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| 101 | Death of a beauty queen By ADRIENNE JONES Sunday 25 March 2001 The image of 20-year-old Miss Australia hopeful Anne Zappelli is forever frozen as a young figure in a white dress walking briskly down a dimly lit country highway to her death. She was raped and murdered somewhere either side of midnight on September 25, 1969, in a vacant block 50 metres from the road in the West Australian country town of Geraldton as she walked home alone from the local drive-in. Until a deathbed confession to rape and murder 19 years after the event and a second inquest 31 years on, her death remained one of Australia's greatest mysteries. An initial inquest failed to identify who killed her, and, despite more than 9000 interviews, three police inquiries and endless public controversy, the crime remains, to this day, unsolved. But tomorrow, after a sensational second inquest into her death, Anne Zappelli's family and friends hope their nightmare will end; that, after hearing eight days of evidence, WA Coroner Alastair Hope will tell them, finally, who killed her. The apogee of years of campaigning by Rhonda Zappelli, Anne's younger sister, the new inquest turned the spotlight on repeated criticisms of police handling of investigations, and on two prime suspects never charged. Former partners in petty crime, the late Norman Raisbeck and his accomplice, Thomas John Craig, fled Geraldton for South Australia the night of Anne Zappelli's murder. Like several other men in Geraldton at the time, they were key suspects, but were not charged - because both had alibis. They fled, according to Thomas Craig, because they had committed burglaries in Geraldton, for which they were later extradited to WA and jailed. Norman Raisbeck, however, on his 1988 deathbed in a South Australian hospital, confessed to two WA detectives interviewing him that he and Mr Craig were involved. He said he had raped Miss Zappelli, but blamed Mr Craig for her murder. Still no charges were laid, and when the Zappelli family found out about Mr Raisbeck's dying confession six years after his death, Thomas Craig was living a citizen's life with his wife and family in the seaside town of Bunbury. Rhonda Zappelli began campaigning for a new inquest when the family also learned that critical forensic evidence had been misplaced or destroyed. Former state attorney-general Peter Foss took up their cause in May last year, and the inquest opened in late February with the now 60-year-old Thomas Craig in the public gallery. He heard his late friend's deathbed confession read to the court, charging that Thomas Craig was obsessed with Miss Zappelli and angry that she had gone to the drive-in with a local police officer instead of going out with him. The two men had found her walking alone on the main street back to Geraldton from the drive-in and attacked her. Both men had raped her, but it was Mr Craig who had strangled her. Raisbeck said he had raped her first, and when he went back to the car, Mr Craig had Miss Zappelli in a headlock. Mr Craig had returned to the car with blood on his clothing and scratches on his face. They then fled to South Australia and agreed never to discuss what happened. Former police internal investigations officer Michael O'Halloran confirmed in court that Miss Zappelli had died from strangulation, a fact police had kept secret and which only the killer could have known. The Zappelli family's lawyer, Felicity Zempilas, told the court the evidence very strongly suggested Mr Craig and Mr Raisbeck were responsible for raping and murdering Anne Zappelli and that Mr Craig should be committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court. But Mr Craig said he had never met Miss Zappelli, that it was just coincidence he and his friend Mr Raisbeck had left for South Australia at the time she went missing, and that Mr Raisbeck's statement was "completely false, everything in it". In eight days of drama, the inquest brought together for the first time the full cast of people linked for decades in unresolved grief and collective suspicion. Among them were key witnesses Graham Batt, the young constable who was with her at the drive-in that night with two other friends, and Geraldton schoolteacher Roy Ryan, who wanted to date her but missed out to the policeman. The policeman told the inquest that he and Anne Zappelli had kissed at the drive-in but Miss Zappelli had been tired and suddenly decided to walk back to Geraldton. He and his friends spent hours looking for her when she didn't return, and reported her missing. The schoolteacher was probably the last to see her alive, except for whoever killed her. Dating another girl, he had passed Miss Zappelli hurrying along the gravel verge of the road towards town with two men following her, and said he had always felt guilty about not stopping to help her. The policeman and the schoolteacher bore