The Arane Mystery
In March 1947, Lithuanian Jew, nineteen-year-old Judith Arane arrived in Sydney. Already residing in Australia was her brother, John born in Kaunas 28 December 1920 arrived in Australia in 1938 and was naturalised 12 July 1945. Tragically Judy died on 22 February 1954 after the car she was in plunged into the surf from a cliff top at Tamarama, Sydney with Dr Joseph Blank. Dr. Blank's body was recovered from the surf at North Bondi but no trace was been found of Judy. Detectives think her body may have been pinned in the doctor's wrecked car, which was jammed in a crevice between two huge rocks at Tamarama beach. At low tide divers dared a boiling surf to attach a rope line to the wreckage. But when a truck tried to pull it clear of the crevice, the line snapped. The tide then was rising, and further attempts to salvage the car had to be postponed until later that day. Police favoured the theory that the car in went over the cliffs by accident. Mainly because the ...