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From: Betty Hickey <>
Subject: Re: [NZ-MEMORIES] NZ-MEMORIES Digest, Vol 2, Issue 34
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:10:20 +1300
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Yes, I remember he died but I can't recall the circumstances of his death.
I think police /people expected a 'confession' but it all came to nothing
and the case was, apparently, dropped.
Betty
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> Betty - re that murder you wrote about. I lived in Wellington at the time
> and my Dad was a police sergeant at Central. He was very careful not to
> talk
> in front of me but 13yr olds have ways of "listening in" and I heard him
> tell Mum that they knew who had done it but couldn't prove it. I think
> that
> later "HE" walked into the sea at Island Bay and was never seen again? I
> recall Dad feeling justice had been done after all.
>
> Anne
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> 1. vintage VETERANS (Anne Green)
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> 3. why (Adele)
> 4. Re: Wellington (Betty Hickey)
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> I remember a terrible, and unsolved, murder on Mt Victoria in Wgtn in
> 1948,
> I think. Young Marie West, who lived at Mt Vic, was on her way to meet a
> girl friend at Courtney Place but never arrived there. Her body was found
> days later horribly mutilated and lying in scrub. Her murderer was never
> brought to justice but most people who knew her were sure her father was
> the
>
> culprit.
> Betty, in humid Napier.
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