March 1st, 1992 was Michele Brown’s twenty-fifth birthday, and she spent the first part of it at a friend’s house in Frankston, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. At some point in the early evening, she and her friend walked to a local grocery store, where Michele called her mother from a payphone, asking her to come to the Frankston train station in an hour to pick her up.
The friend walked back home, but Michele remained at the store. She was seen by witnesses walking away from the store shortly after seven p.m., and between eight and nine, a taxi driver claimed to have seen a woman fitting her description standing near the payphones at the Frankston train station.
However, when Michele’s mother arrived to pick her daughter up, Michele was nowhere to be found. Ms. Brown found this strange, as Michele was usually quite conscientious, but she wasn’t initially alarmed enough to alert authorities.
A week passed, though, and Ms. Brown hadn’t heard anything from Michele; at that point, she did start to worry, and the more time passed, the more panicked she became. On March 13th, Michele’s parents went to the police to report their daughter missing.
The next day, tragically, the Browns would discover what had become of Michele. An employee of a gun shop not far from the Frankston train station found Michele’s body in a shed behind the store. The remains were severely decomposed and the cause of death was not immediately apparent, but it was clear that she had been murdered.
Authorities offered a one-million-dollar reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction, and in particular sought more witnesses who had seen Michele at the train station on the night she disappeared.
More than thirty years have passed since the murder, and investigators as well as the Brown family are still hoping the case can be solved.
Crime Immemorial 