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tmdgirl

The girl who waited....forever.
http://news.yahoo.com/australia-suitcase-child-identified-linked-murdered-mother-085416684.html

Karlie Jade Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce Kiara Pearce have both been found, 5 years apart. I hope they can solve this one.

Australian police said Wednesday a young child's skeleton found in a suitcase earlier this year was the daughter of a woman whose bones were found 1,100 kilometres (684 miles) away five years ago.


Police said the discovery was a breakthrough in the cases that have baffled investigators, and that the mother and child had suffered "violent, deliberate deaths".

"This is one of the most shocking crimes -- shocking and unimaginable -- and another family has been torn apart and devastated," detective superintendent Des Bray told reporters in Adelaide.

"Those people that are responsible for this crime are truly evil and must be quickly caught and held to account for what they've done."

The woman, dubbed Angel by police as she was found with a T-shift with the words "Angelic", was named as single mother Karlie Jade Pearce-Stevenson, born in 1988.

Her bones were discovered in 2010 in Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales state -- notorious as the site where seven backpackers' bodies were dumped during a killer's murder spree in the 1990s.



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The remains of Karlie Jade Pearce-Stevenson were found in Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales, in …
The remains of the child -- Khandalyce Kiara Pearce, born in 2006 -- were discovered in July by a passerby near a highway close to Wynarka, a small town outside Adelaide in South Australia state.
 
I'm happy to hear there is likely a quick resolution to who done it. My first concern when I read this story was that so many years have passed since they disappeared and memories fade and she appears to have lived a transient traveling lifestyle. I'm so glad someone called in with the tips. Kudos to them. I'm glad the family will be able to get mom and the baby home for a proper burial.
 
I'm confused. This is a DIFFERENT suitcase in Australia? Wasn't this suitcase just found 3 months ago? So if she were missing since roughly 2008, and born in 2006, did someone just bury her to let her rot? Then why put her bones in a suitcase and toss it?
So this isn't the case that was suspected to be William Tyrell, right? Grads. There are monsters everywhere.
 
@BlueLover I got all excited when I saw your tag line and read it as "vegans beet" I thought oh cool the guy likes us meat free girls and he is making a beet pun! However then I scroll back up and reread it and that's not what it said at all LOL
 
@BlueLover I got all excited when I saw your tag line and read it as "vegans beet" I thought oh cool the guy likes us meat free girls and he is making a beet pun! However then I scroll back up and reread it and that's not what it said at all LOL

LOL I like beet meat though funny as hell :)
 
According to the movie info, it was based on true events...but it seems to take bits and pieces from the Ivan Milat murders in the 90's and Bradley Murdoch in 2001.

The only truth in that movie story line is that some people disappeared. One survived.

It was a work of fiction.
 
I'm confused. This is a DIFFERENT suitcase in Australia? Wasn't this suitcase just found 3 months ago? So if she were missing since roughly 2008, and born in 2006, did someone just bury her to let her rot? Then why put her bones in a suitcase and toss it?
So this isn't the case that was suspected to be William Tyrell, right? Grads. There are monsters everywhere.

It is the same body and suitcase that was in the William Tyrrell thread.
The police are saying both mother and daughter met with a violent end.
It's true. There are monsters everywhere.
 
Thanks to @Podargus for the update.
Personally, I didn't expect this case to turn this direction..

South Australian police reveal Karlie Pearce-Stevenson's bank accounts were accessed on hundreds of occasions across four states after her murder.

Police suspect people involved in the murder of Karlie and Khandalyce Pearce-Stevenson hijacked the pair's identities after killing them and raked in about $90,000 across multiple states and territories.

In an extraordinary development on Tuesday, South Australian police revealed Ms Pearce-Stevenson's phone was also used after she was killed to provide "proof of life" to her family and friends.

The young mother's skeleton was found in the Belanglo State Forest in August 2010.

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Police are closing in on those responsible and have revealed the mother and daughter were likely killed in different locations and times, from mid to late December 2008.

"A significant development in the investigation has been that people who police believe may be the offenders and others have taken over Karlie's identity," South Australia Police Detective Superintendent Des Bray told reporters.

