The 30 Year Cold Case of Nanette Ellis - Episode #4 Re-Issue
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This is a re-issue of episode 4 of Australian True Crime, released in 2017.
A popular, gentle suburban single mother, whom friends and family said didn’t have an enemy in the world, was the victim of several bizarre incidents of vandalism before she was brutally murdered in her own home.
She’d been alone in the house for just minutes when her teenage son returned and made the terrible discovery. Was she being stalked by a stranger? Did she have a second life no one knew about?
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| 0:00.0 | Nanette's sister, you had to look after all the affairs, packing up all her stuff, packing up her house. |
| 0:05.6 | At that time, I didn't even supply cleaning at the crime scene. |
| 0:09.3 | So she had to clean the crime scene? |
| 0:11.0 | With her partner, and her partner said he'd do it. |
| 0:13.3 | So they went in high esteem cleaner. |
| 0:15.0 | And it was just horrendous. |
| 0:16.8 | You know, like you're never going to clean it properly. |
| 0:24.3 | You may have heard by now that one of our listeners, that is one of you, |
| 0:28.5 | recently gave police the information they needed to locate and arrest fugitive Keith Lees, |
| 0:33.9 | who police are standing by to charge with the murder of his former partner, Megan Rose, |
| 0:38.5 | 27 years ago. |
| 0:40.2 | That news has inspired me to reissue an episode of Australian True Crime from 2017. |
| 0:45.4 | It's one of our very first, involving another family asking for our help with a cold case. |
| 0:51.3 | On February 10, 1984, 41-year-old Nanette Ellis was brutally stabbed to death in her home |
| 0:57.4 | in Manuka Drive, Boronia, which is an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne. In the lead-up to her murder, |
| 1:03.9 | Nanette had been the subject of an escalating campaign of stalking and vandalism. On the evening of |
| 1:09.5 | her death, Nanette was alone in her home for just |
| 1:12.2 | 45 minutes. The absence of her sons during that period was unplanned and unpredictable, |
| 1:18.4 | which makes the attack all the more brazen. It occurred during broad daylight, and Annette's home |
| 1:23.9 | was surrounded by neighbours. Yet no one has ever reported seeing or hearing anything. |
| 1:30.2 | There is currently a $500,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in this case. |
| 1:36.0 | If you have any information about the murder of Nanette Ellis in 1984, please contact |
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