Speaker 1: This was the sort of setting which gave rise to
Speaker 1: all sorts of mischief, and Mount Eliza at that time
Speaker 1: had a reputation for being the wife swapping capital of
Speaker 1: the Mornington Peninsula. At least, it wouldn't surprise if Colonel
Speaker 1: Duncan died for one of those ridiculous, pathetic reasons that
Speaker 1: a thief decided to kill him on the spur of
Speaker 1: the moment. There were three bullets in him, two in
Speaker 1: his head, which is an execution, one in his shoulder.
Speaker 1: I'm Andrew Rule's Life and Crimes. Today We're going to
Speaker 1: revisit a very old crime. It dates back exactly fifty
Speaker 1: eight years from the time when we are recording this
Speaker 1: in the first week of September. It was a case
Speaker 1: that riveted Victoria, if not Australia. It was the murder
Speaker 1: of a man they call Colonel Duncan. Now he had
Speaker 1: been a colonel in World War II, John Norman Duncan.
Speaker 1: He'd served at the Brook in the Middle East. He'd
Speaker 1: come home to enjoy his peacetime life, and he'd become
Speaker 1: a prominent businessman. He was, by the nineteen sixties a
Speaker 1: director of Clark Rubber, a large company. He was also
Speaker 1: the owner of many properties, ranging from a Chukah in
Speaker 1: the north to Gippsland in the east, and he lived
Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties in a brand new architect designed
Speaker 1: house in one of the Blue Ribbon streets in then
Speaker 1: extremely fashionable Mount Elizer. Colonel Duncan, as people called him,
Speaker 1: was a bachelor. He had been married, but he'd been
Speaker 1: divorced back in the fifties. He lived with his labrador
Speaker 1: dog in his house, which he called glen Burne. He
Speaker 1: drove a late model gun metal gray Jaguar, and he
Speaker 1: involved himself in business and in things to occupy his time,
Speaker 1: such as amaur theatricals. He was a keen participant in
Speaker 1: amateur theater in Frankston, where he was one of the
Speaker 1: few men involved in a troop of amateur actors who
Speaker 1: were mostly women. He got involved with his neighbors. In fact,
Speaker 1: he was conducting a long term affair with the woman
Speaker 1: from around the corner. Her name was Sidnea Ferguson now
Speaker 1: Sidney Ferguson, was the wife of a very wealthy old
Speaker 1: man called James Ferguson, and in nineteen sixty six, James
Speaker 1: Ferguson was eighty four years old. He'd made a lot
Speaker 1: of money by selling out his family's bakehouses in Carlton.
Speaker 1: They owned so much land in Carlton that when they
Speaker 1: sold it back in the twenties and thirties, that land
Speaker 1: was used to build what is now the car park
Speaker 1: of the Royal Women's Hospital, vast amount of inner suburban land,
Speaker 1: worth a lot of money, and it set James Ferguson
Speaker 1: up for life. James Ferguson's way of spending money was
Speaker 1: to get married. He married three times in his life,
Speaker 1: and the third time was to Sidna. Sidna was the
Speaker 1: former Sidna Delile, well known family around Melbourne. She'd gone
Speaker 1: to St Catherine's Girls School in Tuak and one of
Speaker 1: her classmates, I think, or at least one of her schoolmates,
Speaker 1: was Cynthia Ferguson, the daughter of the old man that
Speaker 1: she married. Funnily enough, her brother, Gordon DeLyle, society photographer,
Speaker 1: had married Cynthia, and so it comes about that old
Speaker 1: Man Ferguson had a son in law and a brother
Speaker 1: in law who were the same person. Rather complicated, what
Speaker 1: it really means is James Ferguson was about thirty years
Speaker 1: older than his third wife. They had one child in
Speaker 1: nineteen forty two, and in the fifties they retreated to Mentalizer,
Speaker 1: where they led a nice life at the local yacht clubs,
Speaker 1: local tennis clubs, drinking champagne, drinking Gin and Tonic, and
Speaker 1: otherwise sitting around counting their money. This was the sort
Speaker 1: of setting which gave rise to all sorts of mischief,
Speaker 1: and Mount Eliza at that time had a reputation for
Speaker 1: being the wife swapping capital of the Mornington Peninsula. At
Speaker 1: least and foremost among these was Colonel Duncan. Having his
Speaker 1: affair with Sidna Ferguson at the very least, he might
Speaker 1: also have been conducting affairs with other women, which opens
Speaker 1: up some interesting possibilities in this story, because when Sidna,
Speaker 1: He's lover, raised the alarm on September fifth, nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 1: it turned out there were several possibilities about who had
Speaker 1: the motive to hert John Duncan. This is what happened.
