Headless Body | The Kim Barry Murder | Serial Killer Documentary
On Sunday, 8 February 1981, apprentice plumber Scott Davies was on a track leading down from Jamberoo Mountain Lookout, looking for dumped car parts to repair his old Holden, when he found the naked body of a young woman lodged against a tree. The body was face-down, in a crouching position. The wrists have been tied to the ankles with a bone-coloured bra and a blouse was wrapped around her arm. Her head was obscured from view. Davies scrambled back up the mountain and alerted police.
When police recovered the body, it was found that the head, in fact, was not obscured from view but had been cut off at the neck. Additionally, the woman’s fingers on both hands had been cut off at the knuckles. The fingers on the right hand had been removed with a hacksaw, the left hand fingers had been removed with pliers. The post mortem showed that these had been removed after death, that her right arm was broken, and that there was no evidence of sexual assault. It also showed no cause of death.
As drug gangs at the time were known to dispose of their couriers and cut off their heads and fingers to avoid identification of the bodies, NSW Police initially suspected the crime was drug-related. They tried to identify the body by checking its palm prints against their database, a task which at the time needed to be done by eye. This revealed no match with any palm prints held on file. Not knowing what else to do to identify the body, the police released photographs of the bra and blouse found with it.
Beverley Barry returned to her Mt. Pleasant home in time to catch the news. She recognised the clothing as that belonging to her daughter, Kim, who had been missing since Friday night. She and Kim’s father, Brian, contacted police and identified the body as Kim’s by a heart-shaped birthmark below her breast.
Title: Headless Body | The Kim Barry Murder | Serial Killer Documentary
Published on Mar 1, 2016
Uploaded by: Serial Killers Documentary
When police recovered the body, it was found that the head, in fact, was not obscured from view but had been cut off at the neck. Additionally, the woman’s fingers on both hands had been cut off at the knuckles. The fingers on the right hand had been removed with a hacksaw, the left hand fingers had been removed with pliers. The post mortem showed that these had been removed after death, that her right arm was broken, and that there was no evidence of sexual assault. It also showed no cause of death.
As drug gangs at the time were known to dispose of their couriers and cut off their heads and fingers to avoid identification of the bodies, NSW Police initially suspected the crime was drug-related. They tried to identify the body by checking its palm prints against their database, a task which at the time needed to be done by eye. This revealed no match with any palm prints held on file. Not knowing what else to do to identify the body, the police released photographs of the bra and blouse found with it.
Beverley Barry returned to her Mt. Pleasant home in time to catch the news. She recognised the clothing as that belonging to her daughter, Kim, who had been missing since Friday night. She and Kim’s father, Brian, contacted police and identified the body as Kim’s by a heart-shaped birthmark below her breast.
Title: Headless Body | The Kim Barry Murder | Serial Killer Documentary
Published on Mar 1, 2016
Uploaded by: Serial Killers Documentary
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