Almost 30 years ago
bakery on Tedder Ave after being missing for 20 hours.
The incident was captured for posterity by well-known press photographer Tommy Campion who took a dramatic photograph of police officer Gary Hamrey arresting one of the kidnappers at gunpoint.
The incident is remembered as among the Gold Coast’s most famous crimes.
It had a happier ending than another infamous Australian kidnapping – the abduction and murder of Sydney schoolboy Graeme Thorne.
The eight-year-old’s parents won the first division of an Opera House lottery, the prize being the equivalent of around $2.8 million in today’s currency.
He was kidnapped and a ransom was demanded.
The boy’s body was discovered a month later.
Stephen Bradley was convicted of the crime died in prison in 1968. later and