Speaker 1: Sidna is expecting Duncan to come up to the Ferguson's
Speaker 1: house for pre dinner drinks and then dinner on this
Speaker 1: particular Monday evening, when the very punctual Colonel Duncan did
Speaker 1: not turn up at five o'clock or whatever. She knew
Speaker 1: that that was totally out of character. He would always
Speaker 1: come dead on time. She worried about it. She rang
Speaker 1: his house, there was no answer. She and a female
Speaker 1: friend drove down not far away, but they drove around
Speaker 1: to his house and she went and knocked on the door.
Speaker 1: No answer. She walks around, looks through windows, no answer.
Speaker 1: She goes to open the laundry door and she can't
Speaker 1: open it. She's shoving against it, and she realizes that
Speaker 1: something is jamming the laundry door. It is only when
Speaker 1: she looked down at her feet and notice of blood
Speaker 1: running under the door or seeping under the door, that
Speaker 1: she realized there was something terribly wrong. She ran out
Speaker 1: of the house, out to her friend's car, and they
Speaker 1: went for help. Within a matter of maybe twenty minutes
Speaker 1: or whatever, the police arrived. They called the police. The
Speaker 1: police arrived. When the police get there, there is no
Speaker 1: body in the laundry. They opened the laundry door and
Speaker 1: there's blood, but there's nobody there. They quickly realized that
Speaker 1: the body in the twenty minutes previous has been dragged
Speaker 1: from the laundry out onto the patio, and so the
Speaker 1: spooky truth is that Sidna, who'd come to find Colonel Duncan,
Speaker 1: had actually come to the house while the killer or
Speaker 1: killers were still there, aiming to dispose of the body.
Speaker 1: When the police get there, the killer or killers DeCamp quickly.
Speaker 1: They're already gone. The police find the body, which is
Speaker 1: all scruffed up, as if he's been dragged along which
Speaker 1: he had been. His clothes are racked up around his middle.
Speaker 1: We know that because we have a photograph of it.
Speaker 1: They find a pick and a spade nearby. Clearly the
Speaker 1: killers had intended to bury Colonel Duncan somewhere, you would
Speaker 1: think probably they intended to put him in the boot
Speaker 1: of his Jaguar and take him away and dispose of him.
Speaker 1: The police looked around the place to look for clues
Speaker 1: and for likely motives, whatever it might be, and what
Speaker 1: they found was that Colonel Duncan's bedroom had been turned
Speaker 1: upside down. Somebody did search for something in there, which
Speaker 1: makes you think of thievery, either theft as a motive
Speaker 1: or someone making it look as if theft was the motive.
Speaker 1: They found in the living room a lot of possessions
Speaker 1: piled up as if ready to take Colonel Duncan's shotgun,
Speaker 1: bottles of champagne, some clothing and some suitcases. It looked
Speaker 1: as if in a hell of a hurry the killer
Speaker 1: or killers had thrown all this stuff together as if
Speaker 1: they were going to take it with them. But of
Speaker 1: course when they were interrupted, all bets were Often they
Speaker 1: bolted what the police couldn't work out, and they veered
Speaker 1: from one theory to another over many months after this.
Speaker 1: Because this was a massive murder mystery at the time,
Speaker 1: it received a lot of media attention. Because it was
Speaker 1: a society murder, it was rather like the Wales King
Speaker 1: murders of more recent times, similar social stratum. It had
Speaker 1: the whiff of scandal because it was clear in reading
Speaker 1: the newspaper coverage that Sidna Ferguson knew the colonel very well,
Speaker 1: and there were some fairly obvious hints that they were lovers.
