Episode 243: The Scarlet Letter Murder
On September 22, 1986, 23 year old Beth Barnard was brutally murdered in her home on Phillip Island, Australia. Beth was left with an “A” carved into her chest in reference to The Scarlet Letter, an 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which the main character is marked as an adulterer by being forced to wear an A on her chest. Beth had been having an affair with Fergus Cameron, a well-known member of the community who was married to a woman named Vivienne. Vivienne Cameron is Beth’s alleged killer, but she went missing after the murder and still has never been seen or heard from again… and some of the evidence doesn’t add up. Who killed Beth that night, and was Vivienne’s disappearance a cover-up?
Sources for this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svyvuAyHkK0
https://aveyen.medium.com/the-scarlet-a-murder-c3d1cdc514eb
https://www.mamamia.com.au/phillip-island-murder/
https://omny.fm/shows/true-crime-conversations/the-vanishing-of-vivienne-cameron
