The Tragic Tale of the Soos in Easy Street

If you ask a Melbourne local, almost all of them would have heard of the 1977 Easey Street murders.

In one of Victoria’s most brutal unsolved killings, two women in their 20s were stabbed dozens of times in their home on Easey Street in Collingwood.

Now, after 47 years and examining over 130 “persons of interest”, police have finally made an arrest.

Today, journalist and author of Murder on Easey St Helen Thomas, on the killings that haunted Melbourne and the suspect – known as “the boy with the knife” – that police overlooked for decades.

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Guest: Journalist and author of Murder on Easey St, Helen Thomas.

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