Speaker 1: There were suggestions about the dead man that he was
Speaker 1: a playboy, that he was well known around and medalize
Speaker 1: of Frankston area. Whether this was true or not, it's
Speaker 1: hard to know, but he had a reputation apparently for
Speaker 1: escorting younger women around a place interestingly in his will,
Speaker 1: he left his house, which was worth quite a lot
Speaker 1: of money. It'll be worth these days, probably worth three
Speaker 1: or four million bucks. Probably back then it was worth
Speaker 1: eighteen thousand and in the sixties. That was a lot
Speaker 1: of money. And he left that house to Sidna, to
Speaker 1: his lover, married Moon from up the road. He left
Speaker 1: a large amount of money to another local woman who
Speaker 1: used the name Marjorie Unsworth. Now, interestingly, her name sort
Speaker 1: of alters a bit depending where you've read it, but
Speaker 1: at the time it was given as Marjorie Unsworth. She
Speaker 1: died at a very great age back in about two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven. It was ever really explained why he
Speaker 1: left so much money to her, though he was friendly
Speaker 1: with her and purportedly her husband, and it was said
Speaker 1: that she used to do bookwork for him and so forth.
Speaker 1: But in any case, the colonel didn't have any children
Speaker 1: of his own. He did have brothers and nephews and nieces,
Speaker 1: but he left significant amounts to those two women. But
Speaker 1: of course there was also a very large estate elsewhere
Speaker 1: that would have gone to family members that were related
Speaker 1: to him. This left the police with a thorny problem.
Speaker 1: They couldn't really be sure was it just an idiotic
Speaker 1: robbery where the idiot robber thief was armed and decided
Speaker 1: to kill the colonel, you know, because he then couldn't
Speaker 1: identify him or them, or because you know, he'd attempted
Speaker 1: to run away from them or attempted to grab them
Speaker 1: or something. People are killed, you know, every month for less.
Speaker 1: People are murdered routinely for very bad reasons and very
Speaker 1: poor reasons. And it wouldn't surprise if Colonel Duncan died
Speaker 1: for one of those ridiculous, pathetic reasons that a thief
Speaker 1: decided to kill him on the spur of the moment.
Speaker 1: There were three bullets in him, two in his head,
Speaker 1: which is an execution, one in his shoulder, which makes
Speaker 1: you wonder whether he'd been shot first in the body
Speaker 1: and then they finished him off. But the police discovered
Speaker 1: that they'd used a crude silence, meaning they jammed a
Speaker 1: pillow over what I think was probably a pistol, and
Speaker 1: the police knew that because they could see holes shot
Speaker 1: through the pillowcase. And that was something that almost anyone
Speaker 1: could have done because it was a thing commonly seen
Speaker 1: on television and films in those days. Guy produces a weapon,
Speaker 1: grabs a pillow or a cushion or a blanket and
Speaker 1: uses it to muffle the shot. It was fairly well
Speaker 1: known and so they couldn't really get any traction on
Speaker 1: this case. It was said that Colonel Duncan had been
Speaker 1: seen earlier that day, that Monday, around the district with
Speaker 1: a couple of young people described at the time as
Speaker 1: youths plural. It was also said by someone who apparently
Speaker 1: knew the colonel's car, which was a fairly distinctive Mark
Speaker 1: ten Jaguar gun metal gray. Anyone who was around that
Speaker 1: district probably knew the car. They'd seen it driving slightly erratically,
Speaker 1: a little bit ratic, but with its headlights on and
Speaker 1: a blinker flashing continually when it wasn't actually turning. And
Speaker 1: later it was speculated by some people that the colonel
Speaker 1: was driving the car at that stage was trying to
Speaker 1: attract attention of other motorists or other passers by to
Speaker 1: the fact that perhaps he was being held in the
Speaker 1: car against his will. Now that actually makes sense to me.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a real thing. But of course, when
Speaker 1: he gets back to the house, he meets his maker,
Speaker 1: he meets his end. And so the man who'd survived
Speaker 1: to brook in the Middle East, and who had campaigned
Speaker 1: so successfully in his business life to make a large fortune,
Speaker 1: ends up shot dead like a dog in his own house.
