FAMILY ASKS

for help over death riddle in tearful plea yesterday her Brisbane apartment was found in Chermside on Monday police are treating it (who lives with Mrs. Kent's 13-year-old son) as suspicious begged for information page three helped trigger his daughter last week remembered now her clothes like to take wear out on the bed this sick (bad) story that happened walking home from the city can't believe I forgot it kills me to think circumstance is key factor in wedding ring drug trick as simple as fragment of toenail dusted for prints & bingo return to crime scene hard as a rock strangled with black old-school telephone cord

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I was working with injecting drug users in the Valley when I wrote this...at the time it seemed like this sort of shit was happening, in one form or another to the people I was seeing every day. Maybe not as extreme as murder, but stuff like just got out of jail, or going back inside...hanging out, scoring, scamming, people getting bashed, people getting stabbed, or done over for their gear—that sort of thing. To be honest I remember having seen this snippet in the paper that morning about a murder in the northern suburb of Chermside...later that day I was at my desk and ended up writing this. I don't work in the Valley any more.