On the evening of 11August, 1978, Paul Connell returned to his home in Swansea, Australia, to find his wife and two youngest children missing. The house had been ransacked and broken into. Just a few moments after he returned, he received a strange phone call…
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Sources:
The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 August, 1978 – “Wife, Two Children Snatched”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 August, 1978 – “Siege Follows”
The Age, 14 August, 1978 – “Three Dead”
Papua New Guinea Post Courier, 15 August, 1978 – “Wanted Man Stabs Himself”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August, 1978 – “Grieving Husband”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August, 1978 – “Man, 28, Charged”
The Age, 16 August, 1978 – “Man Cries”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 August, 1978 – “Tears, Tributes”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 November, 1978 – “Man Admitted Abduction, Murders”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 November, 1978 – “Murder, Rape, Hearing”
The Age, 11 November, 1978 – “Mother, Children Murders Alleged”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March, 1979 – “Accused”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 April, 1979 – “Newcastle Hunt”
The Age, 5 April, 1979 – “Police Step Up”
The Age, 10 April, 1979 – “Huge Hunt”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 April, 1979 – “Wanted Men”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 April, 1979 – “Anatomy of a Manhunt”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 April, 1979 – “Manhunt Intensified”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 April, 1979 – “The Moment a Tense CIB”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 May, 1979 – “Cribb Sentenced to Jail for Life”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 March, 1993 – “Notorious Lifer Dead in Cell”
Associated Press, 16 August, 2007 – “Triple Killer to Apply”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 March, 2008 – “A Never Ending Crime”
Goulburn Post, 22 February, 2018 – “Murderer”