Speaker 1: And the mystery lived on, and the mystery loomed large,
Speaker 1: probably until deep into the seventies. It was one of
Speaker 1: those cases that the newspapers would return to every anniversary
Speaker 1: for several years, every newspaper covered to a greater or
Speaker 1: lesser extent. Of course, the more scandalous newspapers, like the
Speaker 1: late lamented Truth newspaper, covered it in great detail and
Speaker 1: with highly colored speculation. And it was true that the
Speaker 1: police and everyone else around the district had theories about
Speaker 1: who might have wanted him dead, And if it wasn't
Speaker 1: just stupid thievery, it may well have been a jealous
Speaker 1: husband such as James Ferguson, or such as some other
Speaker 1: jealous husband, or possibly an angry debtor, an angry debta
Speaker 1: in a sense that someone who owed Colonel Duncan money. Now,
Speaker 1: Colonel Duncan, apart from all his other business interests, was
Speaker 1: known to lend money to people rather like a private bank.
Speaker 1: In fact, in a sense he was a private bank,
Speaker 1: and he was scrupulously fair and he was punctual, and
Speaker 1: he was brisk and all that stuff. And when he
Speaker 1: lent money to people, he had a mutation for wanting
Speaker 1: to get the money back precisely on time. He didn't
Speaker 1: suffer people who wanted to extend the loan period and
Speaker 1: who couldn't come up with the payments. And it was speculated,
Speaker 1: And it makes sense that it's conceivable that someone was
Speaker 1: angry at him for demanding a certain amount of money
Speaker 1: and not giving them any leeway or wriggle room. But
Speaker 1: I am thinking that the police would be able to
Speaker 1: scrutinize all his accounts and his affairs fairly accurately and
Speaker 1: have a fair idea who owed money and who didn't,
Speaker 1: and that they would be able to rule that out
Speaker 1: reasonably quickly. There was certainly no stories ever written back
Speaker 1: in the sixties or the seventies that actually pointed towards
Speaker 1: any particular person or group owing the colonel a lot
Speaker 1: of money. And so the question that the police faced
Speaker 1: back then, this is, you know, half a century ago,
Speaker 1: still stands today. Was it a robbery gone wrong or
Speaker 1: was it a paid hit made to look like a
Speaker 1: robbery gone wrong? And that is the same question now,
Speaker 1: as it's always been funny things happen. In the early nineties,
Speaker 1: a man who was well known around Frankston as a
Speaker 1: vicious footballer, a football thug. Will call him Dutchy. He'd
Speaker 1: grown up down on the Mornington Peninsula where he worked
Speaker 1: initially with his father, who was a builder, and this
Speaker 1: young fellow was apprenticed to his father and became quite
Speaker 1: a good builder. He was also a very fit, narcissistic
Speaker 1: young guy. Used to run a lot and do weights,
Speaker 1: and he supposedly used to box a bit golden gloves.
Speaker 1: Someone said, I can't find records of him winning any
Speaker 1: bouts in the golden Gloves, but that doesn't mean it
Speaker 1: didn't happen. And he was known, and this is a fact.
Speaker 1: He was known to do karate. He was a black
Speaker 1: belt in karate, and I've spoken to his adult step
Speaker 1: children who remember him coming back from the karate gym
Speaker 1: with his white gown on and his black belt and
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. And he was certainly well
Speaker 1: known in the local football leagues on the Mornington Peninsula,
Speaker 1: not for his football skill, which was average, but for
Speaker 1: his viciousness on the field, because he could fight well
Speaker 1: and punch hard. He used his powers for bad ends,
Speaker 1: and he was well known in an era when football
Speaker 1: was rough and tough and pretty bad news. This guy
Speaker 1: stood out because he would hit people behind the play.
