Video emerges of murdered comedian’s final gig just hours before tragedy

VIDEO footage has emerged of slain comedian Eurydice Dixon performing her final comedy gig at a Melbourne bar just hours before she was murdered.

VIDEO footage has emerged of slain comedian Eurydice Dixon performing her final comedy gig at a Melbourne bar just hours before she was raped and murdered on her way home.

The footage was posted on Twitter by Ms Dixon’s friend Paula Ferrari, who recorded the show at the city’s Highlander Bar, on June 12.

“Beautiful, clever, funny Eurydice Dixon at her gig at Highlander last Tuesday. RIP,” Ms Ferrari posted with the video.

Ms Dixon, 22, was a regular act at the venue where she had that night debuted her latest material.

The clip shows the up-and-coming comic on stage performing a set in which she joked about gender equality and feminism. In a place where people had come for good times and laughs, the notion that Ms Dixon’s life would come to a horrific end on her way home, was unthinkable in that moment.

“I have a bit of a tendency to worry a lot — about things I shouldn’t worry about,’ Ms Dixon said as she opened her routine.

“Sometimes I worry, am I going to wake up in a slave society? You know, just girly things! Just normal s**t, right?”

She joked about robots overtaking the world in the future and pointed out that it would at least achieve gender equality.

“I’m trying to be more optimistic, so I’m like: ‘A slave society … that means no one has any rights — we’ll finally have gender equality’. Equally s**t — still equal,” she said, drawing laughs from the audience.

Her final words to the crowd were, “All right that’s all I want to try, thanks!”

Beautiful, clever, funny Eurydice Dixon at her gig at Highlander last Tuesday. RIP. #eurydicedixon pic.twitter.com/ivcbL2DmSs

— Paula Ferrari (@paulaferrari_oz) June 14, 2018

Ms Dixon was reportedly in high spirits following the successful performance and marked the occasion with a friend Tony Magnuson over a knock off drink before heading home.

“She was happy and content. She gave me a hug, blew me a kiss and said she was going for a walk,” Mr Magnuson told Fairfax Media of his final moments with Ms Dixon before they parted ways at Flinders Street Station.

“She was on top of the world because her gig went so well.”

Eurydice Dixon performed a comedy gig at the Highlander before she was murdered on her way home.

Eurydice Dixon was killed just a few hours after debuting new comedy material at Melbourne’s Highlander bar.

Her body was found on a Carlton North soccer field. Picture: Supplied

Nearing her house in North Carlton, as she walked through a park, Ms Dixon pulled out her phone and messaged Mr Magnuson.

“I’m almost home safe, HBU [how about you],” she wrote to him on Facebook just after midnight. But Ms Dixon never made it.

A few hours later, at 3am on Wednesday, her body was found just 900 metres from her home by a passer-by in Princes Park at North Carlton. She had been raped and murdered.

Jaymes Todd, 19, of Broadmeadows, has been charged with Ms Dixon’s rape and murder and will reappear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court in October.

Meanwhile, Melbourne’s comic community has rallied together to pay tribute to Ms Dixon, with comedian Chris Franklin posting on social media that a memorial will be held at the Highlander Bar, where she performed the night she was killed.

More than 1000 people, including a number of comedians, have also raised over $46,000 in one day on crowd-funding platform GoFundMe for Ms Dixon’s family.

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