Podcast companion: Sheree Beasley abduction rocked Rosebud

Little Sheree Beasley cut a picture of innocence as she rode her pink bike along a Rosebud street on June 29, 1991. Until paedophile Robert Arthur Selby Lowe pounced in what a judge described as “every child’s fear and every parent’s nightmare”. NEW LIFE & CRIMES PODCAST — LISTEN NOW.

Sheree Beasley was abducted while riding her bike in Rosebud when she was just six years old.

Little Sheree Beasley cut a picture of innocence as she rode her pink bike along a Rosebud street on June 29, 1991.

Watching the lone six-year-old was paedophile Robert Arthur Selby Lowe, a salesman and avid church goer who, like a typical rockspider, pounced on the vulnerable girl.

Lowe drove up to Sheree, snatched her off her bike and bundled her into his vehicle.

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Sheree Beasley was abducted from a street in Rosebud in 1991.

Sheree as a happy child.

He sexually assaulted his little victim, whose dead body he dumped in a concrete drain along Mornington-Flinders Rd.

“I would give my life to have her back,” her anguished mother, Kerri Greenhill, said at the time. “Take me instead ... she was only six.”

Sheree’s decomposed body was found nearly four months after her disappearance.

“I was hoping they wouldn’t find her decomposed so we could leave the coffin open and everyone could see her one last time,” Ms Greenhill sobbed.

Lowe was sentenced to life with no chance of parole.

Robert Arthur Selby Lowe in a police interview. Lowe was found guilty of the murder of Sheree Beasley.

Kerri Ludlow, mother of Sheree Beasley.

“Her final resting place was a cold concrete cylindrical drain, 30cm wide,” Supreme Court judge

Justice Philip Cummins said.

“What you did was every child’s fear and every parent’s nightmare ... You wove a tangled web around yourself which eventually captured you.”