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Airdate: CIA: Buried Alive

Crime Investigation Australia investigates the 1982 murder of 13-year-old Brisbane boy Peter Aston.

CIA_SteveLeibman2The next episode of Crime Investigation Australia investigates the 1982  murder of 13-year-old Brisbane boy Peter Aston.

On the night of May 4, 1982, 13-year old Terry Ryan rushed in to his family home in the Brisbane suburb of Marsden and told his mother, Belita Ryan, an astonishing story.

Terry said that he had been forced by two men to participate in the sexual assault and prolonged torture and murder of his best friend, 13-year-old Peter Aston. He said he had buried Aston in a shallow grave in scrubland about 60 kilometres south, over the New South Wales border, near the seaside hamlet of Kingscliff.

Belita Ryan immediately rang the police and Terry went on to retell his story to detectives at the Queensland Criminal Investigation Branch. At approximately 4.45am on the morning of May 5, the detectives drove Terry and his mother over the border in to New South Wales.

Terry led his mother and the detectives along the sandy track into the scrub. After about 200 metres, the track opened on to a roughly cleared area and the tyre tracks disappeared in to bushland on the other side of it.

“There…in there,” Terry Ryan said as he pointed in to the foliage.

“It’s in there.”

The detectives led the way and, as they entered the track, they came across a grave-sized mound of earth off to the north-east. It was covered with small tree branches and twigs obviously broken from nearby trees.

Terry stepped back into his mother’s arms and began to cry as the police officers approached the ominous mound and examined the freshly turned earth. In the dawn light, they saw spots of blood in the sand and a large, wet, blood-soaked section in the centre of the raised soil. Lying in the sand at the head of the bush grave was a dark sock and a knife in a sheaf.

What the police officers found beneath the mound almost defied their comprehension.

Hosted by Steve Liebmann, it features re-enactments and interviews with Aston’s best friend Terry Ryan, his brother Shane Ryan, crime writer Paul B. Kidd, plus the team of detectives that brought Paul Luckman and Robin Reid to justice.

It will air CI Network on Thursday, October 29 at 7.30pm AEDT.

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