DEATHS TELL A TRAGIC STORY
MEMORIAL MOURNS 2200 VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE
NINETEEN women and children have died in North Queensland at the hands of the people who were meant to care for them. The RED HEART Campaign launched an online memorial to commemorate the Australian women and children lost to murder, manslaughter, neglect and other acts of violence.
The memorial documents more than 2200 victims of violence.
Sherele Moody – an award-winning journalist with News Corp – designed the memorial to provide an online space for family and friends to remember their loved ones.
“As a child I was subject to years of violent abuse and at 18 was horrified to find my stepfather had raped and murdered two little girls,” Ms Moody said.
“The majority of victims lost their lives to acts of an intimate partner or family violence.
“Almost all of those killed were known to the perpetrator – either as partners, family members, friends, colleagues or neighbours.”
LUKE TROW
Luke died aged six as a result of a bashing in 1988.
His stepfather Frank Leslie Burrows used a garden hose and a blunt object to cause more than 120 injuries to Luke at his home on Cockrell Street, Ingham.
ROSEMARY RUSSO
Rosemary, 59, was beaten to death by James Ray Samuel Mabo in her Deeragun home. Mabo pleaded guilty to manslaughter but a jury convicted him on a charge of murder.
MATTHEW RILEY BAXTER
Matthew died in hospital, aged just six weeks, three days after an incident at his home in Burdell.
His father Nicholas Aaron Baxter was convicted of his manslaughter but the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered on appeal.
Baxter’s legal team argued previous media coverage would jeopardise the fairness of a retrial.
ELIZABETH KIPPIN
Elizabeth Kippin, 81, was allegedly stabbed to death by Anthony O’keefe in her Townsville home in July 2016. O’keefe is yet to stand trial.
VANORA LEIGH MILLER
In September 2008, mother-of-two Vanora died in hospital from severe head and face trauma.
She was beaten and kicked by her former partner Jamie David Chenery, 35, at her home in Boundary Street, Railway Estate.
SAMANTHA ROSE BONG
On February 22 this year Samantha was stabbed to death in her home at Granville Street, Pimlico.
Her brother Dennis William Sore has been charged with her murder.
PAMELA FRANCES CORLESS
On September 3, 2018, Pamela was killed in her Cranbrook home. Police charged Mark Daniel Ferguson, 21, with Pamela’s murder.
They have also charged him with burglary and wilful damage.
BARAK AUSTRAL AND JHULIO SARIAGO
In February 2019 Barak, 5, and Jhulio, 3, drowned in the Ross River in Cranbrook. The boys’ mother Leanne Eatts was charged with manslaughter. She is also facing charges of trafficking dangerous drugs, supplying drugs to a minor, possessing drugs, permitting a place to be used in the commission of a drug offence and unlicensed driving.
UNNAMED BOY
In December 2007 a two-month-old
Jessica Turner boy died in hospital after an incident at a home in Oak Valley.
A 26-year-old woman and a 23year-old man were charged with manslaughter.
JUDITH ELIZABETH MACKAY SUSAN DEBORAH MACKAY
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Sisters Judith Elizabeth Mackay, 7, and Susan Deborah Mackay, 5, were kidnapped from a bus stop on their
SARAHJANE DOWER
Barak Austral and Jhulio Sariago way to school in August 1970. They were murdered shortly after.
Their bodies were found at Antil Creek.
Arthur Brown was suspected their murder. of
On September 1, 2012 mother-of-two Sarahjane Dower, 26, was stabbed to death by her former partner Kynan
Watego Devenna, 32, at his mother’s house in Ayr. After killing Sarahjane, Devenna drove her body to another location where he set her car on fire with her remains inside.
MIA AYLIFFE-CHUNG
British national Mia Ayliffe-chung was stabbed to death by Smail Ayad, 29, at Home Hill on August 23, 2016. Ayad also stabbed Mia’s friend Tom
Anita Cunningham
Jackson, who died in hospital days later.
Mia’s family spoke out after an inquest was denied.
JESSICA JANET TURNER
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On December 31, 2007 Jessica Janet Turner, 19, was stabbed to death by her ex-partner Radan Noel Watson, 30, in Bowen. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Carlyle Kattenberg
Karen Leslie Edwards
Matthew Riley Baxter
DOROTHY MAVIS BRITTON
Mother-of-three Dorothy Mavis Britton was shot to death in her home at Airlie Beach in March 1996. Her son Christopher Mark Britton was charged with murder in June, 2018.
CARLYLE KATTENBERG
Nine-month-old Carlyle Kattenberg drowned in the bathtub at his home in Charters Towers in 2016. His mother Kandita Kattenberg, 28, was convicted of manslaughter.
ROBIN JEANNE HOINVILLE-BARTRAM
Teenager Robin Hoinville-bartram left Melbourne with Anita Cunningham for a hitch-hiking holiday to visit her mother in Bowen, in 1972. Four months after disappearing, Robin’s body was found in a shallow
PATRICIA ROSE CARLTON
Elizabeth ‘Beth’ Kippin grave at Sensible Creek southwest of Charters Towers. No trace of Anita Cunningham has been found. No one has been charged.
Patricia Rose Carlton died in hospital hours after being found injured in a car park behind Menzies Pharmacy, West Street, Mountt Isa in 1983. Patricia’s partner Kelvin Ro
Samantha Rose Bong nald Condren was charged with Patricia’s murder and convicted.
KAREN LESLIE EDWARDS
Karen Leslie Edwards was shot to death at Spear Creek in 1978. Karen’s killer also allegedly killed Timothy James Thomson, 31, and Gordon Stuart Twaddle, 21. Some 41 years after their deaths, Bruce John Preston was charged with their murder.