THE CASE THAT CHANGED AUSTRALIA
On the wintry morning of July 7, 1960, 8-year-old Graeme Thorne left home for his daily journey to school. By the end of the day, he was dead, the killer was on the run and Australia had lost its innocence.
The shocking events occurred just weeks after Graeme’s parents Bazil and Freda Thorne won £100,000 (worth about $3 million today) in the lottery. The first kidnapping for ransom case in Australia turned into a murder investigation weeks later after the
