Australia ELISABETH MEMBREY: Missing from Ringwood, Vic, Australia - 6 Dec 1994 - Age 23

1452DFVIC - Elisabeth Frances Membrey

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Elisabeth Frances Membrey
Missing since December 6, 1994 from Ringwood, Victoria, Australia.
Classification: Endangered Missing

Vital Statistics

• Date Of Birth: June 6, 1972
• Age at Time of Disappearance: 23 years old
• Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'5"-5'6" (166 cm)
• Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; gray eyes.
• AKA: Elizabeth

Circumstances of Disappearance
Elisabeth was last seen when she left her job at the Manhattan Hotel, Ringwood, Victoria at approximately 23:45 on Tuesday, 6 December, 1994.

Forensic evidence indicates Elisabeth was murdered at her house, her body driven away in her red Mazda, which was later returned to the unit.

Police believe a known visitor was let in. Sometime later she was attacked in the hallway and killed.
The killer spent hours trying to conceal the crime. The hallway wall was washed and a deep bloodstain on the carpet was attempted to be cleaned.
Police believe the killer wrapped Membrey's body in her doona and put it in the back seat of her Mazda. They believe she is located along dirt roads within 100 kilometers of the Ringwood unit. They believe the car was returned 3 hours later.

The car showed dust and soil consistent with the Kinglake and Silvan areas, that was wedged in the wheel trims and doors.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Victoria Police Station
61 3 9247 6666

Source Information:
NSW Police
ABC Online
The Age
Victoria Police
Newspix
MSN News
ABC 3/17/08

Additional sources:

Elizabeth Frances MEMBREY

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Torment of unsolved murder mystery continues to haunt

Cold Case detectives believe they may finally get the man who murdered 22-year old Elisabeth Membrey in what has become one of Australia's biggest murder mysteries.

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Torment of unsolved murder mystery continues to haunt

Cold Case detectives believe they may finally get the man who murdered 22-year old Elisabeth Membrey in what has become one of Australia's biggest murder mysteries.

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ELISABETH MEMBREY: Missing from Ringwood, Vic, Australia since 6 Dec 1994 - Age 23

 

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DNA links new suspect to Elisabeth Membrey murder

Witnesses told police the suspect would refer to the Membrey case, saying “Liz is in a safe place” and “They won’t find the body, there is a lot of bush around there”.

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DNA links new suspect to Elisabeth Membrey murder​

February 4, 2023 — 5.00am

A five-year reinvestigation into the murder of Elisabeth Membrey, who disappeared from her Ringwood unit in 1994, has unearthed fresh evidence identifying the likely killer and found police previously charged the wrong man.

A DNA match to samples collected in the victim’s car has now been linked to the brother of Membrey’s housemate - a Melbourne man convicted of rape in Queensland.
Another man, Shane Bond, was charged with the murder in 2010 and acquitted two years later by a Supreme Court jury. He has always maintained his innocence and said that while he drank at the pub where Membrey worked, he did not know her. There was no forensic evidence linking him to the Ringwood unit or Membrey’s car.

The new suspect, who cannot be named because of a Supreme Court suppression order, was a witness at the trial.

He testified that he had been to the Bedford Road unit to visit his older sister (who owned the property) “five or six times, maybe not even that”.

Membrey, 22, drove her Mazda to the nearby Manhattan Hotel to start work at 5pm on December 6, 1994. She drove home after her shift at 11.45pm and went to her bedroom to set the alarm for an early morning doctor’s appointment.

Police say someone she knew entered the home between midnight and 3am and killed her in the hallway.

Detectives concluded the killer must have known she was home alone at the time of the attack, despite the cars of both housemates visible parked side by side in the driveway.


The suspect, now 48, told police he once moved Membrey’s car that was blocking his sister’s vehicle.

But the sister told police he had not driven either car and she would never have asked him to move the vehicles, which were always parked side by side. The unit had parking for three cars with direct street access.

The killer tried to clean the bloodied crime scene, bundled the body into the boot of Membrey’s car wrapped in her doona and took her to an unknown location. Her body has never been found.

Witnesses told police the suspect would refer to the Membrey case, saying “Liz is in a safe place” and “They won’t find the body, there is a lot of bush around there”. A relative said when the suspect was asked about the missing woman he said: “She’s in a river.”