Speaker 1: He would hit young players, and he would often hurt
Speaker 1: them badly. He put people out of the game by
Speaker 1: breaking their jaws and breaking their noses and bad things
Speaker 1: like that. And he was so vicious and so unpredictable
Speaker 1: and so bad tempered that even his own teammates even
Speaker 1: they didn't like him around the club. And when he
Speaker 1: finally got several year suspension from the league for a
Speaker 1: particularly vicious and unprovoked act on the field, his own
Speaker 1: team members and his own club president were quite pleased,
Speaker 1: because it was better not to have him around. This
Speaker 1: man did his beers on the sidelines. He came back,
Speaker 1: he injured more players. He went to another team elsewhere
Speaker 1: and he injured a young player, and I think that
Speaker 1: young player didn't play again. He was sadistic, nasty man.
Speaker 1: It is said that he didn't drink much or at all,
Speaker 1: and that if he went to pubs, his big trick
Speaker 1: was to drink lemonade and hang around and wait for
Speaker 1: any sign of any sort of trouble, and when the
Speaker 1: other guys had loosened up because they were drinking beer
Speaker 1: and alcohol, he would then belt them. It was sort
Speaker 1: of his idea of fun. So he didn't really have
Speaker 1: a lot of good men friends. Bar one who used
Speaker 1: to work with him, a guy that was sort of
Speaker 1: his partner in business in building. He stuck with him
Speaker 1: pretty well. But apart from that, men did not like Duchy.
Speaker 1: Duchy was narcissistic. Dutchy was nasty. Dutchy loved himself. Dutchy
Speaker 1: was the sort of guy that primped and preened in
Speaker 1: the mirror when he was in the gym. Dutchy really
Speaker 1: fancied himself with women, and he was a serial womanizer.
Speaker 1: He was lecherous. He was really antless, and he was
Speaker 1: a good physical specimen who took a lot of pride
Speaker 1: in being fit and all that sort of stuff. And
Speaker 1: so at a time when a lot of people were
Speaker 1: not particularly fit, he was. He was sort of blonde
Speaker 1: and tanned and all the rest of it. And he
Speaker 1: used to cut a bit of a swathe around the
Speaker 1: place around Medalizer and Frankston and Kringle and those sort
Speaker 1: of places. And he married someone will call L not
Speaker 1: her actual name, who migrated from the UK to Australia
Speaker 1: and lived in the Frankston area. She had at some
Speaker 1: point met and married a man down there and had
Speaker 1: three children. But either she broke up with that man
Speaker 1: or Duchy came along and swept her off her feet.
Speaker 1: Either way, she ends up in a relationship, in a
Speaker 1: marriage with Duchy when they are in there, say early forties,
Speaker 1: because she produced a fourth child, her fourth child to him,
Speaker 1: and they married, and when that little boy, when he
Speaker 1: was four, Duchy attacked L with a hammer. Now there
Speaker 1: was a bit of a backstory here. L. I've gone
Speaker 1: home to visit her sick father that year, and when
Speaker 1: she returned after two months, she went home to Duchy
Speaker 1: and said, Duchy, I don't want to be married to
Speaker 1: you anymore. I want to divvy up our possessions and
Speaker 1: take my thirty thousand dollars or whatever, and I want
Speaker 1: to take the kids, including his little boy, the youngest one,
Speaker 1: to be with my family over there because my father's
Speaker 1: dying at whatever. Apparently he didn't take kindly to this, Duchy,
Speaker 1: and they agreed to disagree. They agreed that they would
Speaker 1: break up so on, but they were still living in
Speaker 1: the same house. One night, according to what Elle later said,
Speaker 1: she goes out. He says he's going up to his
Speaker 1: caravan and a gamby to move furniture and stuff because
Speaker 1: the river's rising. The Goblin River was rising, and he
Speaker 1: wanted to move stuff above the flood level. And she said, okay, well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to Someone says tonight my cousin's place, to
Speaker 1: a party or wherever it was. I'll see you tomorrow
Speaker 1: whenever you get back. However, when she gets home from
Speaker 1: her cousin's at ten thirty at night or eleven or something,
Speaker 1: he's there. He hasn't gone at all, and she said,
Speaker 1: what's the story. You were going to the caravan. He said,
Speaker 1: oh no, I thought I'd wait till tomorrow morning. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that night, according to hers, she's in bed. She's had
Speaker 1: a couple of drinks, but she's in bed and he
Speaker 1: comes in and starts to bash her while she's asleep
Speaker 1: with an instrument, most likely a hammer. The guy was
Speaker 1: a carpenter, so a hammer would be easily obtained. He
Speaker 1: hits her very badly. In fact, there was blood all
Speaker 1: over the bedroom. So he's assaulted her with the hammer
Speaker 1: and he's done some other stuff, and none of it's
Speaker 1: very good. She is so knocked about by this that
Speaker 1: she staggers out. She gets help. Police come, ambulance come.
