✝️ (Adele Evelyn) Bailey, age 23, transgender – August 1978, Bonny Doon, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺💔
(Adele) was born Paul David Bailey (later added an e to the name), in Auckland / New Zealand in 1955 and came to Australia at the age of 17 and soon after had surgery for breast implants at Sydney Private Hospital.
Four years later (Adele) travelled to Cairo and underwent a number of full „sex-change operations“.
When (Adele) came back from Cairo, the involvement in prostitution started. In 1978 (Adele) told friends about a planned visit, but never turned up.
17 years later on a property near the one owned by Detective Seargant Denis Tanner in country Victoria two boys found down a disused mineshaft bones and an old assortment of clothes. (Adele) could be identified due to dentist records.
During the police investigation two former police detectives, among them Tanner, were questiones. (Adele)`s sister spoke of a letter she had received in which (Adele) had claimed to be in a relationship with Tanner, which he denied. (Adele) also wrote about being afraid about a court case where she was to give evidence against him.
In 1984, Jennifer Tanner of Bonnie Doon, Denis Tanner’s sister-in-law, had been shot twice in the head, and in both hands, using a rifle that needed reloading. The police initially declared it to be suicide. The coroner delivered an open finding, and criticized the police investigation. In 1988 Tanner was promoted to sergeant. In 1990 he was taken off the drug squad after allegations that he leaked information.
Later the same year as (Adele)`s skeleton was found, Tanner’s farmhouse was burnt down. The police and others assumed a link between the two killings, and Denis Tanner was the only person who knew both, Adele and Jennifer.
In 2010, 32 years after the murder of (Adele), there was a breakthrough in the investigation. Evidence was given to the Office of Police Integrity that (Adele) was at a party with several police officers and performed sex on one of them (not Denis Tanner).
He later that evening found out that (Adele) was trans, went berserk and beat her to death. The other officers present covered it up. A witness claimed there was circumstantial evidence that suggested Mr Tanner might have assisted in the disposal of the body.