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The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron

Forty Years Searching for the Phillip Island Murderer

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The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron

By: Vikki Petraitis
Narrated by: Vikki Petraitis
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A murdered young woman; a missing wife; a forty-year mystery.

In 1986 on Phillip Island, a young woman called Beth Barnard was savagely murdered and her boyfriend’s wife, Vivienne Cameron, went missing. The police immediately jumped to what they thought was the obvious conclusion: in a jealous rage, Vivienne had killed Beth and then herself. Vivienne’s body was never found.

But Vikki Petraitis wasn’t convinced. The official line didn’t explain all the evidence, and it certainly didn’t seem like the behaviour of a mother with two small boys. Fascinated by both the case and the bias it revealed in investigators, Petraitis wrote her first true-crime book about the murder, with Paul Daley, and decades later made a podcast on the case. Both brought new evidence and testimony to light, and asked questions that were not asked at the time.

Now, to mark the fortieth anniversary of Beth’s murder and Vivienne’s vanishing, Petraitis brings together all her discoveries and true-crime experience in a brilliant forensic investigation into what happened all those years ago, and why. Murder True Crime Crime Marriage
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This book is so hard to put down and should be recommended to everyone. A well written, clear and concise recount of a case that has been ignored and hushed up for too long. I was moved listening to the injustice of Vivienne and Beth and the women who were ignored for decades. Vikki, thank you for giving these women a voice (again) and another chance for justice for them. We just need a good detective.

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Vikki has been telling this story for 35 years, and this is the culmination of all her research, experience and frustration at this blatant miscarriage of justice. The gloves are well and truly off, and deservedly so. Vikki does a great job narrating. Highly recommend.

Prepare to be outraged, and obsessed

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