Yahoo Lifestyle Why Anita Cobby will never be forgotten
Thirty years later, the abduction, rape, torture and murder of former beauty queen Anita Lorraine Cobby continues to resonate and horrify.
The sheer brutality and senselessness of her killing, and the extent of her injuries, shocked everyone from total strangers to hardened detectives involved in the investigation.
‘I was thinking the other day about all the people it has affected,’ says Gaynor, Anita's sister-in-law, who remains devastated to this day.
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Anita was last seen alive when she waved goodbye to her friends after dinner on Sunday, February 2, 1986, and walked into Sydney’s Central Station.
Two days later, her bloody and beaten body was discovered in a field at a farm in the outer suburb of Prospect.
Sadistic teenage rapist John Travers and four others – brothers Michael, Gary and Leslie Murphy and mate Michael Murdoch – were later convicted of murder.
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In a powerful special investigation to mark the 30th anniversary of Anita’s death, Seven News has tracked down and interviewed many of those whose lives were changed forever by the tragedy, including Anita’s sister Kathryn Szyszka and her sister-in-law Gaynor.
'He (John) blames himself but I’ve never blamed him,' said Gaynor.
'I lost two people that day she died. I lost my brother and I lost my beautiful sister-in-law.’
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