TEMPORARY POST: Barbara Wilkinson, 29, formerly of Central Man grove, was charged with murdering six of her newborns at Wahroonga between 1961 and 1968. Her husband was unaware. She confessed to police and showed them the shallow graves of three, according to Detective-Sergeant William Thomas Holmes, of Gosford.
The following sources will be available online shortly. At the moment they appear only in fragments on Trove.com – “Six Dead Babies - Mother said to have confessed,” The Canberra Times, Apr. 30, 1969, p. 3; “Infanticide charge laid,”The Canberra Times, Apr. 30, 1969, p. 3.
