This was the same man that was sitting on the park bench the day that the little Stilwell girl disappeared in St Kilda". She would say, "I got the biggest shock of my life.
The following year, the woman would open the newspaper to look at a photograph of the suspect in the Yvonne Tuohy murder. The man was sitting with his legs crossed looking out to sea quite intently". She described him wearing "a deep navy blue, almost black, spray jacket, similar to that worn when sailing. The woman said a man had been sitting with the girl. Two days later a witness told police she had seen a little girl rolling on a grassy bank near the pier. Karen, Gary and Linda Stilwell (right), a few months before Linda's abduction. The three children of Jim and Nancy Beaumont: Jane, 9, Arnna, 7 and Grant, 4 caught the bus from their Somerton Park home for a short ride to Glenelg Beach, Adelaide. The day is writ in Australian crime history as the nation's loss of innocence, one of the greatest child abduction mysteries that still makes news today. In his belongings in the tea chests they also found a map marked at Ryde near the spot where the Wanda Beach victims caught the train. In notes found in Percy's car four years later, police found a story written by Percy which bore a "striking similarity" to the Wanda Beach murders. The following year at Percy's new school, Corryong High in Khancoban, fellow students who had seen a police sketch of the youth sought over the murders, teased him about being the killer. Marianne's brothers provided a description of the youth they had scene, and a police artist drew up a portrait of a man with a long, narrow face.
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