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The blind alley in a straight street
Retired butcher John Magill has helped crack some of Australia’s most baffling crimes, but the one that drives him – the murder of his daughter – remains agonisingly out of reach.
The murder of Jane Thurgood-Dove, gunned down in the driveway of her Niddrie home 23 years ago next week, is a crime that should not have happened and could have been solved if not for a series of blind alleys and dead ends.
- John Silvester
- The Age
From day one, the answer was literally up the road, although it would …