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Betty Shanks murder was an event in Brisbane's history that was to change the town overnight and remains one of Queensland's oldest unsolved murder cases.

Overview
On the night of 19 September 1952, 22 year old Betty Shanks got off a tram at Days Rd. Terminus in the Grange, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, and started her short walk home. Her violently beaten body was found in the garden of a house on the corner of Carberry and Thomas Streets the next morning at 5.35 am, by a policeman who lived near by. At the time it was Queenslands' biggest ever criminal investigation, as of 2010 a reward of A$50,000 is still current.

The Investigation
An attack by a sex offender was considered very early in the investigation. Alternately the murderer attacked the wrong woman and was actually interested in the doctor's receptionist who also walked home down the same street at the same time and would have had keys to the surgery which would have contained drugs.