North & South

DEATH BY THE RIVER

IT HAS swinging, scientists and the 60s. It is one of Australia’s most enduring unsolved tabloid scandals and, as with so many things, Australians tend to underplay the New Zealand connection to the case.

It all began with the discovery beside Sydney’s Lane Cove River on New Year’s Day 1963 of the bodies of Margaret Chandler and government physicist Dr

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