50th Murderer – Barry Gordon Hadlow - Victim: Sandra Dorothy Bacon, 5 and Stacey-Anne Tracy, 9
Nine year old, Stacey-Anne Tracy, was walking to school in Roma Qld on the morning of May 22, 1990 when Barry Hadlow abducted her, committing his vile crimes before dumping her body in Bungil Creek.
He was out on parole after 22 years for the murder of Townsville girl Sandra Dorothy Bacon.
Sandra Dorothy Bacon, murdered age 5 Stacey-Anne Tracy, murdered 9 years old
"Hadlow never told anyone what he had been to jail for previously, but he should never have been out on parole," Mrs Hewitt said.
Hadlow was among the townsfolk who spent four days searching for the young girl before she was found near Miscamble St on Saturday, May 26, 1990.
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Hadlow was arrested and found guilty of murder while on parole
He was charged with her murder, forcibly detaining a child under 14, and indecently and unlawfully dealing with a child under 12 years of age.
Hadlow pleaded not guilty to Stacey-Ann's murder, but the jury disagreed.
He was sentenced to life in prison and his file was marked never to be released. He died on 13 July 2007 at the age of 65, in a Brisbane Hospital in Qld.
Barry Gordon Hadlow was on parole when he killed nine-year-old Stacey-Ann Tracy.
In 1963, Barry Hadlow abducted and murdered a gap-toothed, freckle-faced five-year-old girl, wrapped her body in a corn sack and left her to rot in the boot of a car in Townsville.
Twenty-seven years later and some 1,000 kilometres away in Roma, the same man abducted, raped and murdered a sandy-haired blue-eyed nine-year-old girl, wrapped her body in a garbage bag and dumped her by a creek. Their names were Sandra Dorothy Bacon and Stacy-Ann Tracy.
Hadlow died in jail in 2007, aged 65. He had been behind bars for 43 years. Based on the average annual cost of Maximum Security Incarceration in 2020, Hadlow's jail incarceration cost the Qld. taxpayer $7.525 million circa ($175,000 p.a. X 43 years).