By David Lohr
February 28, 2007
PORT ELLIOT, Australia (Crime Library ) — On the morning of February 20, a woman walking along the beach at Horseshoe Bay was shocked to discover the body of a young woman floating by the shoreline. She quickly summoned the help of a nearby stranger, and, together, they pulled the body from the shallow water. Despite their best efforts, neither of them was able to resuscitate her. An ambulance soon arrived, and shortly thereafter, the young girl was pronounced dead.
As police scoured the area looking for clues, they found jewelry and signs of a disturbance at a nearby area called Freeman's Knob. They have not yet elaborated on what those signs were. Nothing was found at the scene to help to identify the girl, and so she has been labeled a Jane Doe.
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| Carly Ryan |
At about 9:00 pm., the parents of an Adelaide Hills teenager called authorities to report their 15-year-old daughter missing. Unfortunately, the description of the teen matched the young girl whose body the police had at the morgue. Within the hour, police were able to make a positive identification. A nametag listing the girl as a Jane Doe was removed from the body, and replaced with one bearing the name Carly Ryan. According to her mother, she last saw Carly around noon the previous day, when she said she was going to hang out with a friend.
The day after her discovery, Victor Harbor Police announced that an autopsy had been conducted, and that Carly's death had been ruled a homicide. Police refused to comment on how she died, and would not confirm reports that she had been attacked, and then left to drown. However, they did say that two witnesses who had reported seeing Carly at the beach the day before her body was found had come forward.
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