THE MURDER THAT LED TO A TWISTED SERIAL KILLER
LINA MARCIANO
Adelaide teenager Lina Marciano was only steps from safety when her killer is believed to have attacked.
The 19-year-old had parked her white Honda motorcycle in the KFC car park in the Adelaide suburb of Nailsworth and was due at a Greek dancing lesson at the primary school just across the road. Lina never made the dance class.
Her 1978 murder remains unsolved, a brutal irony for her family knowing that the 42-year mystery was paramount in detectives ultimately solving the serial killing frenzy that was to become known as the Truro murders.
Investigators hunting Lina’s killer made links with seven other young women in and around Adelaide who had gone missing just a year before the teen was murdered.
James Miller was convicted of six of those murders in 1977. He was brought to justice after a car accident killed his lover, Christopher Worrell, and ultimately brought an end to his two-month “thrill-killing spree”.
The irony that her death helped solve the Truro murders is exacerbated by the knowledge that although police still have a suspect in Lina’s slaying, more evidence is