Bank accounts, Centrelink and family payments were accessed and Ms Pearce-Stevenson's mobile phone was used by her killers to drive the fraud, police believe.

Her phone was used until mid-2011 and police say the offenders sent replies to text messages to create the impression that Ms Pearce-Stevenson was alive and well.

"We know tragically that some of those SMSs were sent to family members to suggest that Karlie was still alive," Superintendent Bray said.

A female also pretended to be Ms Pearce-Stevenson while communicating with family and friends.

On some of those occasions, she persuaded someone in Ms Pearce-Stevenson's family to forward money into her account, which the offenders later withdrew.

Superintendent Bray said Ms Pearce-Stevenson's account was accessed in at least four different jurisdictions - the Northern Territory, South Australia, the ACT and NSW.

Along with Centrelink payments, wages of a person, fraud and other sources of money also went into her account.

"All up, we believe over $90,000 was transacted through her account," Superintendent Bray said.

Police say it is clear that some of the people involved in the frauds knew "without doubt" that Ms Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce were dead.

The focus of the financial side of the murder investigation will be to determine how many of those people were involved in their deaths.

Investigators have also revealed a number of sightings of people purporting to be Ms Pearce-Stevenson.

One involved a man and a woman in a wheelchair who convinced staff at a credit union in June 2010 that she was Ms Pearce-Stevenson after showing her identity documents.

In the same year a woman went into a Centrelink branch at Salisbury in South Australia and falsely represented that she was Ms Pearce-Stevenson.

"And produced identity documents for herself and Khandalyce," Det Supt Bray said.

Ms Pearce-Stevenson's card was also used several times at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2010 and last used in March 2012 in Charnwood in the ACT.

The bank account was closed in 2015 after a lengthy period of inactivity.

The suspects in the identity fraud include at least one man and two women.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/girl...dentity-used-to-rake-in-90000-20151027-gkjpxi
 
So sad this mother and daughter lost their lives to such evil. All for the money. Thats the only reason they were killed. I suspect the little girls body was discarded in the suitcase close to where the little boy disappeared..mistakenly believing it would be identified as the missing little boy. I hope they catch the monsters that killed Khandalyce and her mom.
 
Must have been some clear CCTV images of the man he was arrested a few hours ago. No word on the two women involved in the identify fraud.

Karlie Pearce-Stevenson: NSW Police arrest man over alleged murder of mother
A man has been arrested in New South Wales over the alleged murder of young mother Karlie Pearce-Stevenson.
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Police said detectives arrested a 41-year-old man at Cessnock Police Station at 4:15pm.

The man, who is in custody, is expected to be charged with Karlie's murder later tonight.

Police said inquiries into the alleged murder of Khandalyce were continuing.
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Detective Superintendent Bray also confirmed Ms Pearce-Stevenson was last seen alive in Canberra in December 2008.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-28/arrest-made-in-mother-daughter-double-deaths/6884204


 
Man accused of murdering Karlie Pearce-Stevenson faces court
Daniel James Holdom, 41, appeared in Maitland Local Court via video link this morning. He did not apply for bail and it was formally refused.

The matter will return to Central Local Court in Sydney on November 12.

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Police believe Ms Pearce-Stevenson was murdered on December 14 or 15, 2008 and that Khandalyce died some time after her mother.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-29/man-accused-of-murdering-karlie-pearce-stevenson-faces-court
 
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A police trace has placed Holdom’s mobile phone in Belanglo at the time Ms Pearce-Stevenson was allegedly killed.
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It is revealed he was in a fatal car crash in SA’s Far North three months before Karlie’s murder that killed his girlfriend’s two children [aged 9 and 6] and left her in a wheelchair.
http://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/karlie-pearce-stevenson-man-accused-of-murder-in-sa-crash-that-killed-two-children

Seems one of the women posing as Karlie was this (former) girlfriend he left paralysed. She would presumably have been in hospital and rehabilitation facility for her spinal injuries for at least a few months, and during this time he came upon Karlie and Khandalyce.
 
Shocking new development in this case :rolleyes:

A Crime Stoppers caller has reportedly claimed Karlie Pearce-Stevenson was a drug runner who had up to $25,000 in debt.

