Posted on 07/12/2010 5:50:00 PM PDT by naturalman1975
POLICE believe they have found the body of longtime fugitive and Melbourne mass murderer Elmer Crawford.
He had been on the run since slaughtering his pregnant wife and their three young children almost four decades ago.
Crawford became one of Victoria's most wanted men after electrocuting and bashing his family before pushing their bodies over a cliff in a car at Port Campbell's Loch Ard Gorge.
Victorian police now believe they have tracked Crawford's body to the Texan city of San Angelo in the US.
Police now believe they have found one of Australia's most wanted men
Facial recognition experts from Victoria Police and the US FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia, have separately compared photographs of Crawford with photographs of the unidentified dead man and each reached the conclusion the body is almost certainly that of Crawford.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Tracing how this man got away with murder and will probably yield information on how to cath others.
Horrendous crime, though sadly not unheard of. John List comes to mind. Too bad he wasn’t caught years ago.
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