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In the News (Sun 8 Nov 09)

  
  Encyclopedia: Janelle Patton
Ron Patton: For example, we went down the Cockpit where Janelle was found, and at the time, as I remember it, it seemed to be quite large and quite wide open, and yet when we went there the other day, it was smaller, it was sort of closer.
Carol Patton: As the afternoon wore on, and she didn’t meet up with us as planned, we drove up to where we knew she was living, and we found her car in the drive and we thought, ‘Oh, she must be here’, like we were a bit annoyed, she was supposed to be meeting us.
Ron Patton: A line in the sand has to be drawn as far as what’s happened to Janelle and other things on the Island, and I suppose you have to make a choice between good or evil, right or wrong, whether you’re going to support the police or ignore the law and the police.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Janelle-Patton   (457 words)

  
 Janelle Patton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Janelle Patton was a Sydney woman who was brutally murdered on Norfolk Island in 2002.
The case made national headlines in Australia, as she was the first person to be murdered there since 1855, when the island was a penal colony.
Patton was living and working on the island at the time of her death, but was not a local.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Janelle_Patton   (148 words)

  
 DeRLAS Vol. 5 No. 2 Munro
Janelle Patton, on the other hand, was a vivacious 29 year old, a “TP” (temporary resident) or “blow-in” working in hospitality on Norfolk Island, the former penal colony settled by descendents of some of the Bounty mutineers.
Janelle Patton had by all accounts become rather well known in the insular community, involving herself in projects and having had a couple of relationships with residents.
Janelle Patton's mother, Carol, and father, Ron, speak to the media at the Norfolk Island courthouse yesterday.
www.udel.edu /LASP/Vol5-2Munro.html   (11048 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Go down the Patton’s hallway, open the door on the left and there is the room Janelle lived in for most of the first 25 years of her life.
Except she won’t, and Carol Patton, who has taught maths for 16 years at Granville Boys’ High School in Sydney’s west, is quick to say the room is not a shrine to Janelle, who worked for IBM in Sydney before going to the island.
Janelle had been wrapped in a sheet of fl builders’ plastic in a beautiful, sheltered grassy valley in the Cockpit Reserve, far away from when she was seen out on her walk.
bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/printing/A15CC6D923B21250CA256D6D002E3D07   (2587 words)

  
 IOL: Island murder reads like Agatha Christie
Janelle Patton, 29, was stabbed and beaten to death on March 31, 2002 her body wrapped in fl plastic and dumped at a picnic spot.
Patton, a casual worker from Sydney, was an outsider among Norfolk Island's tightknit population, which descends from a small band of 18th-century English mutineers who rebelled against Captain William Bligh aboard the Bounty.
Patton's brutal murder - her skull, pelvis and three ribs were fractured and a stab wound punctured her lung - has rocked Norfolk's modern, tourist-friendly image.
www.int.iol.co.za /?set_id=1&click_id=2024&art_id=qw1086071223968B265   (773 words)

  
 PM - 'Persons of interest' named in Norfolk Island inquest
Now all evidence so far has been that Janelle Patton was excited to see her parents and was looking forward to the week that they were going to spend with her on the island.
Janelle Patton was severely injured and police say she put up an almighty fight to her attacker.
So obviously police looked at her as somebody who had had a past with Janelle Patton, a part history of animosity, and so they went of course with their investigation to her as well, but police also stress that she has been completely cooperative with police in their investigation.
www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2004/s1119915.htm   (832 words)

  
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Janelle Patton, a 29-year Sydneysider, was brutally murdered — the coroner revealed 64 separate injuries to her body, including a fractured skull, broken pelvis and numerous stab wounds.
In the meantime Ron and Carole Patton, Janelle's parents, say that she was not only physically brutalised to death, but then again in the court when details of her failed relationships, quarrels, drinking habits, even intimate diary thoughts, were all revealed.
Instead, Janelle's body was dumped in the middle of this open field, which is not only a picnic spot but it's overlooked by several houses and frequented by tourists, some of whom were here on that day.
nisdv.bravehost.com /Janelle.html   (11579 words)

  
 ABC Radio National - Background Briefing: 30 March  2003  - Murder on Norfolk Island: One year later, who ...
Janelle suffered multiple sharp wounds, many of them defensive, suggesting she fought hard for life and lost a great deal of blood.
It was only after Janelle’s body was found that then they realised there was a problem, or the police would have then connected us with her, which happened.
Janelle Patton’s murder was sensationally reported as the first in 150 years.
www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/bbing/stories/s821848.htm   (6727 words)

  
 Woman's Day True Crime
Hardened convicts removed to the island from the Australian mainland in the 18th century had considered Norfolk a hell on earth and had prayed for death; for Janelle Patton, Norfolk had been paradise, and it is likely that she had prayed on that holiday afternoon for her life to be spared.
Janelle Patton was an attractive young woman with long, dark hair and a feisty character; she wasn't someone who was afraid to stand by her principles or to speak her mind.
Carol Patton's faith in the thoroughness of the police investigation has rarely wavered, but she has never underestimated the toughness of the challenge of penetrating the island's wall of silence.
womansday.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=53797   (867 words)

  
 maitland.yourguide
Ms Patton's daughter Janelle, 29, was stabbed and bashed 64 times before her body was found on the island's Cockpit Waterfall Reserve.
Janelle didn't turn up - but her body was found soon afterward.
"Janelle had been stabbed and bashed - with 64 injuries to her body - which was then dumped.
maitland.yourguide.com.au /detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=367884&y=2005&m=2   (300 words)