Police have been told Ms Pearce-Stevenson may have been pursued for the $25,000 of drug debt in the months leading up to her death, the Adelaide Advertiser reports.

The informant reportedly claimed Ms Pearce-Stevenson allegedly fled Alice Springs with her daughter Khandalyce Pearce and the $25,000 in cash which was supposed to be used to buy drugs which were then to be smuggled interstate.

The informant also reportedly told police Ms Pearce-Stevenson’s grandmother was charged with serious drug offences in 2008.

Ms Pearce-Stevenson reportedly lived with her grandmother as a teenager and shortly before she disappeared.

The informant also claimed Ms Pearce-Stevenson was heavily involved with Daniel Holdom, the man charged with her murder.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/20...5-000-of-drug-debt-report#ZWrhLWyq3Do0157e.99
 
Charges finally laid for Khandalyce, Police allege she was alive for 4 to 5 days before being murdered 170km (100 miles) from her mum's murder/burial site.

THE man accused of murdering young mother Karlie Pearce-Stevenson has been charged with the murder of her two-year-old daughter.

Daniel James Holdom was brought into Parramatta Police Station at 10am this morning for questioning.

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Police allege that Holdom murdered Khandalyce at Wallaroo, NSW, between 2.17am on December 19, 2008 and 12.52am the following morning.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/body-in-suitcase-charges-to-be-laid-over-murder-of-khandalyce
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A man likely murdered his short-term girlfriend to sexually assault her two-year-old daughter, shocking court details have revealed.

Daniel James Holdom, 43, horrifically murdered 20-year-old mother Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce Pearce about four days apart in December 2008.

The mother and daughter, whose bodies were dumped 1200 kilometres apart, were not identified until 2015.

A suppression order was lifted at the NSW Supreme Court on Friday and the extremities of Holdom's brutal crimes can now be uncovered, the Daily Telegraph reported.

On a highway in South Australia in 2015, Khandalyce's skeleton was found in gruesome circumstances - packed in a suitcase with dishcloths stuffed in her mouth.

The toddler was wrapped in a bloodstained towel across her torso and duct tape and a nappy wrapped around her skull.

A suggestive notebook of Holdom's was later sourced by police

Among a list of children's names and the words 'consent', 'rape' and 'forced', Khandalyce and her age appeared next to 'rape'.

Crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC said it was 'highly likely' Khandalyce was still alive when she was gagged and taped for Holdom to sexually assault her, according to the Daily Telegraph.

'The exact circumstances of Khandalyce's death remain unknown but there can be no doubt her last moments must have been horrific,' he said.

'Karlie's murder was motivated by a number of factors which include in order to gain access to her young daughter Khandalyce, in whom the offender already expressed sexual interest.'

Ms Pearce-Stevenson, who was found in the Belanglo State Forest, NSW, in 2010, became known as the 'Angel of Belanglo' as her unidentified body was found wearing a T-shirt with the word 'angelic' on it.

The 20-year-old was only identified five years later when her daughter was found in the suitcase.

Holdom, who pleaded guilty to the charges one week before his murder trial was due to start in July, was forced to face the victim's family at an emotional sentencing hearing on Friday.

Holdom is due to be sentenced on November 9 before Justice Robert Allan Hulme.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...lie-Pearce-Stevenson-daughter-Khandalyce.html
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Man accused of killing mom and baby kept list of child rape victims: cops
A man who murdered a young mother and her 2-year-old daughter kept a child rape hit list in a notebook found by police, it has been revealed.

Horrific new details of Daniel James Holdom’s crimes emerged after the New South Wales (NSW) Supreme Court in Australia on Friday lifted suppression orders on evidence linked to the murders of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson, 20, and her 2-year-old daughter, Khandalyce.

Karlie and Khandalyce were murdered days apart in 2008 and their remains were disposed of in different states.

Their bodies were not identified until 2015, when police connected a tiny skeleton found in a suitcase on a South Australian highway to unidentified remains found in NSW’s Belanglo State Forest in 2010.

It can now be disclosed that a number of items were found in that suitcase that spoke of the horrors endured by the child at the hands of Holdom after he murdered her mother.

