On December 18th, 1992, thirteen-year-old Clare Morrison was at Geelong Mall in Victoria, Australia. She told her friend that she was going to take the bus back home to get some more money to finish her Christmas shopping, but she never returned.
The following morning, a group of surfers near Bells Beach found the body of the young girl washed up on the shore. She had been beaten and strangled to death, and her remains bore several shark bites, indicating she’d spent some time in the water.
Authorities had few leads to go on, though one purported witness, an eighteen-year-old man named Shane McLaren, claimed he had seen Clare getting into a blue Holden Commodore with two men. Later on, however, police discovered that McLaren had made this story up, and arrested him for perjury. His deception as well as his history of drug addiction led law enforcement to believe he was a suspect in Clare’s murder, and though he remains the only living suspect, there doesn’t appear to be enough evidence to charge him.
In 2017, Clare’s brother Andrew gave an interview to the media in which he asserted that his sister had gone to the cliff overlooking Bells Beach in a car with about eight friends and that one of them must have known what happened to her.
The case remains open and unsolved.
Crime Immemorial 