Judith and Susan Mackay

Judith, aged 7 and Susan, aged 5 years old left their home at Aitkenvale, Townsville, at about 8.00am on 26 August 1970, to travel by bus to the Aitkenvale School. They did not arrive at School. On 28 August 1970, the bodies of both girls were found in a dry creek bed at Antil Plains approximately 100 metres off the Charters Towers Road, about 28 kilometres from Townsville. Both girls had been strangled and then stabbed. Their killer has never been caught.