Her body may lie dumped in ‘dark lake’, says Bronwyn’s brother
The dark, tannin-stained waters of Lake Ainsworth near Lennox Heads on the NSW far north coast may be the last resting place of missing mother Bronwyn Winfield, according to relatives.
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Bronwyn’s neighbour regrets not talking to cops
Murray Nolan is an all-round good bloke, and a small pocket of misjudgment three decades ago doesn’t in any way blemish that goodness. But it gnaws away at him | Episode 9 out now.
Police speak to ‘mummy’ witness in Bronwyn case
NSW Police have moved swiftly on The Australian’s bombshell revelations about the disappearance of Bronwyn Winfield, with specialist detectives interviewing a new eyewitness and visiting Bronwyn’s last known location | NEW EPISODE
Cop left stunned by police file on missing mother
From the moment Detective Sergeant Glenn Taylor read the paperwork on missing mum Bronwyn Winfield in 1998, he immediately saw red flags. Her inquest years later would be his last in a NSW police uniform.
Podcast Episodes
Episode 9: The Lake
Is Bronwyn’s body in Lake Ainsworth, a mysterious body of water just minutes from the sandy northern beaches of Lennox Head?
Episode 8: Mea Culpa
Bronwyn’s friends and loved ones reel as the revelation of Judy Singh’s sighting is understood.
Episode 7: Did Judy See Bronwyn’s Body?
A new witness emerges with a chilling account of seeing what she fears was Bronwyn Winfield’s body, in a development that could change everything.
Episode 6: Fragile
As celebrities wax lyrical about Lennox Head, locals like Scruffy speculate about Bronwyn and the whereabouts of her remains.
Episode 5: Detectives, Red Flags and Failure
Analysis of police internal running sheets and other files from 1993, when Bronwyn disappeared in Lennox Head, reveals remarkable red flags.
Episode 4: A Strange Getaway
A hasty escape. The unmistakable sound of the Winfield family vehicle. And a doting mother, never seen or heard from again.
Episode 3: The Lawyer’s Advice
When Bronwyn decides to get a locksmith in and take her lawyer’s advice to move back into the house, friends are worried for her.
Episode 2: War of the Winfields
Bronwyn’s friends and family recall her sadness and frustrations over what appears to be coercive control and emotional violence.
Episode 1: Jon’s Castle
Bronwyn Winfield was determined to start again with her two daughters. Then, she disappeared from the idyllic surf town of Lennox Head.
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Her body may lie dumped in ‘dark lake’, says Bronwyn’s brother
The dark, tannin-stained waters of Lake Ainsworth near Lennox Heads on the NSW far north coast may be the last resting place of missing mother Bronwyn Winfield, according to relatives.
Bronwyn’s neighbour regrets not talking to cops
Murray Nolan is an all-round good bloke, and a small pocket of misjudgment three decades ago doesn’t in any way blemish that goodness. But it gnaws away at him | Episode 9 out now.
Police speak to ‘mummy’ witness in Bronwyn case
NSW Police have moved swiftly on The Australian’s bombshell revelations about the disappearance of Bronwyn Winfield, with specialist detectives interviewing a new eyewitness and visiting Bronwyn’s last known location | NEW EPISODE
Cop left stunned by police file on missing mother
From the moment Detective Sergeant Glenn Taylor read the paperwork on missing mum Bronwyn Winfield in 1998, he immediately saw red flags. Her inquest years later would be his last in a NSW police uniform.
Missing mum’s daughter buoys search for Bronwyn
Sally Leydon sees staggering similarities between the disappearance of her mother, Marion Barter, and Lennox Head woman Bronwyn Winfield.
Plea to cops: ‘find out what happened to mum – but don’t let dad know I asked’
Bronwyn Winfield’s eldest daughter was so concerned about her mum’s whereabouts that she desperately reached out to police and asked them not to tell her father she’d been to see them.
Breakthrough lands with emotional hammer blow
Before now, Bronwyn Winfield’s brother and sister-in-law have endured three decades without any answers about the fate of their loved one: ‘This is sickening’.
NSW Police act on new ‘body in a sheet’ account
Police are immediately moving on chilling information from a new witness who saw what she fears was Bronwyn Winfield’s body wrapped in sheets in the back of a car | Listen to Episode 7.
Body in a sheet: chilling new witness account
Retired nurse Judy Singh has come forward on the Bronwyn podcast with an extraordinary story of seeing a figure that ‘resembled a body’ being transported late one night in 1993.
The listener who changed the course of my investigation
When a Ballina woman called Kerry McLean sent me a brief email in January 2023 there were no explanatory notes. Just four words and a date. It led us to a breakthrough.
3D tech and a Ford Falcon: how we brought a witness’ memory to life
Our visual, graphics and reporting team reconstructed a witness account of the night Bronwyn Winfield disappeared using computer generated images, video animation and an actual 1987 Ford sedan – an identical model to the Winfield family car.
Rugby league star certain missing mum was dead
When former premiership-winning footballer Brian Battese heard family friend Bronwyn Winfield was missing, he told his wife ‘you’ll never see your friend again’ | LISTEN
Hairdresser says police tried to ‘put words in my mouth’ over missing mother
A retired hairdresser has told of her angry reaction when a detective repeatedly suggested at her salon that Bronwyn Winfield had ‘run off with a fella’ | LISTEN
That’s absolute bull: Bronwyn’s cousin denies disparaging her
The cousin of Bronwyn Winfield says she was horrified to discover disparaging statements about Bronwyn had been attributed to her in a police report | LISTEN
Bronwyn’s family ‘deranged’, police told by husband
The first police report on Bronwyn Winfield’s disappearance claimed her family was disturbed and she had phoned her stepdaughter to say she wasn’t returning.
Phone blunder derailed police investigations
Police mixed up the timing of a key phone call in the Bronwyn Winfield investigation, knocking it badly off course in a major bungle | NEW EPISODE LIVE NOW
Surveillance for clairvoyant, but not for ex-husband
Police involved in the flawed initial investigation into the disappearance of Bronwyn Winfield put surveillance on a clairvoyant while accepting her estranged husband’s version of events | NEW EPISODE
‘Improbable’ that missing mum left her kids: judge
A retired Family Court judge says it was improbable that missing Lennox Head woman Bronwyn Winfield would have ‘walked out’ from her children | LISTEN
‘It was messy in her house, not its usual OCD neatness’
A neighbour who entered the house of missing mother Bronwyn Winfield the morning after she disappeared was struck by its state, at odds with its usual permanent showroom-level cleanliness | LISTEN
Jittery husband’s behaviour ‘just blew me away’
Missing mother Bronwyn Winfield’s husband surprised her family when he turned up in Sydney with her daughters the day after she vanished – but what he did earlier in the morning really shocked them | LISTEN
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