The Mysterious Phillip Island Murder

When 23-year-old Beth Barnard was discovered brutally murdered in a farmhouse in Phillip Island in 1986, her murder sparked an investigation that has haunted locals ever since. Her throat was cut, and she had a huge letter A carved into her chest. On the same night that Beth died, another local woman, Vivienne Cameron, vanished off the face of the earth. A police investigation revealed that Beth had been having an affair with Vivienne's husband. What really happened that night remains one of Victoria's most baffling murder mysteries. Welcome to Crime Shots - short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.