Palmerville owners charged with murder (Palmer Goldfields, NQld )

This was an incident reported in July.See here. And here.

Is there something new on the subject?

Here is a link to the ABC Story

Palmer River Murder

Alan, Lynn

Yes Palmerville have been in previous threads but there is no way to 'bump'an old thread with new news. And yes Alan, as you realised this is new (breaking) news.

And this part of the world is quite beutiful, and specially now there is no reason to avoid it! That is the bottom line, really. Not being disrespectful of the situation, those involved and the missing man's family, the spin-off of this is that I will now take my family that way again. Wonderful tracks and scenery in the area, one can now have this as a destination without having to take detours, and it makes for a wonderful addition for those doing the Maytown trip (for the experienced fourwheeldrivers only if doing it solo)

This forum has provided several ideas for places I'd like to visit. Looks like this time I found out where to avoid!

I Heard today that a body of an adult and a child was found in the Palmer River Station's dam!

This is from local sources, so can not verify the accuracy as yet

Regards Tony

Hi
They were Gun ho way back 20 years ago
WE had gone into Maytown via Maitlands
2nd day a 4wheel dive roars right besides our camp out jumps this bloke with rifle @ the ready while she sat in the truck with another rifle sticking out the window
Wife near had a heart attack & screamed
He demanded to know what we where doing there & claimed it was private property .
Ordered us to leave immediately . but I told him, no way WE had came in a long way & would not be leaving until we had a good look around @ the history of the place.If he wished to remove he should call the police or have us charged with tresspassing
He backed of a bit & said OK as long as we did not cross the river@Maytown on the track back to Palmerville
We stayed about a week from memory & on the last day had another visit from both, this time a liitle freindlier she got out & chatted to my wife
He gave me a long tales of woes & problems he had sufferred at the hands of miners,prospectors, 4wders, hippies, etc & actually apologised to my wife for the fright he gave her

They have been granted bail .....................

Palmer River murder suspects granted bail

I was up that way on the 12th of November for the eclipse.

Me and a mate were at Maytown, waiting around.
There was a couple from overseas camped nearby who we got talking to.
They said they were there for the eclipse as well and they were told that there was a party at Palmer River station homestead.
I knew there was a party at Palmer River Roadhouse or thereabouts but had not heard about a party at the station. We expressed our doubts to the couple about the likelyhood of a party due to the murder and the lack of vehicles heading in that direction.

In the morning we guided them across the river as they only had a soft roader. I pointed in the direction of the station and advise them of the directions.

My mate then offered our services to guide them all the way as we had time on our hands.

I agreed to this as we couldn't really let a couple of foreighners go in there by themselves as we were not sure if the owners we out on bail or not, and thought that as aussies would be in a better position to plead for our lives if confronted with murderers.

So.....I led the group of three vehicles towards the homestead from Maytown. My mate took the rear to watch our backs.

We crossed a couple a flowing creeks and I thought to myself, what the hell are we doing here. The chances of an eclipse party was so very slim and we were heading towards the residence of alleged murderers who may be or may not be out on bail.

Me and the dog got closer to the homestead, a poor old cow got off the road and almost fell over it was so sick (maybe starving).

We arrived at the homestead about 25 metres away and here I noticed the gate across the road, also about 25 metres away. I did not check to see if the gate was locked. I stayed in the vehicle. The was no party here thats for sure.

There was a little dog barking behing the homestead fence I did not see anybody and would not have felt a laser on my forehead as there was that much sweat on my brow.

I looked in the rear vision mirror for the others but they were not visible. They were not that far behind I thought.

I stayed perfectly still so they could get me with a clean headshot through the curtains if they wanted too as I didn't want to die a slow painful death if they missed.

My mate and new friends then came up the rise behind me after what was probably 2 or 3 minutes but seemed like an eternity.

My mate pulled up beside me I wound the window down and I said to him. "Lets get out of here".

So we went back the way we came.