the brunt of suspicion, especially in Geraldton, where relationships are close and murder is everyone's business. Five years younger than Anne, Rhonda Zappelli was 15 when her sister was murdered. She can't remember much about her sister and says her memories are frozen in the amnesia of grief. She remembers Anne Zappelli was a role model she could never emulate, a pretty girl with a wicked sense of humor, but very shy. But Rhonda Zappelli remembers more. She remembers when her sister died her family life shattered, with her distraught mother constantly sedated and her father, her two brothers and herself floundering, rudderless. She remembers the iconisation of her sister into a kind of perpetual celluloid beauty queen, frozen forever in perfection. "That's the worst thing about it, she's stuck as this Perspex kind of Miss Perfection, and she would be horrified to think she had 20 years and all there is is a photo of her with the bouquet and a tiara on." She also remembers a quarrel between Anne and her mother about a new dress. Her sister's death robbed them both of the chance to make up. "The thing that really bugs me is the fact that someone is taken away by someone else and you lose all that ... the humanity that's part of a normal relationship." Whether the inquest has resolved the 30-year mystery of her sister's murder, it may fulfil one other mission for Anne Zappelli's family: to deconstruct the creation of yet another saintly icon from the memory of a stolen life. | Zappelli, Anne Cecille (I2594)
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| 102 | deied aged 2 years | Wehrstedt, Pamela Aimee (I2597)
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| 103 | Developed pneumonia and typhoid and died aged 32. | Sampson, George Grenfell (I1157)
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| 104 | Died 6-8 Weeks prior to burial. | Lewis, Percy Robert (I154)
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| 105 | Died a pauuried in a public grave.per, last known address "Old Mens Home" b | Downs, Francis (I874)
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| 106 | died aged 1 year & 11 months | Eversden, Percy (I883)
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| 107 | Died aged 10 months | Eversden, Walter (I882)
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| 108 | Died aged 10 months | Hopkins, Cecil George (I1790)
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| 109 | died aged 10 years | Sampson, Mary Elizabeth (I951)
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| 110 | Died aged 13 years. | Kenworthy, Grace Alberta (I341)
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| 111 | Died aged 16 months | Wilton, Violet Emma (I97)
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| 112 | Died aged 16 months | Daly, Gwenda Jean (I1735)
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| 113 | Died aged 2 & half months | Wilton, George William (I724)
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| 114 | died aged 2 days | Munro, Keith (I3316)
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| 115 | died aged 20 years | Boyle, Cheryl Denise (I1679)
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| 116 | Died aged 27 years, Have also found a record for a Mabel Munro died age 1 yr 26.12.1919 | Munro, Mabel (I123)
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| 117 | died aged 28 years | Craven, Myra (I2112)
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| 118 | Died aged 3 months, grave # 117 Fremantle Cemetery. | Denic, Henry Jules (I1244)
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| 119 | Died aged 3 months. | Munro, William Archibald (I534)
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| 120 | Died aged 5 months | Walker, Frederick Thomas (I4056)
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| 121 | Died aged 6 days old | Brand, Irene (I3723)
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| 122 | died aged 6 months | Munro, Mary Ann Margaret (I530)
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| 123 | Died aged 7 months and buried at Toodyay in an unmarked grave. | Brimson, George Ernest (I1372)
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| 124 | Died aged 7 weeks | Harris, Ann (I2211)
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| 125 | Died aged 9 days | Sampson, William John (I1169)
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| 126 | Died aged 9 months, grave # 117 Fremantle Cemetery. | Denic, Frances Margaret (I1248)
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| 127 | Died as a POW and worked on the Burma/Thai railway. | Boyle, Reginald Arthur Percival "Reg" (I1135)
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| 128 | Died at 12 hours old | Rumble, Joseph (I325)
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| 129 | died at 2 months 1 week, Birth, baptism and death records show baby as male. Headstone show baby as female. | Rumble, Esther Augustus (I330)
