Spotlight on Christine Mary Sharrock
Christine Mary Sharrock
- Born: 1950
- Died: 11 January 1965
- Service Date:20 January 1965
- Disposition:Burial
- Cemetery: Liverpool
- Location:Section Grave, Catholic Select O Grave 128
THE WANDA BEACH MURDERS
most infamous unsolved Australian murder
The Wanda Beach Murders are the case of the unsolved murders of Marianne Schmidt and Christine Mary Sharrock at Wanda Beach near Cronulla in Sydney, New South Wales on 11 January 1965.
The victims, both aged 15, were best friends and neighbours from the suburb of West Ryde, and their partially buried bodies were discovered the next day.
The brutal nature of the slayings and the fact that they occurred on a deserted, windswept beach brought massive publicity to the case. By April 1966, police had interviewed some 7,000 people, making it the largest investigation in Australian history.
It remains one of the most infamous unsolved Australian murder cases of the 1960s and New South Wales' oldest unsolved homicide case.
