Detective Inspector Kim Steven is the keeper of reams of documents and huge files of evidence stored over Nancy’s disappearance and Victoria’s murder. He’s been reviewing the two cold cases over the past 18 months, and hopes that on the 25th anniversary of Victoria’s death, someone will finally come forward and provide a vital clue. He also reveals that police might just be able to use science to pinpoint her killer.

Twenty-five years have passed since the brutal murder of a young Italian tourist on one of its remote and beautiful beaches in Tasmania.

Twenty-five years have passed since a peaceful Tasmanian seaside community was shattered by the brutal murder of a young Italian tourist on one of its remote and beautiful beaches. Still to this day, no-one has ever been charged with the murder of Victoria Cafasso. But Victoria’s death wasn’t the first disturbing event along that picturesque coastline — young German tourist Nancy Grunwaldt had disappeared from the same area two years earlier. With the anniversary of Victoria’s death, the Mercury revisits these two mysteries to find out what the police detectives and the locals think happened — and if they’ll ever be able to put these ghosts to rest.

Twenty-five years have passed since a peaceful Tasmanian seaside community was shattered by the brutal murder of a young Italian tourist on one of its remote and beautiful beaches.

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