Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Britt.

And today we're going down under to a small rural town in New South Wales where three children's lives were lost and for more than 30 years

questions have remained unanswered. This is the story of the Bowerville murders. The It's around 10 a.m.

September. It's a... It's around 10 a.m. September 16th 1990 when Muriel Craig pulls her

station wagon full of kids up to a footy tournament in Maxville, which is located in New South Wales, Australia.

Muriel's 16-year-old daughter, Colleen, is supposed to meet them there.

And she actually hasn't seen Colleen in a couple of days, because she'd spend the last few nights at her Aunt Marjorie's house in the nearby town of Bowerville.

But everything takes a turn when they run into Marjorie and there's no Colleen.

And when Muriel asks her where Colleen is, Marjorie seems kind of pissed because she tells

her that they were at this birthday party together a couple of nights ago, and then

Colleen just took off on her and she hasn't seen her since.

And she's just now telling Muriel?

Well yeah and Muriel is like what the hell?

Yeah.

But I don't know if she thought Colleen would keep her mom in the loop or what.

So Marjorie basically says that Colleen mentioned, like thinking of taking a train to somewhere else at some point,

so she just had kind of figured that's what she did and

according to Dan Box's book Bowerville which we relied on heavily for this

episode Muriel feels immediately uneasy because she knows that if Colleen would have changed her plans like that, she would have called and told her mom.

So without the convenience of cell phones in 1990, there was one option.

Kids, get in the car, we're going straight to Bowerville.

And luckily, this is a town that she's very familiar with,

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