Anita Cobby, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anita Cobby

Australian nurse, beauty pageant contestant and murder victim

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1959

Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 02-Feb-1986

Profession: nurse, beauty pageant contestant

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Anita Lorraine Cobby (née Lynch) (2 November 1959 – 2 February 1986) was a 26-year-old Australian registered nurse and beauty pageant winner who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered while walking home from Blacktown railway station after dining out with two Sydney Hospital colleagues in Surry Hills, New South Wales, just before 10:00 p.m.
on 2 February 1986.
Two days after being reported missing, Cobby's body was discovered on a rural farm in Prospect.
Investigations led to the arrest of five men who were later convicted of her abduction, rape and murder on 10 June 1987 and each sentenced to life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole, on 16 June 1987.At the time of the killing, Cobby sustained multiple knife wounds and lacerations from barbed wire; her death was a result of a slit throat.
The murder received widespread media coverage, condemnation, and attention.