They include revelations that Khandalyce’s skeleton was found with a diaper wrapped around her skull and balls of dishcloth were stuffed inside her mouth. Duct tape and a bloodstained towel were also found inside the bag.

Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi told the court it was “highly likely” Khandalyce was still alive when she was “trussed up in this way,” gagged and taped, the Daily Telegraph reported.

“The exact circumstances of Khandalyce’s death remain unknown but there can be no doubt her last moments must have been horrific,” he said.

The notebook
Police later found a notebook belonging to Holdom in which he wrote a list of children’s names and the words “consent” and “forced” next to them.

Holdom pleaded guilty to the murders of Karlie and Khandalyce in July and was forced to face relatives of his victims at a sentencing hearing Friday.

Family members of Karlie and Khandalyce sat in the second row of the court public gallery, with some laying eyes on Holdom for the first time, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Other relatives watched the hearing via audiovisual links from both Darwin and Port Augusta.

Prosecutors have asked the court to sentence Holdom to two life terms for the “extremely wicked and atrocious” murders.

Defense attorney Greg Woods said the defendant’s traumatic upbringing, which included prolonged abuse, had played a role in the offenses.

“Though he has done dreadful things, to which he has pleaded guilty, dreadful things were done to him,” Woods said.

Holdom attempted to issue an 11th-hour apology after hearing of the impact of his “grave crimes,” but Justice Robert Allan Hulme was not convinced of his sincerity.

“I’ll have to think about whether I give that any weight at all. Why should I?” he said to Woods.

The murders
Police believe Holdom had been in a relationship with Karlie for about two months before killing her in December 2008. Khandalyce is thought to have been murdered about four days later.

Karlie’s unidentified body was for years known as “the Angel of Belanglo” because a T-shirt she was found wearing had the word “angelic” on it.

She had bone fractures indicative of being forcefully stomped on or kneed in the chest.

“This was a thrill kill, as evidenced by the taking, collecting and keeping of the trophy photographs he took of Karlie around the time of her death,” Tedeschi said.

Karlie’s blond toddler, suffocated by Holdom “probably” in a hotel room in Narrandera, was found with balls of dishcloth stuffed in her mouth, layers of tape wound from her chin to her eyes, and a disposable diaper wrapped around her skull.

“Both murders fall within the worst case and can aptly be described as atrocious, detestable, hateful, gravely reprehensible and extremely wicked,” Tedeschi said.

He is calling for two life sentences for the man behind their “callous, depraved and grossly heinous” deaths.

Holdom also used bank cards and personal papers to steal more than $50,000 from Karlie’s accounts, and a mobile phone to create “false indications” to her family that she and Khandalyce were alive.

Full Story:
https://nypost.com/2018/10/02/man-a...nd-baby-kept-list-of-child-rape-victims-cops/
 
A man who murdered a young mother and her toddler daughter in New South Wales and dumped their remains 1,200 kilometres apart will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Daniel James Holdom, 44, pleaded guilty in July to the December 2008 murder of his girlfriend of two months, Karlie Pearce-Stevenson, 20, and Khandalyce Pearce, aged two-and-a-half, about four days later.

Pearce-Stevenson’s remains were found in the Belanglo state forest in 2010 but were not identified until her daughter’s remains were discovered in 2015 in a suitcase dumped beside a South Australian highway.

Justice Robert Allan Hulme imposed life sentences on Holdom for both murders.

Holdom made a last-minute bid to withdraw his guilty plea for Khandalyce’s murder but the judge refused his application after a brief adjournment.

“His treatment of her (Karlie) showed complete disdain for her existence as a human being,” Hulme said, labelling it a murder of “extreme gravity and appalling depravity”.

“For him, she was just flesh with a life that could be extinguished for his vile pleasure.”

Hulme then described Holdom’s killing of the “completely defenceless two-year-old” girl as “despicable”.

The toddler, suffocated by Holdom “probably” in a hotel room in Narrandera, was found with balls of dishcloth stuffed in her mouth, layers of tape wound from her chin to her eyes, and a disposable nappy wrapped around her skull.
 
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