Victoria, Australia:
Shepparton schoolgirl Michelle Elvira Buckingham was murdered in November 1983. Her body was found on 7th November beside the Violet Town Road in Kialla East, not far from Shepparton where she lived and went to school. She was just 16 at the time.
Rumour says she was shot in the head and had been hanging out with some really unsavoury people at the time. How much of this is true, I don't know.
Not a lot of information is available. I found one old report from 1985 stating that the case was still unsolved. A phone call to the Shepparton police and also to the relatively new Melbourne cold case squad has confirmed that her case was a homicide, and that it remains unsolved and active to this day.
Michelle doesn't seem to appear anywhere else in the media - not in newspaper archives on the net, not in obituaries, not in the several sites devoted to Australian cold case murders. Not anywhere.
I find this terribly sad. Not as sad as her untimely death or knowing that her killer was never brought to justice, but still it's a terrible thing for this girl to die like that, and nobody's made any kind of major issue of it.
It's not like crimes like these against children are all that common here as to not make the news... or spark discussion.
Shepparton schoolgirl Michelle Elvira Buckingham was murdered in November 1983. Her body was found on 7th November beside the Violet Town Road in Kialla East, not far from Shepparton where she lived and went to school. She was just 16 at the time.
Rumour says she was shot in the head and had been hanging out with some really unsavoury people at the time. How much of this is true, I don't know.
Not a lot of information is available. I found one old report from 1985 stating that the case was still unsolved. A phone call to the Shepparton police and also to the relatively new Melbourne cold case squad has confirmed that her case was a homicide, and that it remains unsolved and active to this day.
Michelle doesn't seem to appear anywhere else in the media - not in newspaper archives on the net, not in obituaries, not in the several sites devoted to Australian cold case murders. Not anywhere.
I find this terribly sad. Not as sad as her untimely death or knowing that her killer was never brought to justice, but still it's a terrible thing for this girl to die like that, and nobody's made any kind of major issue of it.
It's not like crimes like these against children are all that common here as to not make the news... or spark discussion.