About this episode

Joy Membrey discusses her long search for her daughter Elisabeth's body and the new developments in the investigation.

For more than 30 years, Joy and Roger Membrey – before he died in 2023 – have been hunting for answers over the murder of their 22-year-old daughter, Elisabeth. Elisabeth, a politics graduate who had been offered a trainee journalist position with Channel Ten, went missing from her sharehouse in 1994. Police believe she was killed in the hallway and taken from the scene, though her body has never been found. There have been false dawns. First, the Membreys were told by police they found the killer. But he was cleared. And now, there is a new suspect. Today, John Silvester speaks to Elisabeth's mother Joy about her enduring quest to find her daughter's body, and police investigator Andrew Stamper about the new investigation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: John Silvester

Guests: Joy Membrey, Andrew Stamper

Topics covered

• cold case
• murder investigation
• missing person
• family quest
• new suspect
• true crime

Keywords

• cold case
• murder
• Elisabeth Membrey
• Joy Membrey
• investigation
• new suspect
• true crime

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Channel Ten

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