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Unsolved Girls that went missing from Adelaide Oval 1973
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In Nov, I posted that Stanley Hart had charges for sexual offences (see 1966 Govt Gazette listing below) but was told there wasn't anything to confirm that he'd ever actually been convicted.
I've (finally) followed up the one set of charges below. He was convicted in July 1966 for six sex offences against an 11 yo girl between Sept 64 and Dec 65. He got sentenced for 3 1/2 years.
His address in court was given as Rowland (now Burbridge) Rd Hilton.
I've (finally) followed up the one set of charges below. He was convicted in July 1966 for six sex offences against an 11 yo girl between Sept 64 and Dec 65. He got sentenced for 3 1/2 years.
His address in court was given as Rowland (now Burbridge) Rd Hilton.
well done. A good find.
that address is in the direction the trio were last seen headed !. get to port road then head south.
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Dec 65. Arrested then? Bailed or custody
That's a very good question, given the timing!! He was bailed after he was committed for trial. Looks like that was some time in April. I haven't gone back to the Magistrates to see when he was first charged. But it doesn't look like he was in custody prior to trial.
That was his address given in mid 1966. If the electoral rolls are a reliable indicator, he had a stint in a Parkside rental until 1972, then was back to Mile End (14A Henley St) in 1973. He also had his Yatina house and his father died 3/73, so the Prospect house may have been unoccupied. I wonder if he and the wife lived separately at times.
There's also evidence he didn't serve the full 3 1/2 years. He seems to have been out at some point in 1968.
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This might help. I think you can infer some reasonable ideas
Section 2: Major themes by decade | Comparative Youth Penality Project
Department drafted its own Treatment of Prisoners Act - not introduced (Telfer 1999) .
Remissions - Prisons (Sentences and Parole) Regulations 1970
For all sentences of greater than 3 months, a prisoner became eligible for 10 days remission per month. Remissions were now a privilege, whereas previously they had been a right.
ie take 10 days a month off his head sentence
That lines up perfectly.
imo, stan hart was definitely in the, let's call it a circle of people, group/community who had involvement and/or knowledge of this crime, a ring is a ring, however - imo stan hart was not the man seen by witnesses to abduct kirste and joanne from the oval, hart was 56 at the time, the man in question was early 40s
Is the curator still alive?
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MMM in Adelaide had a story on this on the Rok and Ditts brekky show, rumour is there is potentially a DNA evidence breakthrough linking Stan Hart to the crime.
I only caught snippets as I was working, anyone have more to offer?
I only caught snippets as I was working, anyone have more to offer?
Some of the snippets I heard on Triple M this morning
Some of this was attributed to the Leave a Light On foundation which raises awareness of long term missing people
- Police had previously said they hadn't interviewed Hart but it now turns out they interviewed him the day after the girls disappearance
- As it's nearing the 50 year anniversary, Leave a Light on Foundation are looking to have some sort of memorial at the oval, a rose garden or similar
- There's a movement to posthumously award Joanne a bravery medal based on witnesses accounts that she was trying to fight off the attacker
- Breakthrough DNA evidence that will finally solve the case has been found (Inference being that it was Hart)
Some of this was attributed to the Leave a Light On foundation which raises awareness of long term missing people
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feel like its the ''muck in a barrel ' allegedly found at Yatina
Personally I think LALO are adding mayo
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Quite likely, they mentioned his Grandson Mark Marshall I believe and from memory it was he who suggested barrels hidden at Pekina Dam that we're subsequently discovered.
we should expect this, with the anniversary now only 3.5 months away, while a lot of this is well intentioned, the key is finding the bodies first, then all of the who did it will fall into place after that, dna or however, the pekina dam barrels do contain blood dna, but it is not known if it is human or animal, barrels would make sense if the bodies were acid bathed after death, but this is not known, and probably not the case, it is most likely conventional burial at a private location, or locations, where discovery has yet to occur, ie a backyard where no, or limited, development has taken place
At a different location, a dam nearby.
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There are a number of associations mentioned at various points in this thread. I will list them:
* Frank Bone was an associate of Hart and also had property dealings with BSVE. He was seated with the group comprising the girls.
* Terry Smythe was an associate of Hart. His girls were playing with the AO Girls before the abduction. Mark Marshall (grandson of Hart) married one of his daughters.
Hart was questioned by police very next day which is very early to be connecting the dots. Done by known associates in my mind.
I believe it's likely that a ring was involved. I think that ring used the person least likely to implicate them ....Brown (interstate , no priors, no known association) to snatch. Both Hart and Brown had QLD connections
Very insidious all these connections. Difficult to believe it was coincidence
* Frank Bone was an associate of Hart and also had property dealings with BSVE. He was seated with the group comprising the girls.
* Terry Smythe was an associate of Hart. His girls were playing with the AO Girls before the abduction. Mark Marshall (grandson of Hart) married one of his daughters.
Hart was questioned by police very next day which is very early to be connecting the dots. Done by known associates in my mind.
I believe it's likely that a ring was involved. I think that ring used the person least likely to implicate them ....Brown (interstate , no priors, no known association) to snatch. Both Hart and Brown had QLD connections
Very insidious all these connections. Difficult to believe it was coincidence
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He came on later, around 8:40, to begin with Ditts gave a brief rundown of the story earlier in the morning.
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I think if you look close enough, most of Adelaides seedy crimes are interlaced through these types of connections.
The key players might not have been active in every case but they had association and probably knowledge with those who we're specific to each.
You have BVSE associated as above to players around the AO case.
BVSE is convicted of RK's murder.
AB is linked to RK via the Family murders.
AB was with DK moments prior to abduction.
DK knew DS
BVSE was nearby when Duncan drowned in the Torrens.
And all of this overseen by a bloke given the title and responsibility of State Pathologist despite not having the qualifications to support the role who hooks up with a dominatrix that keeps a mortuary table in her den.
You couldnt script this shit and if someone did, surely the punchline would see the whole sick sequence of events and more compiled in a report, locked away from prying eyes for the best part of a century from those high up above.
If you dig deep enough youre bound to find connections between those suggested in the BC case with the connections around the AO case.
Adelaide was and still is a small place with much less than 6 drgrees of seperation.
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