There happened to be a post about the disappearance of Belinda Peisley on Facebook yesterday, on the same day that I found an article six years before her disappearance about the death of an old lady in her street, which was very close to the area where Belinda died. Whether there was any connection, I don’t know. Belinda disappeared 26 September 1998. Her last known location was Katoomba Hospital and she lived not far away in North Katoomba. The body of Anne Grace Rogers, aged 62, was found in the lounge room of a house at 80 Twynam Street June 17, 1991. Twynam Street is in North Katoomba, near the Hospital. She was attacked with a pickaxe died of several heavy blows to the head and the tips of every finger and thumb had been cut from the body using garden secateurs. She was said to have worn expensive rings. The house was ransacked and her car was missing. It was later located in Waratah Street, Katoomba. Although hundreds of people were interviewed, no motive or suspect could be identified. A small amount of cash and jewellery was missing but the Police said there was no indication of a break and enter. The article I read from 1992 was about how a $50,000 reward had been offered for information leading to the arrest of a suspect. Could it have been the crazed reaction of a drug addict? https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1079783182/photo/the-murdered-woman-the-house-in-rupert-st-katoomba-ms-rogers-neighbour-says-she-wore.jpg?s=2048×2048&w=gi&k=20&c=3BWoZV59nLr5lbinLQmZ-purKnN9vYRtchsC2uJP_iU=
Some others are:
DORRIAN Norma Rosalind 15/04/1978 Katoomba
GIESE Margaret Ruth 03/10/2000 Katoomba
PEISLEY Belinda Shirley 26/09/1998 Katoomba
Not all the missing or murdered people are women. Mr Richard Diak was probably murdered Sunday August 9, 1992, somewhere between the Scenic Railway and Narrowneck. His bloodstained day pack was found tossed over an embankment near the Putty Road August 31 between Windsor and Singleton. Diak was 41 years old and lived in Bellevue Hill. He was the Human Resources Manager at SBS. He was seen at 9.45am on August 9 sitting in his car, parked at the Golden Stairs carpark. An hour later he was seen walking at Narrowneck, and again at 11.45am in the Scenic Railway carpark. The last confirmed sighting was at 12.45pm on the Scenic Railway. Bushwalkers found Diack’s body at 1.30pm Monday August 10, 1992, at Narrowneck. He had been smashed on the back of his head with a heavy rock. Police found his car at Singleton Railway Station on Monday, August 10, at 6am. They had two suspects they wanted to interview.
Although items such as credit cards were stolen, at the 1996 Inquest, Police alleged that his recently married wite, Peruvian-born Ms Bresciani, erased part of a computer disk containing her husband’s diary on their deteriorating marriage. Detectice Sergeant Graeme Merkel said he had come to the conclusion that “the only person identified with any possible motive was Emelia Bresciani”.