A warning: this case details the heinous crime of the Bega school girls, and involves abduction, violence, rape and murder.
In 1997, two young girls from Bega in regional New South Wales were kidnapped, raped and murdered.
In this Rewind episode of Crime Insiders | Detectives, former host Adam Shand talks with former NSW Detective Sergeant Mark Winterflood to sift through the details and process of receiving the first notifications of the missing girls.
He explains the hard reality of not pursuing clues and following them to the end, how important it was to maintain a good relationship with the perpetrator and having to deliver the hard news to the parents.
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