Murder of Jaidyn Leskie

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The murder of Jaidyn Leskie occurred in 1997, believed to have been caused by head injuries. Leskie's body was found at the Blue Rock Dam, near Moe, Victoria, Australia, on 1 January 1998, six months after his disappearance from a Newborough home. A child of Bilynda Murphy (now Williams) and Brett Leskie, Leskie's murder remains unsolved, despite intense public interest, several leads, and the arrest and 1998 trial of a prime suspect, Greg Domaszewicz (), Murphy's boyfriend, who was acquitted of murder, following a trial by jury. A decision was made in 2002 not to hold an inquest into the toddler's death and the case remained in the news for several more years. An inquest was later held in 2006, implicating Domaszewicz, who at the time of the kidnapping was babysitting the child. The exact circumstances of Leskie's disappearance and death were never clear, and were complicated by vandalism at the house on the evening of the toddler's disappearance; several false tips and pranks about the...

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