True Crimes Of Australia: The Lost Girls Case, The Murders of Karlie and Khandalyce Pearce-Stevenson
Channel: Cheyenne. R. Alchin
Date: 2021-02-20

Hey guys in today's video, I am doing another instalment in my series, True Crimes Of Australia.  In today's video, I am covering the heartbreaking case of Karlie Jade Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce Kiara Pearce, the mother and daughter who were brutally slaughtered in 2008, at the time Karlie was 20 and Khandalyce was 2.  The man responsible, Daniel James Holdem was sentenced to 2 life sentences for the brutal murders.  In this video, I will also talk about behind the scenes forensic work that helped get this case solved.  I also talk about certain people who worked the case as they truly never gave up and it paid off, I also mention a family friend who helped police in identifying the remains of "The Girl In The Suitcase" as Khandalyce Kiara Pearce.

This case starts off when in August of 2010, skeletal remains were found in the Belanglo State Forest by trail bike riders, the remains were dubbed as "Angel" because of a shirt found on the scene.  For a long time, everyone felt certain that they had found an 8th victim to fall to Ivan Milat, however he was ruled out as a suspect when they realised that the murder took place when he was already in prison.

Fast forward to 2015, when three men pulled over on the Karoonda Highway just past Wynarka to answer nature's call and found a tattered suitcase.  However that discovery proved to be horrific as among the clothes soiled by the Murray Mallee dirt, they found a jaw bone small enough to be a child's.  They had stumbled across the skeletal remains of a child, discarded in one of the most disgusting ways possible, as if they had been thrown out like nothing more than rubbish.

The remains of "Angel" would be unidentified for another five years after first being discovered.  The remains of Khandalyce were widely known as "The Girl In The Suitcase" until a couple of months later.  No one would believe that these two sets of unidentified remains could've been mother and daughter, as they were found so far away from each other and five years apart.  The seemingly impossible was confirmed as true through amazing forensic work and how much technology has improved in the last 20 years or so allowing DNA to solve so many cases.

Sadly Karlie's mum, Colleen, passed away in 2012, not ever knowing what had happened to her daughter and her granddaughter.

The book I used to research this case is "The Lost Girls" by Ava Benny-Morrison, the books goes way more into the case than what I did in this video and I highly recommend reading it.  If you would like to read this book the link is below.
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-lost-girls-ava-benny-morrison/book/9780733335952.html

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