On the night of 19 September 1952, 22 year old Betty Shanks stepped off a tram at the Grange terminus in Brisbane and set off on the short walk home. She never made it and her body was found the next morning, in the front garden of a house just metres from her parents' own home.
Despite an extensive police investigation and decades of renewed interest, no one was ever charged over her death. The case has become one of Queensland's most haunting cold cases. A young woman killed almost within sight of her own front door, with her killer never identified.
