Anne Lovell

Lovell, Anne

Connie's Secret, Anne Lovell

REVIEW ADDED: Wed, 31/12/2008 - 2:28pm by Karen Chisholm

Author Anne Lovell found out by accident that her aunt, Connie Sommerlad, had been murdered by John Trevor Kelly in 1939. John Kelly goes down in Australian history with the dubious honour of being the last man to be hung in NSW.  Connie’s name had never been mentioned by any of the older...Read more

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Anne Lovell
True Crime

Connie's Secret

BOOK ADDED: Mon, 31/10/2011 - 1:30pm by Karen Chisholm

On 4 February 1939, Connie Sommerlad was brutally butchered and her brother left for dead in their family farmhouse in rural Tenterfield. 

It was a murder that would rock the tight-knit community; a murder made all the more shocking by the fact that their assailant was a local...Read more