Speaker 1: She's taken the hospital. They treat her for fractures to
Speaker 1: the skull. She's bled a hell of a lot. The
Speaker 1: police at three o'clock in the morning are looking around
Speaker 1: to see what's what. Obviously it's domestic situation probably, and
Speaker 1: they ring up the caravan packet and a gambi where
Speaker 1: he's got his caravan, and the caravan pack guy at
Speaker 1: six am says, oh, he's just turned up now and
Speaker 1: he's lifting his furniture around. So it would appear that
Speaker 1: duchy who said he'd gone up there, you know, two
Speaker 1: am or something, or at midnight, he's actually gone up
Speaker 1: quite late, and so he's got up there just as
Speaker 1: dawn is breaking, which means he did have enough time
Speaker 1: to have committed that crime before he left. His argument
Speaker 1: is that he left earlier and it wasn't him that
Speaker 1: a stranger is broken into the house and attacked his wife.
Speaker 1: He's a strange wife. Funnily enough, the police don't believe him,
Speaker 1: and they do believe l and he is charged He
Speaker 1: goes to the county court where he is convicted on
Speaker 1: two very serious charges and his sentence to a total
Speaker 1: effective total of twelve years with a minimum of nine
Speaker 1: I think it was. He appeals and on appeal a
Speaker 1: learned appeal court decide that he should get for various
Speaker 1: technical reasons it should be cut back to seven year
Speaker 1: total with a minimum of five. And we know that
Speaker 1: because our researches for life and crime. That would be
Speaker 1: Sue Macbeth of Macbeth Genealogical Services. She discovered that Duchy
Speaker 1: I almost used his real name there. She discovered the
Speaker 1: Duchy married. He gets out of jail and he marries
Speaker 1: another one. That poor our wife dies in twenty ten,
Speaker 1: and the executive of the will is Duchy. But Duchy
Speaker 1: moves on. He moves up in a Gambi direction, up
Speaker 1: that way somewhere, and he moves away from the peninsula.
Speaker 1: And it turns out that he leads a relatively quiet life.
Speaker 1: He's in no databases, no phone books, no one up
Speaker 1: there in the whole Goldwen Valley area from you know,
Speaker 1: yay Seymour all the way to Arawanga, that massive, massive
Speaker 1: area of the Golden Valley, No one sort of hears
Speaker 1: about him or sees him much. He leads a quiet
Speaker 1: life and he might have a bit to be quiet about.
Speaker 1: You'd think he might have just about got away with
Speaker 1: anything he's done. But in two thousand and two, strange
Speaker 1: thing happens. The police have a sniff that Dutchy might
Speaker 1: be the man that killed Colonel Duncan. Now who has
Speaker 1: told the police this, We can't be sure, but it
Speaker 1: seems fairly clear that it would come from El, mother
Speaker 1: of the little boy with him, because in two thousand
Speaker 1: and two, a well known Victorian homicide squad member, a
Speaker 1: man whose name most of our listeners will know, was
Speaker 1: going to the UK on other businesses. He had to
Speaker 1: go over there to see a witness or something for
Speaker 1: some other case. And one of his colleagues from the
Speaker 1: cold case unit said, near, listen, while you're there, I
Speaker 1: want you to go and see l and take a
Speaker 1: statement from it. Now, our man, our hero, says, right,
Speaker 1: I will. So he makes an arrangement to meet her
Speaker 1: and they meet in a hotel and he assured me
Speaker 1: today actually that she was friendly. El was friendly and
Speaker 1: she was helpful. She was quite pleasant to meet. At
Speaker 1: this stage two thousand and two. I think her youngest boy,
Speaker 1: the one whose father is Duchy, was about fourteen by then.
