Murder victim's family speaks out
FIRST ON 7: The daughter of a great-grandmother murdered in her home has told 7News she believes she knows who the killer is.
She fears he could strike again because he is linked to other murder cases.
The body of 64-year-old Bev Hanley was found in her Elizabeth North home in October 2010.
Her handbag is still missing.
“The day it happened I has said ‘I know who has done this’,” the victim’s daughter Robyn Schafer told 7News.
But the person Bev Hanley’s daughter and grand-daughter believed killed her is a free man.
Mrs Schafer said detectives quickly identified the same man as a suspect.
He knew Ms Hanley well, had his DNA taken and his home searched.
Years earlier, he was questioned over the 1998 murder of Phyllis Harrison.
And he has also been quizzed over the murder of Mt Gambier pensioner Stephen Newton.
The man hasn’t been charged over any of the deaths.
“How many families are going to suffer?” Mrs Schafer said.
She and her daughter are now calling on the police to ask the state government to put up money for a reward for information leading to an arrest.
The family especially wants anyone who has been in Ms Hanley’s house and hasn’t provided a DNA sample to come forward.
