Trudie Adams | |
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Born | Trudie Jeanette Adams 19 September 1959 |
Disappeared | 25 June 1978 (aged 18) Newport, New South Wales, Australia |
Status | Missing for 46 years, 1 month and 3 days [1] [2] |
Nationality | Australian |
Trudie Jeanette Adams disappeared in the early hours of 25 June 1978 after attending a dance at the Newport Surf Life Saving Club, New South Wales, Australia. She left the event early before hitchhiking home, at which point she entered a vehicle on Barrenjoey Road and has not been seen since. Her disappearance sparked New South Wales' biggest missing person search at the time, [3] attracted extensive and ongoing national media attention, and eventually a $250,000 reward. [4] [5]
Trudie Adams' parents and ex-boyfriend, Steven Norris, reported her missing on 25 June 1978 after she failed to arrive home from the dance. [6] Although police initially believed that the car she entered was a green Kombi van, Norris, as the main eyewitness, stated that he saw her enter a light-coloured 1977 Holden panel van. [7] [8] Police who investigated the case originally cast suspicion on Norris. Eventually he was cleared, and suspicion widened to those involved in the drug scene. [9]
In the days after the attacks, a number of female rape victims, who had been assaulted by two disguised men, began to report a series of then-unknown crimes to police. Investigators then suspected that Adams' disappearance was linked to the 14 now-known violent rapes that had occurred in the Northern Beaches between 1971 and 1978, [10] [11] and may also be related to an attempted attack on a hitchhiker earlier on the evening of Adams' disappearance. [12] On 16 August 1978, a reward of $20,000 was offered by the New South Wales government, [3] and over the years her suspected murder has been investigated by police four times. [3] [11]
Trudie Adams | |
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Born | Trudie Jeanette Adams 19 September 1959 |
Disappeared | 25 June 1978 (aged 18) Newport, New South Wales, Australia |
Status | Missing for 46 years, 1 month and 3 days [1] [2] |
Nationality | Australian |
Trudie Jeanette Adams disappeared in the early hours of 25 June 1978 after attending a dance at the Newport Surf Life Saving Club, New South Wales, Australia. She left the event early before hitchhiking home, at which point she entered a vehicle on Barrenjoey Road and has not been seen since. Her disappearance sparked New South Wales' biggest missing person search at the time, [3] attracted extensive and ongoing national media attention, and eventually a $250,000 reward. [4] [5]
Trudie Adams' parents and ex-boyfriend, Steven Norris, reported her missing on 25 June 1978 after she failed to arrive home from the dance. [6] Although police initially believed that the car she entered was a green Kombi van, Norris, as the main eyewitness, stated that he saw her enter a light-coloured 1977 Holden panel van. [7] [8] Police who investigated the case originally cast suspicion on Norris. Eventually he was cleared, and suspicion widened to those involved in the drug scene. [9]
In the days after the attacks, a number of female rape victims, who had been assaulted by two disguised men, began to report a series of then-unknown crimes to police. Investigators then suspected that Adams' disappearance was linked to the 14 now-known violent rapes that had occurred in the Northern Beaches between 1971 and 1978, [10] [11] and may also be related to an attempted attack on a hitchhiker earlier on the evening of Adams' disappearance. [12] On 16 August 1978, a reward of $20,000 was offered by the New South Wales government, [3] and over the years her suspected murder has been investigated by police four times. [3] [11]