Crime Investigation Australia — Season 1, Episode 8: The Anita Cobby Murder

Episode synopsis

In February 1986, nurse Anita Cobby, a former entrant in the Miss Australia quest, is walking home from Blacktown station in Sydney's outer-western suburbs. A Holden sedan pulls up and Anita is dragged into the vehicle. She is taken to a lonely spot where five young men take turns to bash and rape her. Finally her throat is cut, almost severing her head, and her body is left in a paddock. The five men are later caught and convicted of these despicable crimes and sent to jail for life, their papers are marked "never to be released". But something positive will come out of this appalling and deeply disturbing story, as Anita's grieving parents begin a support group for the families of murder victims, offering comfort and mutual help for more than 1000 loved ones of homicide victims.

About Crime Investigation Australia

Crime Investigation Australia is an Australian true-crime series that first premiered on Foxtel's Crime & Investigation Network in August 2005. The series is also rebroadcast on the Nine Network, and made its debut there on 14 August 2007. The host of the series is Steve Liebmann.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1No More Grannies - The Granny Killer
• E2Kid for Ransom - Tears for Daniel
• E3Death in a Heartbeat - The Body in the Bag
• E4The Backpacker Murders: Ivan Milat
• E5Contract to Kill / The Mornington Monster
• E6The Moorhouse Horrors / The Call Girl Killing
• E7The Killer Punch/The Will of Death
• E9Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels
• E10The Kimberley Killer
• E11The Wanda Beach Murders/Beaumont Children Mystery
• E12The Greenough Family Massacre
• E13The Disappearance of Donald Mackay