Mersina Halvagis

 

 

Mersina was stabbed to death on November 1st, 1997 as she visited her grandmother's grave at Fawkner Cemetary in Melbourne. A man was finally convicted of her murder in August 2007.

 

 He was also convicted in 2000 of the murder of Nicole Patterson and in 2004 of the murder of Margaret Maher.

47 year old Helen McMahon was bashed as she sunbathed on the Rye ocean beach on February 13, 1985.

detectives the evidence they needed to lay charges -- also stabbed to death 47-year-old Helen McMahon in 1985, 31-year-old Renita Brunton in 1993, and 95-year-old Kathleen Downes in 1997.   for killing psychotherapist Nicole Patterson in 1999 and prostitute Margaret Maher in 1997.

Police believe McMahon -- a mother of four stabbed on Rye beach on the Victoria's Mornington Penisula while sunbathing -- was  first murder victim.