Juanita Nielsen

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Juanita Joan Nielsen (née Smith; 22 April 1937 – disappeared 4 July 1975) was an Australian newspaper publisher, urban conservationist, and heiress. She disappeared after attending a meeting at the Carousel nightclub (also called Les Girls) in Kings Cross in Sydney on 4 July 1975. Her body has never been found. Nielsen opposed urban development on Victoria Street, Kings Cross, Sydney, initiated by property developer Frank Theeman. She also opposed his development of the nearby suburb of Woolloomooloo. It is generally believed that she was killed because of her conservationism, and there have been strong suspicions of involvement of organised crime and corrupt police. In the early 1980s, two men associated with Kings Cross crime boss Abe Saffron were jailed for conspiracy to kidnap Nielsen based on incidents leading up to her disappearance. A coronial inquest in November 1983 determined that Nielsen had been killed but did not identify how she died or who killed her. In 1994, a Federal parliamentary...

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