The Truro Murders (Part 4): The Victims: Vicki and Connie

The Truro Murders (Part 4): The Victims: Vicki and Connie

The Truro Murderers had now claimed the lives of four young women. They were unrelenting in their bloodlust and began to take more risks in finding new victims.

Vicki Howell – Aged 26

Only a day after the death of Sylvia, on February 7th, 1977 the driver was told to meet his friend at the Adelaide Post Office at 7pm. There, with his friend was Vicki Howell, a 26-year-old woman who was in a bit of an emotional slump, having recently separated from her husband.

The good looking young man had convinced her to go for a long drive out to the Barossa Valley. They stopped at Nuriootpa for Vicki to use a bathroom. A little further out from Nuriootpa, they stopped so the driver could go into the bushes and relieve himself.

When he returned, only half an hour later, Vicki was dead and his friend was covering her body in the backseat.

The two men argued extensively about this murder as the driver felt she was a nice girl and didn’t deserve his death. The argument ended, with the driver sure his friend would kill him.
The two men continued only a few minutes further on up the road to Truro, and disposed of the body in their usual manner, before returning to Adelaide.

Connie Iordinides – Aged 16

 The killing spree was now picking up pace. On February 9th, only two days after the death of Vicki Howell, the two men were driving around Adelaide when they noticed a young girl standing on the footpath, laughing and giggling to herself.
They turned the car around and drove up to her, asking if she needed a lift anywhere.
The young girl jumped in the car and sat in the front seat between the two men. Instead of heading where they had promised her, they turned in the opposite direction toward Wingfield.
The driver stopped in his favourite secluded area, got out of the car and went for a walk. He could hear young Connie screaming as she was pulled into the backseat and raped, then strangled.
When he returned, Connie was dead and covered with a blanket in the backseat.
The two men drove to Truro and disposed of her remains in the same manner as the previous girls. They then drove back to Adelaide, sleeping in their car at the Victoria Park Racecourse.


Next Week: The Truro Murders (Part 5): The Victims: Deborah L and Deborah S

Researched and written by Allen Tiller © 2015

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