Barrenjoey Road / Neil Mercer & Ruby Jones.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : ABC Books, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780733340468Subject(s): Adams, Trudie | Missing persons -- Investigation -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Case studies | Missing persons -- Investigation -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History | Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- New South Wales -- Sydney | Police corruption -- New South Wales -- Sydney | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 363.233609944 Summary: Back in the 1970s, Sydney's Northern Beaches seemed like a slice of paradise to those lucky enough to live there... So when popular local 18-year-old Trudie Adams disappeared one night while hitchhiking home from the surf club dance, her family, friends and community were devastated. As police began to investigate, the underbelly of the peninsula was exposed. It was a place where surfers ran drugs home from Bali, teenagers hitchhiked everywhere due to lack of public transport, predatory men prowled the streets, and countless young women were abducted and raped, crimes rarely reported or, if they were, rarely investigated. This is an exposé of why the disappearance of Trudie Adams was never solved. It takes us all the way to the top -- from a criminal perpetrator with a lifelong record and link to organised crime who was never formally accused, to police corruption at the highest level.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | 364.15 MER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111080851577 |
"1978. An idyllic beachside community. A series of abductions and rapes. So what happened to Trudie Adams?" -- Cover.
"Based on the ABC podcast and TV series" -- Cover.
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Back in the 1970s, Sydney's Northern Beaches seemed like a slice of paradise to those lucky enough to live there... So when popular local 18-year-old Trudie Adams disappeared one night while hitchhiking home from the surf club dance, her family, friends and community were devastated. As police began to investigate, the underbelly of the peninsula was exposed. It was a place where surfers ran drugs home from Bali, teenagers hitchhiked everywhere due to lack of public transport, predatory men prowled the streets, and countless young women were abducted and raped, crimes rarely reported or, if they were, rarely investigated. This is an exposé of why the disappearance of Trudie Adams was never solved. It takes us all the way to the top -- from a criminal perpetrator with a lifelong record and link to organised crime who was never formally accused, to police corruption at the highest level.
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