  
 Recent news articles on Norfolk Island (4NEWZ.com)
NORFOLK Island was Janelle Patton's paradise, but everywhere she went in the tiny, notoriously insular community, little bombs would go off.
Janelle Patton's private life on Norfolk Island - her lovers, fights and fears - was opened like a stolen diary yesterday.
TWO years after Janelle Patton was murdered on idyllic Norfolk Island, police are hoping a tattered sheet of plastic and a broken pair of woman's sunglasses...
www.4newz.net /new/world/Norfolk_Island.html   (4011 words)

  
 Parents' pain and pride: she was our girl and we loved her - National - www.smh.com.au
The Pattons have heard 14 other persons of interest named as targets of inquiry by police investigating the murder of 29-year-old Janelle, whose body was found at Cockpit Waterfall Reserve on March 31, 2002.
Yesterday, the Pattons heard Mr Cahill ponder the significance of post-mortem evidence that Janelle, who it does not appear was sexually assaulted, had a tampon in place when she was killed.
Mrs Patton said the inquest, which Mr Cahill is due to complete today, had exposed inconsistencies, contradictions and obvious gaps in statements some persons of interest had made to police.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/02/1086058923615.html   (657 words)

  
 Transcript: A murder mystery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
RON PATTON: She was doing things where she was appreciated and she could feel a part of the community.
He's retraced Janelle Patton's final steps many times, but this is the first time with her parents.
CAROL PATTON: I do think there are probably some people on Norfolk Island who are very wary of us coming back and perhaps we just remind them of what happened here and it's something that some of them don't want to constantly be reminded about.
sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au /sixtyminutes/stories/2003_08_10/story_925.asp?MSID=f92789af23d64948b39d3e8ce2474efc   (2029 words)

  
 Death exposes an island's secrets - World - www.theage.com.au
Right: Janelle Patton's family with coroner Ron Cahill, in the blue shirt, at the site where she was found dead.
Outside the walls around the former military barracks built in 1832 were tour buses and lowing cows, but inside Ron and Carolyn Patton listened as their daughter was described fighting mightily for perhaps 15 minutes as she was bashed, slashed and stabbed to death by sharp and blunt instruments.
Patton was a hospitality worker who had lived on the island for two years.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/06/04/1086203626722.html?from=storylhs   (1950 words)

  
 Norfolk murder shrouded in secrecy | WORLD | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Janelle Patton was murdered on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2002.
Police are in the unique position of knowing the name of Janelle's killer - they have a list of all 2771 people who were on the island that day.
When police were trying to identify prints lifted from the plastic that had covered Janelle's body, 1311 residents volunteered their hand and fingerprints, as did 262 of the 690 visitors on Norfolk the day of the murder.
tvnz.co.nz /view/news_world_story_skin/428330%3fformat=html   (821 words)

  
 CNN.com - Norfolk Islanders keen to lend police a hand - August 13, 2002
Police hope the finger and handprinting will spark a breakthrough in the investigation into the murder of hotel worker Janelle Patton on Norfolk Island on March 31 this year.
Handprints and fingerprints were found on exhibits associated with Patton's body, which was near a picturesque waterfall.
Patton, 29, was found stabbed to death and partially covered in plastic.
www.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/12/norfolk.murdermystery/index.html   (481 words)

  
 Norfolk Islander in Janelle Patton murder case fights local elections - World - www.smh.com.au
Mr Jope was one of 16 people of interest named by police in June at a coronial inquest into the murder of Ms Patton, and he was one of the few it was suggested who could be linked to her body by forensic evidence.
Mr Jope, who met Ms Patton at a party about one month before her murder, was seen on the day of her memorial service parked in his Chevrolet utility at Queen Elizabeth Lookout, above the Kingston church.
The head of the Patton murder inquiry, Detective Sergeant Bob Peters of the Australian Federal Police, said: "The investigation is continuing and is still being actively pursued".
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/10/05/1096949512007.html   (529 words)

  
 16 quizzed but no suspect - National - www.theage.com.au
But the possibility that Ms Patton was killed by someone she was involved with prompted several lines of inquiry.
Ron and Carol Patton, who had arrived on the island to visit their 29-year-old daughter the day before she was killed, said they were distressed, but not surprised, to be named as persons of interest.
There was friction between Ms Patton and Ms Menghetti, whom she partly blamed for the end of the relationship.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/06/01/1086058849264.html?from=moreStories   (535 words)

