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The Bogle–Chandler case refers to the mysterious deaths of Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Margaret Chandler on the banks of the Lane Cove River in Sydney, Australia on 1 January 1963. The case became famous because of the circumstances in which the bodies were found and because the cause of death could not be established.
The film was shortlisted for both a Walkley Award and an Australian Human Rights Award in 2014 and won a UTS Human Right Award. Dan Box, a crime reporter with The Australian, hosted a 5-part Australian crime podcast that detailed the murders, released in May 2016, called Bowraville. [4] [18] [26] Box also released a book of the same name in ...
An autopsy reported the cause of death as a fractured skull and strangulation. [59] 1978 Denise McGregor: Wallan, Victoria: McGregor was a schoolgirl from Pascoe Vale. She was kidnapped, raped and murdered on 20 March 1978. [60] McGregor's assailant was never identified, and the case remains one of Melbourne's most infamous cold cases. [61] [62]
The lack of an obvious cause of death along with the location led to a belief that Knight may have gotten lost and died of thirst so the death was not considered suspicious. Almost one year later, on 15 April 1979, police discovered the skeletal remains of 16-year-old Sylvia Pittmann, about 2 km from where Knight's remains had been located. [ 4 ]
Beelzebufo (/ b iː ˌ ɛ l z ɪ ˈ b juː f oʊ / or / ˌ b iː l z ə ˈ b juː f oʊ /) is an extinct genus of hyloid frog from the Late Cretaceous Berivotra and Maevarano Formations of Madagascar. [1] The type species is B. ampinga, and common names assigned by the popular media to B. ampinga include devil frog, [2] devil toad, [3] and the ...
The oldest-known frog fossils date to even earlier. Scientists in Argentina have discovered excellently preserved fossil remains of the oldest-known tadpole, the larval stage of a large frog ...
Human remains have been found in the search for a missing Sydney couple believed to have been killed by a New South Wales police officer.
Rheobatrachus, whose members are known as the gastric-brooding frogs or platypus frogs, is a genus of extinct ground-dwelling frogs native to Queensland in eastern Australia. The genus consisted of only two species, the southern and northern gastric-brooding frogs, both of which became extinct in the mid-1980s.