Murder Trial Interrupted When Accused Killer’s Alleged Victim Shows Up to Testify on His Behalf

When Natasha Ryan from Rockhampton, Australia, vanished without a trace, her family feared the worst. And soon authorities charged a suspect in her disappearance, and put him on trial.

The cops had even managed to extract a confession from the accused. But then something extraordinary happened.

The last person anyone expected to see at the trial showed up for testimony…

The Last Time

September 1998 was the very last time that anyone had seen schoolgirl Natasha Ryan from Rockhampton, in central Queensland, Australia. And news of what she’d been doing before she vanished made her family fear the worst.

He Chatted Her Up

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Witnesses claimed that the young 14-year-old teen had been talking to a man in an alleyway near the local cinema. Then, she seemingly disappeared from the face of the Earth, and she wasn’t the only one.

Others Went Missing Too

As it turns out, four other women had gone missing too. Julie Turner, 39, Beverly Leggo, 37, Sylvia Benedetti, 19, and Keyra Steinhardt, 9, had vanished from the small town in Queensland.

Unlike Ryan, their bodies were eventually found.

Fear Paralyzed Rockhampton

Rockhampton residents were terrified. They wouldn’t go to the movie theater, and they refused to drive at night. Eventually, everyone in town stopped going out.

But cops had one prime suspect in mind.