Speaker 1: He put her age in the low fifties at that stage,
Speaker 1: which means she's had the fourteen year old boy maybe
Speaker 1: around of forty mark perhaps, And she makes a statement
Speaker 1: to him. Now, whether this is a full and frank statement,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that statement to some extent implicates
Speaker 1: Duchy in the Colonel Duncan murder of nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 1: or the Colonel Duncan death or the Colonel Duncan homicide
Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty six, because she tells that it active
Speaker 1: that she can recall way back then. Clearly she knew
Speaker 1: him when they were young. In nineteen sixty six, Duchy
Speaker 1: was twenty two and Elle was younger. She might have
Speaker 1: been nineteen or twenty or eighteen. Clearly she's known him,
Speaker 1: and he's always been a lady killer, and she was
Speaker 1: young and impressionable, and she was running around with him
Speaker 1: in perhaps a car that stood out a bit. The
Speaker 1: detective said he had something like a Ford custom Line,
Speaker 1: which in those days was what young blugs loved to have.
Speaker 1: They were a big, vight American car. The Ford custom
Speaker 1: Line and young guys, young tradees or jockeys, those sort
Speaker 1: of guys, footballers, boxes, people like that that had a
Speaker 1: few dollars spare. They loved to buy a Ford custom
Speaker 1: Line because they were big, they were American looking, and
Speaker 1: the other vights. And that may well have been the
Speaker 1: sort of car that Duchy had at that time. And
Speaker 1: she remembered being parked in a street or backstreet in
Speaker 1: Mantalizer and looking up the drive while she waited for
Speaker 1: Dutchy to return to her in the car, and she
Speaker 1: could see this Jaguar up the drive. Whether her story
Speaker 1: is totally detailed or deliberately vague, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: have no idea of knowing. But she apparently told the
Speaker 1: policeman about looking up a driveway and seeing the Jaguar car.
Speaker 1: That sounds very much as if it was Colonel Duncan's.
Speaker 1: The story she told did dovetail with the known facts
Speaker 1: to some extent that a young personal person's may well
Speaker 1: have been with Colonel Duncan just before his death. It
Speaker 1: was enough that the police were motivated to have a
Speaker 1: good look at Duchy, and I know for a fact
Speaker 1: that they put out stories in the media in two
Speaker 1: thousand and two, and the stories they put out raised
Speaker 1: the distinct possibility that Colonel Duncan's murder was a paid
Speaker 1: hit and that the motive, the likely motive, was of
Speaker 1: the jealous husband variety, whether that's true or not. They
Speaker 1: didn't have enough to make it stick on Duchy. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean Dutchy did it, and it doesn't mean he
Speaker 1: didn't do it, but they didn't have enough to make
Speaker 1: it stick. And so that was thirty six years after
Speaker 1: the event. So the accuser, such as she might be,
Speaker 1: is safely living back in the UK. Duchy is on
Speaker 1: a little property up the bush, somewhere in that vast
Speaker 1: Golbin Valley area, somewhere between Yay and Yarrawonga, which is
Speaker 1: I think that road between those two point is about
Speaker 1: two hundred kilometers long, so it's a big area that
Speaker 1: he's in there somewhere. We actually have a rough idea where,
Speaker 1: And the mystery of who killed Colonel Duncan is still
Speaker 1: a mystery. But who knows what might happen if someone
Speaker 1: were to talk to Duchy before he leaves the building.
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