TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mercer,Neil
AU  - Jones,Ruby
TI  - Barrenjoey Road
SN  - 9780733340468
U1  - 363.233609944 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Sydney, NSW
PB  - ABC Books
KW  - Adams, Trudie.
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Investigation
KW  - New South Wales
KW  - Sydney
KW  - Case studies
KW  - History
KW  - Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
KW  - Police corruption
KW  - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
N1  - "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; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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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