Former stripper Robyn Lindholm charged with murder of ex-lover George Teazis
FORMER stripper Robyn Lindholm has been charged with the cold-case murder of her ex-lover, George Teazis, who has been missing for more than a decade.
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FORMER stripper Robyn Lindholm has been charged with the cold-case murder of her ex-lover, George Teazis, who has been missing for more than a decade.
Lindholm, whose list of boyfriends included Alphonse Gangitano, was charged at Ravenhall with the murder of Teazis, also known as Templeton, who was a drugs and weapons dealer.
She refused to be interviewed by police this week.
Teazis, who lived with Lindholm with his son in a rented Reservoir house, went missing in May 2005.
He has never been found.
Last year the force’s cold case homicide unit unearthed new information on Teazis’ disappearance, which reinvigorated the probe.
Teazis vanished after leaving his Reservoir home and allegedly texting Lindholm.
Both Lindholm and her new lover at the time, who would later be murdered, were investigated over Teazis’ disappearance, but a lack of evidence impeded the investigation.
Police have also probed whether others were involved in his disappearance and alleged murder of Teazis.
Detectives have been confident that changes in relationships and circumstances over the past decade would result in witnesses coming forward.
Before Teazis vanished, Lindholm was alleged to have complained that he had been beating her, tied her up, and put a gun to her head.
Lindholm also bragged about having dated Gangitano, telling associates she fell pregnant to him.
Gangitano was murdered in 1998. Police believe the triggerman was Jason Moran.
It is understood investigators now have a better understanding of how Teazis met his demise.
Teazis was a one-time member of a Richmond-based gang involved in amphetamines and weapons trading dubbed the “plastic gangsters’’.
As police reinvigorated the investigation into his alleged murder, they also probed for new evidence in the death of an exotic dancer, Shari Davison, to whose 1995 disappearance Teazis was linked.
Davison had been living with another member of Teazis’s gang, and had been featured on the same strippers’ website as Lindholm — who used the name Collette.
A decade later — when Teazis himself vanished — Lindholm made a tearful public plea for information to help find him, while she moved in with gym owner Wayne Amey — who also ended up murdered in 2013.
Mr Amey lived with speculation he had killed and disposed of Teazis, but always denied any knowledge of what happened to him.
Lindholm, 43, is expected to face the Magistrates’ Court on Friday for a filing hearing.