This Week In… 1951: Melbourne’s Retro “Teacher’s Pet” Case

This Week In… 1951: Melbourne’s Retro “Teacher’s Pet” Case

This week in 1951, Melbourne’s detectives and a police diver were searching the waters off Frankston for the body of Caroline Scully, a wife and mother who’d been missing for eight months. The chief suspect in her suspected murder? Her husband Edward, hailed as an Australian military Masterchef.


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