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Maria Smith
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Maria Smith, 20, had been married just eight weeks when she answered a midmorning knock at the door of her Randwick unit in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
Standing on the other side of the door was a sexual predator and killer who police initially believed asked for a pencil and paper, on April 22, 1974. The student teacher was thought to have turned her back to help before he launched a vicious attack.
Ms Smith's body was found by her husband in the bedroom of their unit when he returned home from work later that day. She had been bound, gagged and raped before being strangled with her own stockings. Ms Smith's husband Steve is not a suspect.
New to my collection: A Japanese film program for Andy Warhol's BAD, 1977.
Maria Smith
Susan Tyrrell, Geraldine Smith and Maria Smith in Andy Warhol’s BAD, 1977.
