Vic: Two women found murdered in Robinvale house

AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2001
Vic: Two women found murdered in Robinvale house

MELBOURNE, April 1 AAP - Two women have been found murdered in a house in Robinvale
on the Victoria-New South Wales border.

Police believed a weapon had been used, but it was not yet known how the women, one
aged in her 50s and the other her 20s, died, Channel Nine reported.

It said an unknown number of children who were at the house in Victoria's far north
west may have witnessed the killings and had been taken into police care.

The women's bodies were found in separate rooms by a family member when he returned
to the house in Latje Road at about 1pm, a police spokswoman said.

He ran into the street and flagged down a passing police patrol.

Channel Nine said the man had been gone from the house since 7am.

Inspector Rod Johns told reporters: "Upon entering the house they discovered the bodies
of two females; it appears a murder has been committed there."

It is not known whether they were related, or their relationship to the man who found them.

About two hours later, at 3pm, a vehicle missing from the house was found in Swan Hill,
about 100 kilometres south, police said.

A red Ford econovan, registered to the Robinvale household, and found in Swan Hill's
main shopping precinct, Channel Nine reported.

As a result of the find all trains and buses and some cars leaving Swan Hill were being
checked, it said.

A crime scene had been set up in the area of the van and detectives from Swan Hill
and Mildura called in.

Houses in Robinvale were being doorknocked.

Homicide detectives are on their way to the town from Melbourne.

A police spokeswoman was unable to confirm or deny the Channel Nine report.

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KEYWORD: ROBINVALE LEAD

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