Clontarf House Kidnapping Research Paper

A squad of detectives were assigned the job of tracing the vehicle. Some 4,000 vehicles with engine numbers bearing prefixes SQ or ASQ were on record on the DMT. The job of tracing and interviewing the owners of these 4,000 cars, was quickly set in movement. Graeme's school case was found behind a school's monument at the side of a main road. However, Graeme's body was not found until the 16th of August, a month after the kidnapping. The body was discovered close to the side of a fence by two schoolboys, wrapped in a rug. The body was discovered close to the side of a fence by two schoolboys. An autopsy was held on the body, and police found that Graeme's body was in an advanced stage of rotting. There was a patch of bruises on the right side of the neck, …show more content…
Death was caused by the head injury or asphyxia, or a combination of both. It seemed that death had most probably occurred within a day of the kidnapping. A house in Clontarf, around three kilometres from the spot where Graeme’s body was found had been suspected after having relation to crucial police evidence. At the time of the kidnapping the house had been inhabited by a Hungarian man named Stephen Leslie Bradley, along with his wife Magda, and three children. A pale-blue tassel, found in the Clontarf house, corresponded with tassels on the rug that Graeme had been wrapped inside of. A search for Bradley revealed that he had left Sydney for the United Kingdom with his wife and their children on the 26th September, 1960. During the flight to Sydney, Bradley lost his calmness and told the escorting police that he had in fact committed the crime. In Sydney, he was persuaded to write out a confession for them. In his confession he claimed that the boy’s death had been accidental and resulted from him being placed in the boot of the Ford, which he had locked in the garage at his Clontarf home. He further declare that when he opened the car boot later in the afternoon, he found Graeme to be