On October 6, 1974, police officer Ian Hamilton and his partner received a call from the caretakers of a local youth camp. The caretakers reported hearing the screams of a woman, later identified as 20-year-old Lorraine Wilson, for at least 20 minutes near the camp. Unfortunately, they couldn’t make out the directions of where the sounds were coming from. At the time, no one knew the distress Lorraine Wilson and Wendy Evans were in.
Immediately, the two officers drove to the camp located off of Toowoomba Range Road, in Queensland Australia.
Shortly after the call, the two officers arrived at the camp. Together, the caretakers and police walked about 80 meters away from the camp, further up the range.
Initially, neither officer heard anything. However, after a few minutes of walking, they both heard the screams. Officer Hamilton described the sounds as “the most terrifying and horrendous screams” he had ever heard – “blood-curdling.” Little did they know, Lorraine Wilson miraculously escaped the clutches of her captors. Because of the wind, the screams sounded distorted and no one could tell where they originated from.
After searching for 40 minutes, the two police officers headed back to the patrol car. They decided to drive around the area instead. While driving, they shined lights outside the vehicle hoping to find the screaming female. By midnight, they gave up entirely and headed back to the station. At the station, they informed the next shift patrol about the screams.
In the following days, no one was reported missing and the terrifying female screams were all but forgotten. Six days later, Lorraine’s aunt reported to police that Lorraine and her friend, 18-year-old friend Wendy Evans were missing.
Two years after their initial disappearance, Lorraine and Wendy’s skeletal remains were found at Murphys Creek. Unfortunately, it took almost forty years for the world to know what happened to Lorraine and Wendy. They were brutalized by a “putrid pool of miscreants” in a gang-bang. Listen to this podcast episode to learn more about the terrible fate of the two young nurses from Sydney Australia.
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Podcast Episode Source: The Ricochet of Echoes by Lorraine Wilson’s brother, Eric Wilson