"Complete Strangers Can Get through Your Front Door": The Carly Ryan Murder, Teen Girls and the Internet in 2000s Australia.
On 21 February 2007, 15-year-old Carly Ryan's body was found in the waters at Port Elliot in South Australia. A highly public investigation and trial followed, during which it was revealed that 48-year-old Melburnian man Garry Francis Newman had used a false online identity to seduce and lure Ryan t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Australian Studies Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 466 - 482 |
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