Case 340: Elisabeth Membrey
When 22-year-old aspiring journalist Elisabeth Membrey failed to answer her phone on December 7 1994, her loved ones knew something was wrong. A visit to her Ringwood East unit confirmed their suspicions when blood stains were found on the carpet, but Elisabeth herself was nowhere to be seen.
With Elisabeth’s disappearance declared to be a homicide, her parents, Roger and Joy Membrey, refused to give up the search for answers. But with one twist after another, they could never have anticipated the journey that lay ahead.
Team:
Anonymous Host - narration
Elsha McGill - research, writing
Mike Migas - production, music
Anthony Telfer - audio editing
Comments (16)
I feel sick seeing some of the comments on the Casefile subreddit about this episode. What is happening to the listenership of this podcast? Complaining because you think a case “wasn’t up to par” or was a “waste of time”? A human being died, was dumped, and her parents never got closure OR justice for her. The callous disregard people have for episodes that don’t “titillate” them is horrible. Given the shocking amount of women and children who are killed by men in this country every week, this episode was absolutely relevant and deserved to be told. RIP Elizabeth.
What is a "subreddit"?
So sad! Crazy that I've never even heard about this. I live so close to where it happened and drive down that street many times a week. I'm hoping advances in DNA can help zero in on a suspect.
Poor Elisabeth and her family. Also, going up behind someone and putting your balls in their hand as a "prank" should get you 25 to life no parole
Yeah that’s… a whole weird level of ick.
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Having played indoor cricket, I am struggling to imagine an injury that could leave someone with a limp. The defence in the Bond case made a good point. Innocent people can be made to look guilty by cherry picking circumstantial evidence. And yet you get countless people online who are "certain" of who the culprit is in various cases. The worst example was the disappearance of Cleo Smith 5 years ago when everyone was accusing her parents just because they didn't show grief the way they expected they should. None felt inclined to apologise when she was found alive in the home of another man who had abducted her. One even had the gall to suggest he had been set up.
The Bond case had so little evidence I was surprised they even decided to prosecute, a bit scary tbh. If he’d been unlucky with the jury he could’ve been convicted.
Oh my god, thank you for covering this case!! Justice for Elisabeth. Feels underrepresented in the Australian general public’s knowledge of high profile true crime cases.
Man, I don't know if it's because I hate feeling like a burden or if I'm just so familiar with the effects on the family of someone who's done a swan dive off the mortal coil, but if something has happened to me and you're *pretty* sure I'm dead and the leads have all dried up, just let it go. There comes a certain point where if no one can give you closure, you have to get up and close it yourself. Think fondly of me, but put the katana down, Prince Hamlet. You won't like where this space cowboy and his motley crew are headed. (unless I die because of a corrupt private health insurance company's evil policies, then by all means, triple-D that dumbfuck.)
there are so many cold cases that only get solved because of the family's refusal to give up. And you have to consider, too, especially with advances in DNA, that advocating for a victim even decades later has recently become a huge impetus in solving so many cold cases, especially here in the US thanks to genetic genealogy. It's harder in a case like this where it seems like there's very little DNA evidence. But had the family not kept fighting for answers, it's likely Andrew Crump's name wouldn't even have risen to the top of the casefile. I'm not sure what to make of the DNA evidence against him, but surely having more information in the case is better than not.
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Yessss! Welcome back! 🥹❤️