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| 130 | died at 3 months | Kenworthy, Florence Ann (I342)
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| 131 | Died at birth | Merredith, Male (I2234)
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| 132 | died at half an hour old | Connolly, Joseph (I346)
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| 133 | died at half an hour old | Connolly, John (I347)
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| 134 | Died during WW1 | Lanyon, James Joseph (I1975)
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| 135 | Died in infancy | Thomas, Sylvia (I1369)
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| 136 | Died in infancy | Hopkins, Myra Castle (I2114)
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| 137 | Died in infancy 1924 | Brimson, Grace Elizabeth (I2230)
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| 138 | Died in the 1940's THOMAS HILDA MAUD JAMES GEORGE BRIMSON SARAH JANE YORK 1033 1893 | Thomas, Hilda (I1367)
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| 139 | Died of Wounds | Stokes, Clarence John (I470)
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| 140 | Early one morning in 1948 her husband collapsed to the floor, and she walked about two miles with their infant baby to get help | Wilton, Maud Louisa (I320)
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| 141 | Edward Warren was a Parkhurst boy sent to Western Australia in 1846. Parkhurst boys pre-dated the arrival of convicts in Western Australia and were juveniles who were sentenced to transportation. Western Australia accepted Parkhurst boys between 1842 and 1849 to boost the labour force in the new colony of Swan River. Edward appeared in the 1841 Census with Phillip Warren, Arthur Warren and Ann Warren it is unclear how they are related, they were residing in Thundbridge, Hertfordshire. Philip was 65 at the time of the Census and maybe he was Edward’s Grandfather. Philip was a widower when he married Mary Hart on 9th December 1810 at St Mary the Virgin in Ware, Hertfordshire and doesn’t appear in the 1841 census. Edward Warren was convicted at the Hertford Sessions on the 29th November 1841 at the age of 13 for housebreaking and was sentenced to 10 years transportation along with another lad of the same age named Robert Hart. I wasn’t Edward’s first brush with the law as he was before the previous quarter session admitted as evidence against a man named James Scales who was charged and convicted for receiving stolen fowls. Edward and another lad were asked by Scales to steal the fowls for him. Edward was transferred to Parkhurst from Hertford Gaol on 10th February 1842 to await transportation. His character was described as “Bad, artful and deceitful” The “Cumberland left the Isle of Wight on 30th September 1845 and arrived in Fremantle on 26th January 1846. On arrival Edward was indentured for 4 years, firstly as a domestic servant for Lt Col Andrew Clarke, 1846 – 1847. Then as a farm servant for William Locke Brockman in Upper Swan 1847 – 1850. Brockman gave good reports on Edward’s conduct. Edward was successful in his new life in Western Australia becoming a farmer, marrying Ellen Dewar and raising a large family. | Warren, Edward Arthur (I501)
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| 142 | Edward was a farmer at Greenough,he died of Typhoid fever in 1860. | Eversden, Edward Scott (I233)
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| 143 | Emily died from burns received when her clothes caught fire, she was washing clothes at the time and died about three weeks later from infection. | Wilton, Emily Catherine (I47)
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| 144 | Event Description: Aged 1 year, cause Pneumonia "Source East Perth Burial Records" | Sweeney, John Matthew (I3906)
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| 145 | Event Description: Aged 2 years, cause measles. Death registered under the surname Sweeney "Source East Perth Burial Records" | Reed, Florence Susanah Maud (I4102)
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| 146 | Event Description: Aged 6 months, cause teething "source East Perth Burial Records" | Hammond, Eveline May (I3765)
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| 147 | Event Description: Influenza & Pneumonia | Read, John Burnett (I3910)
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| 148 | Event Description: Mine accident | Read, Clifford Roy (I4117)
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| 149 | Event Description: sourceWestern Australian Death Certificate. | Hammond, Alice Matilda (I4099)
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| 150 | EVERSDEN ZELLAH PERTH 832 F M 1914 PAULL CHARLES | Eversden, Zellah (I879)
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