The Kingsgrove Slasher - Rockdale City Council

The first spate of attacks (mid-late 1956) was centred on the Beverly Hills and Kingsgrove areas (thearea today which is largely dominated by the M5 expressway). This cluster of attacks can be seen inthe following diagram which the author has used to show just how localised the attacks were, aswell as how they were undertaken in such a short timeframe. Each attack has been numbered inchronological order, along with the address, victim’s name and the charge that Scanlon was foundguilty of (note: special reference has been made on this map to the site of the tennis club Scanlonplayed at – the significance of this site will be explained further in the "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"section of this report):Figure 1: Clustered 1956 attacks (Beverly Hills & Kingsgrove)After these first eight localised attacks, the Slasher shifted his focus slightly and moved his attackscloser to where he resided at the time, Arncliffe. He perpetrated one attack in Undercliffe, but then,a few weeks later, travelled to the North Shore’s Lavender Bay and attacked a teenager there. Thiswas then followed only a week later by an attack at Turella. These remaining 1956 attacks are shown5