
The Backpacker Murders Pt. 1
Serial Killers
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The Mystery of Simon Schmeedel
Search teams discovered the skeletal remains of 21-year-old German tourist Simon Schmeedel in Australia's Belangolo State Forest. A short distance from the discarded shoe buried under sticks and leaves like the other bodies lay another skeleton. The woman had been stabbed and slashed, so brutal was the attack that her spinal cord was severed. Coming up, the phone calls that cracked the case open at last.
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