Decades after ‘Victoria’s most brutal crime’, Helen wants justice for the slain women of Easey StreetA little over 47 years ago, and about a kilometre from where I am sitting down to lunch with journalist Helen Thomas, two young women were slain so viciously that their unsolved murders are still referred to as “Victoria’s most brutal crime”.
“My first impression was just how brutal were, and how shocking it was that two young women could be in their own home and still not be safe, and that one had a child who was there, and that he had to wait three nights to be found.
As we settle on a “Teishoku” set meal, a traditional spread involving a variety of pretty dishes – and a signature menu item – Thomas says the feeling thathad failed the women remained with her, even as she rose to head the ABC’s News Radio arm.
“Pretty much every single person I’ve interviewed on, or off the record, has said something like, ‘I’m going to tell you this because those girls deserve justice’,” she says.