  
 NARTH 2004 Annual Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Janelle Hallman, M.A., L.P.C. Janelle Hallman is a licensed professional counselor specializing in treating women who are in conflict about same-sex attractions and emotional dependencies.
Janelle regularly supervises and consults other therapists seeking to understand the clinical issues surrounding the lesbian condition and has also taught extensively on the issue of homosexuality, gender issues and Biblical sexuality at national and international conferences, seminars and churches.
Janelle currently resides in Arvada, Colorado with her husband and 17-year-old daughter.
www.narth.com /docs/2004conference2.html   (1743 words)

  
 The World Today - Norfolk Island inquest into death of Janelle Patton has begun
It was revealed yesterday that Ms Patton's own parents were named on that list, but the Coroner insisted it was only to quell rumours circulating on the Island, that they had something to do with their daughter's murder.
Ms Patton's body was found on Easter Sunday, 2002, with stab wounds and broken bones, wrapped in fl plastic.
She lived alone on the island in a little cottage that was associated with the house of another woman who lived here, and the Coroner will visit there just once again to dot the i's and cross the t's of the investigation and make sure that everything has been properly investigated.
www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1120480.htm   (905 words)

  
 IOL: Islanders give finger to their first murderer
Until now it was best known as the place where descendents of the mutineers from the HSM Bounty settled after they were removed from their original home at Pitcairn Island.
But the modern world caught up with the island when Janelle Patton, a 29-year-old restaurant manager, was found dead on March 31, her battered body wrapped in plastic sheeting and dumped in a secluded picnic spot.
Patton's Sydney-based parents, Carolyn and Ron, appealed for the community to participate in the exercise.
www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1028801160584B223   (503 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | world news Aus tries to solve island's only murder
Australia on Thursday tripled a reward for clues to solving the only murder in the history of a remote island outpost that was settled by descendents of mutineers from the HMS Bounty.
After two years of fruitless investigation, Justice Minister Chris Ellison said the reward for information leading to the conviction of the killer of Janelle Patton on Norfolk Island was being raised from A$100 000 ($74 000) to A$300 000.
The 29-year-old restaurant manager's stabbed body was found wrapped in plastic sheeting and dumped at a secluded picnic spot, in the first recorded murder in almost 150 years of settlement on the island.
iafrica.com /news/worldnews/310494.htm   (291 words)

  
 Man charged over Norfolk murder | WORLD | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A coroner was unable to say who killed 29-year-old Janelle Patton, a worker from Sydney and handed down an open verdict last month.
Patton suffered 64 fractures and multiple stab wounds.
Her body was wrapped in fl plastic and dumped in bushes.
tvnz.co.nz /view/news_world_story_skin/437061%3fformat=html   (279 words)

  
 Guardian | Murder in paradise unsettles islanders
Most worrying for the islanders is the possibility that a local - and not one of the 680 tourists from Australia and New Zealand who are also being fingerprinted - could be responsible.
She had been stabbed, beaten and wrapped in fl plastic, but her body was still warm.
But Patton was an outsider, born in Sydney and working out a temporary entry permit, a so-called Tep.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4479847-103681,00.html   (327 words)

  
 ELFIS FORUM - Surveillance Society - Entire island fingerprinted in murder hunt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Everyone between the ages of 15 and 70 has been asked to give prints as part of a police investigation into the death of a woman on the island, which is 1,000 miles off the Australian coast.
It will involve as many as 1,600 locals and 680 tourists who visited the island in March, when the body of Janelle Patton, 29, was found wrapped in plastic near a picturesque waterfall.
Ms Patton, from Sydney, was the manager of a hotel restaurant on the island.
www.elfis.net /phorum/read.php?f=35&i=108&t=108   (378 words)

  
 norfolk island
A dozen people were yesterday named to complete the list of 16 "persons of interest" to police investigating Janelle Patton's brutal death on Norfolk Island.
Aged 18 to 56 at the time of the murder, they include one of her closest island friends; a "pervert" she may never have met; a man who empties septic tanks for a living; and a woman who was the local administration's chief executive officer.
Two were linked to forensic evidence found with Ms Patton's body - one to flecks of green paint found in her hair and on her shorts, and another to fl plastic sheeting presumed to have been used to transport the corpse.
www.cracker.com.au /Viewthread.aspx?threadid=5759&categoryid=11295   (230 words)

  
 Wayne Patton Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He was born Sept. 18, 1947 in the Williamsport, a son of the late Kenneth C. Patton and the former Catherine D. Pickens.
Patton graduated in 1967 from the Warrior Run High School, and from Villanova University, with a bachelor's degree in physics, in 1971.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Wayne Patton, Watsontown RD 1, who died Friday morning, February 22, 1985.
www.gojp.com /genealogy/waynepatton.html   (255 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Mass printing may finger 'Bounty island' murderer
Police have flown to the island from the Australian mainland, 900 miles away, in an effort to catch the killer of Janelle Patton, 29, who was stabbed to death in March.
But the idyll was shattered when Miss Patton, a Sydney restaurant manager who had lived on the island for two and a half years, was murdered, wrapped in plastic and dumped near a waterfall.
First in line to have his prints taken yesterday was the island's chief minister, Geoff Gardner, who said he hoped that the operation would quash the "suspicion, rumour and innuendo" that had haunted residents.
news.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/13/wbount13.xml   (401 words)

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