A blanketing silence hangs over the town of Beaumaris on Tasmania’s East Coast. Young Italian tourist Victoria Cafasso was murdered on its shores 25 years ago, an event that sent shockwaves through the community. The region’s mayor Mick Tucker speaks about the terrible event reluctantly - he doesn’t want to reopen old wounds.

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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