it because he thought he might be able to seduce Bartlett, but she knocked him back and it led to him going psycho, killing her and then raping and killing Armstrong?

But is the DNA match to both semen and blood on the knife?

Think they said the DNA matches the semen (at least a family member), but the blood on the knife was A positive which matched Armstrong's blood type. Don't know if there was any DNA testing done on the knife blood (was it even stored away or has it been lost over time)?

 

[Kurve]

From Easey Street where they lived was only 130m to the corner of Bendigo Street. If Perry was walking to Collingwood Highschool on Hoddle Street, he was walking straight past their house which was almost on the corner of Easey Street.

 

[Visions]

Seems the burglary charges basically got him out of this at the time. Supposedly was found with a large knife in the boot of his car, had blood remnants on it but had been wiped clean. Question extensively; claimed to have found the knife, and had a strong alibi related to the burglary charges that was backed up by accomplices. Great that they seem to have him now, but gee, you'd be a bit like geez we had him in our grasp back then.

Obviously there were police failings back then in the way it was all investigated, but its not to say that he would have been caught/arrested at the time. Most of the evidence is circumstantial, they had more well known suspects who even then they couldn't pin anything on, with the first real opportunity being when DNA testing came into it many years later. This itself found all those main suspects to be cleared.

As they say most of the time with any murder, the name of the murderer is within the police files. Its just a matter of trying to single out the perpetrator with concrete evidence which is easier said than done.

 

[Kurve]

Makes more sense now this was likely the knife used. Explains why it didn't break after so much use and that guard (hilt?) would have protected his hands from slipping down the blade. Also explains why bone chips were found in the bathroom drain.

It looks a bit like a bowie knife.

 

[Two Planks]

Was 17 the driving age back in the 70s

 

[Nikita Blue]

Such amazing news. Will be interesting to find out in due course the alleged perpetrator's criminal history. Hard to believe he could have committed such savage murders and then just lived a normal life.

 

[Kurve]

Almost unbelievable.

This in January, 1978.