Doubts raised about 'Pyjama Girl' identity
2005
Doubts raised about 'Pyjama Girl' identity
2005
- NFSA ID2R75D2TJ
- TypeRadio
- MediumAudio
- FormSeries
- GenresIndigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject, Current affairs
- Year2005
This is a short excerpt from Community Broadcasting Association radio program Arts Alive from 2005, featuring an interview with author Richard Evans.
The interview followed the release of Evans' 2004 book The Pyjama Girl Mystery: A True Story of Murder, Obsession and Lies.
In the book, Evans questions everything about the case, including the police investigation and the identity of the 'Pyjama Girl', a young woman who had been shot, beaten, set alight and then dumped along a stretch of road in Albury, NSW in September 1934.
Evans believes that the mysterious case was never properly solved. He claims to have debunked the official police account and blames sloppy police work for the misidentification of the young woman as Linda Agostini, the charges against her husband Antonio, and the unusually lenient penalty for her murder.
He also attributes errors in the police investigation to increasing pressure to close a murder case which had been plaguing the NSW Police Commissioner for more than a decade.
This is a short excerpt from Community Broadcasting Association radio program Arts Alive from 2005, featuring an interview with author Richard Evans.
The interview followed the release of Evans' 2004 book The Pyjama Girl Mystery: A True Story of Murder, Obsession and Lies.
In the book, Evans questions everything about the case, including the police investigation and the identity of the 'Pyjama Girl', a young woman who had been shot, beaten, set alight and then dumped along a stretch of road in Albury, NSW in September 1934.
Evans believes that the mysterious case was never properly solved. He claims to have debunked the official police account and blames sloppy police work for the misidentification of the young woman as Linda Agostini, the charges against her husband Antonio, and the unusually lenient penalty for her murder.
He also attributes errors in the police investigation to increasing pressure to close a murder case which had been plaguing the NSW Police Commissioner for more than a decade.
- NFSA ID2R75D2TJ
- TypeRadio
- MediumAudio
- FormSeries
- GenresIndigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject, Current affairs
- Year2005
- Production CompanyIndependent Media FoundationExecutive ProducerVincent O'DonnellBroadcasterCommunity Broadcasting Association of Australia
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