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Speaker 1: One quiet summer night in Melbourne. Forty six years ago,

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Speaker 1: Susanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were brutally stabbed to death

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Speaker 1: in their home in Easy Street, Collingwood, as Suzanne's young toddler,

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Speaker 1: Land Is caught. Their killer has never been found, and

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Speaker 1: their double homicide remains one of Australia's most chilling cold cases.

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Speaker 2: It would be absolutely fair to say that I'm seventy

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Speaker 2: five now, hardly a day goes by that I don't

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Speaker 2: think about this particular murder.

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Speaker 1: Did they know their killer or was it a random attack?

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Speaker 1: At the time, police weren't sure and warned women in

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Speaker 1: Melbourne to lock their doors and windows, Yet they failed

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Speaker 1: to interview a number of witnesses living in the street.

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Speaker 1: One right next door to Sue and Suzanne.

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Speaker 3: She told me that she was sitting there at the

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Speaker 3: window because it was a hot night, and she said

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Speaker 3: she saw a bloke leaving out the back gate.

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Speaker 2: Till this day, until I die, I'm convinced there were

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Speaker 2: two killers, not one.

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Speaker 4: Has the investigation focused on the wrong person? How many

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Speaker 4: men were really there.

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Speaker 1: In the Easy Street murders. We'll talk to forensic and

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Speaker 1: legal experts as well as Suzanne and Susan's family and friends.

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Speaker 4: She had a good sense of humor, and the kids

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Speaker 4: loved her because she made them feel real.

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Speaker 5: She wasn't constrained, i should say, by the norms of

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Speaker 5: the time, which forty five years ago a single mother

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Speaker 5: was regarded very poorly by society.

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Speaker 1: And the retired detective who'll never forget walking into the

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Speaker 1: little house in Easy Street.

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Speaker 2: But this guy has done something so bad, so bad

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Speaker 2: that humanity just would never even forgive him, no matter

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Speaker 2: who the reality was, what he did to those two

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Speaker 2: girls could never ever ever be forgiven or anyone.

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Speaker 3: Binge.

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Speaker 1: All episodes of Case File Presents the Easy Street Murders

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