What a bizarre case - Australian 'murder victim' alive

[dysfunction]

BBC Link

An Australian teenager who disappeared four years ago has turned up alive, living in the same town as her family home.
It has thrown into chaos the trial of a man accused of killing her and three other teenage girls.

Natasha Ryan is back from the dead. Four years and eight months after she disappeared, the 18-year-old has been found hiding in a wardrobe. Police in the northern state of Queensland are interviewing Natasha to find out why she stayed hidden in her hometown of Rockhampton for so long.

She went missing on her way to school in August 1998. Her family was convinced she was murdered and held a memorial service on her 17th birthday. But a tip-off led Queensland police to a suburban home in Rockhampton, north of Brisbane.

Detectives have said Natasha did not want to be found. They are trying to piece together exactly how she could live so secretly in such a small town for so long. It appears she rarely went outside and was harboured by her boyfriend, a 27-year-old milkman. Family friends have described Natasha's reunion with her mother as somewhat reserved.

Detectives believed she was another victim of a suspected serial killer who has been standing trial accused of murdering a number of young girls. In court, prosecutors claimed the 51-year-old man had confessed to killing Natasha Ryan. In view of recent events, defence counsel have insisted police evidence is unreliable and want the trial aborted.

Its weird I tell ya!!!

 

[lynchet]

Hmm if shes 18 now she must have been 14 when she disappeared (if I've read the thing right) -- with a 27 (then 23) year old boyfriend.

Methinks some cradle snatching and Bill Wymanesque antics could well be the reasoning behind all this !

 

[Maljonic]

In the January Issue of the Home and Away newsletter it says that Ailsa is coming back into the show, even though she died of a heart attack; wonder if she has been hiding in the tool shed behind the diner all along

 

[doh_boy]

pfff,

she'll come out of the shower and it was all alfs dream!

 

[Maljonic]

eww, scarey image of Ailsa coming out of the shower

 

[PhaZeY]

Trouble with Home and Away (from what i remember) is that it's had more comebacks than Status Quo

./P

 

[Maljonic]

they've never had someone come back from the grave before.

 

[dysfunction]

It will be Dallas all over again

 

[Maljonic]

maybe Alf is the one that died and he just doesn't know it yet

 

[ReActor]

Hiding in a wardrobe for four years? For no apparent reason?

Those crazy Australians!

 

[raw]

Typical ozzie's tbh! All nutters

 

[Maljonic]

oo oo neighbours in half an hour

 

[Wij]

Your old sig was better reactor