Anniversary Of The Homestead Murders In Jerilderie, Australia
“Hello? Hello there, is your mummy at home? She is, but she’s asleep Well, is Daddy there? Yeah, but he’s asleep too. He’s sleeping on the kitchen floor. Oh? Could you go wake mummy for me and tell her to come to the phone? I need to tell her something, can you do that for me? No, no. I don’t like mummy any more ‘cause mummy’s turning black.” This absolutely chilling phone call becomes even more haunting when the voice of 4-year old Tanya Lewis is heard. She was unaware that her father lay dead in the kitchen and her mother, dead and decomposing, in the bedroom. Jerilderie, Australia is a small farming town of just over 1,000 people. It is found in the Southern Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The town is notable due to the fact that its bank was robbed by the infamous Ned Kelly (the man who famously fought a gun battle with police
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