The final moment she shared with her friend, Paula Brown, still haunts Margo Hendriks. On the night of May 3, 1996, the Sydney hairdressing colleagues went out for dinner with fellow hairdresser Carla Vestering and her then husband. After dinner, Paula and Margo kicked on to the Burdekin Hotel on Sydney’s bustling Oxford Street.
“We went inside, and Paula said, ‘I’m going to the bathroom.’ I was waiting and waiting,” Margo recalls. “And I thought, ‘Where the hell is she?’”
Margo never saw her