We were working like mad to barricade ourselves in, [and] we were pretty seriously worried about how it might play out, that it could actually be very dangerous.". In a shock move, the radical NSW branch of the BLF headed by Jack Mundey was taken over by federal officials, whose first action was to lift the green ban on Victoria Street. He asked her for help in research he was doing on SIDS, and she agreed. "It was the liveliest part of Sydney by any stretch of the imagination," former resident and artist Ian Milliss told the Unravel: Juanita podcast. As they passed through the police line, officers stood by and watched as they smashed their way in with sledgehammers and axes, and then set about destroying the fittings, plumbing and wiring inside. The Green Bans were about everyday people involving themselves directly in the planning of cities: about who should decide what comes down and what goes up. "There were always people at every hour of the day and night. They had no natural cause for death. The nightlife is mostly gone, and the Cross has rapidly transformed into an upmarket residential neighbourhood to rival what is known as the "Paris end" of Potts Point just a few blocks away. "And for that, she got murdered. The flats at number 111 were impenetrable, so Theeman's men spent hours knocking a hole through the roof and then through the first floor to reach the squatters in the bottom room. Can the dogs of Chernobyl teach us new tricks when it comes to survival? We've only learnt this year who may have been responsible for Arthur's abduction. WickedWe is reader supported, some products displayed may earn us a commission if you purchase through our links. Even in 1974, Juanita Nielsen said she felt as though she was living among the ghosts of Kings Cross's past. On September 11, 1995, she was sentenced to 75 years to life, 15 years for each murder, to be served consecutively. "[Someone] saw all the police build up around Darlinghurst Police Station getting ready to come and get us," Milliss said. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome was blamed. Shortly thereafter, Fitzpatrick left the prosecutors office, but Nortons comments still gnawed at him. When he chased the intruder out of his apartment he confronted two other men standing in the hallway. James Hoyt, Hoyt's longest surviving biological child, died on September 26, 1968, 28 months after he was born on May 31, 1966. "I suggested that this didn't seem to be a very efficient way of doing it, and perhaps if they had some sticky-tape it might workbetter," Arthur told Juanita Nielsen's coronial inquest in 1983. Arthur King still seems agitated when talking about the time he disappeared for two days. The only reasonable cause is homicidal suffocation., In fact, as one Hoyt baby after another died, some health-care professionals did grow suspicious at the time. Subscribe to our mailing list and get interesting stuff and updates to your email inbox. One of three penthouses in the 19-storey building sold as an empty shell in 2019 for $14.25 million, putting it among the highest per-square-metre price results in Sydney outside the CBD. After about an hour, Mulvey gently clasped Hoyts hand and told her they didnt believe her. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), abc.net.au/news/juanita-nielsen-murder-came-after-arthur-king-kidnapping/100332232, Supplied: Tribune Collection, State Library of New South Walesand Courtesy SEARCH Foundation. 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"When I came back, a lot of the magic was still there, but it wasn't quite the same. News cameras broadcast the ensuing scenes to the rest of the country of police grabbing at protestors, dragging them along the ground and throwing them into the back of police cars. Juanita Nielsen's home at 202 Victoria Street is now a heritage-listed building. Both Mickey Rooney and Freddie Bartholomew had starred in the 1936 movie version of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Nevertheless, Hoyt was convicted in April 1995. Hear more of the fresh leads into Juanita Nielsen's disappearancein the ABC's new true-crime podcast,Unravel: Juanita. He was hit on the back of the head with a wooden bat, then grabbed and blindfolded fortunate, in a way, as Arthur felt sure if he saw the men's faces they would have killed him. "What Juanita Nelson was doing back in 1975 is what many people in this society do: she was simply objecting to the overdevelopment of her neighbourhood," Arthur told the Unravel: Juanita podcast. The disappearance of Juanita Nielsen in 1975 remains one of Australia's most notorious true crime mysteries. With his hands bound and mouth gagged, Arthur was pushed out onto the street barefoot. Victoria Street was right in the heart of all the neighbourhood had to offer at the time: artists' residences, nightclubs, and illegal gambling dens. Adds Jay, whom the Hoyts adopted when he was 7 weeks old and whose crying apparently didnt bother Hoyt the same way: I love her, and she shouldnt be here. "And so that ruined it, finally. we respect your privacy and take protecting it seriously. However, in 1938 Bartholomew was the lead and received top billing. "What it does is reserves the most favoured areas for the wealthy. He was hassled out of the car, and one of the men held something sharp to his throat. Social housing had its highest point in the early 1990s and has declined "dramatically" to historic lows today, says Alan Morris, a professor in the Institute of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Technology Sydney. Keep up to date with our latest articles, creepy news, info and products and receive promo material for great deals on all your wicked products. Lloyd Charles Marshall was 19 years old when he worked at the Carousel Club in Kings Cross, the last place Juanita Nielsen was seen alive. Waneta Ethel (Nixon) Hoyt (May 13, 1946 August 13, 1998[1]) was an American serial killer who was convicted of killing all five of her biological children. I asked God to forgive me over and over and over, said Hoyt, who had sought counseling after the last death. Some gave up peacefully, others were dragged out. 1965-1971. He was crying all the time, and I wanted to stop him. "But these pressures, which exist all over Sydney and probably all over the world today, are coming to a head in Kings Cross.". Hoyts life history yields few clues to her murderous bent. Whatever you tell this court, your husband, your God, you owe it to that boy to tell him the truth. With that, four deputies escorted Hoyt from the courtroom, and her only surviving child bowed his head and wept. Fifteen minutes later, Waneta Hoyt confessed to having killed all five children. He contacted former members of the residents' action group and told them for the first time about his abduction, as he believed Juanita may have been taken by the same people. We used to tell her, Youre not a bad mother. , On September 11, Tioga County Judge Vincent Sgueglia sentenced Waneta Hoyt, 49, to 75 years-to-life in prison for depraved indifference to human life, in this case a devastatingly apt euphemism for murder. On a few occasions a maid came to the door, and Arthur was shoved into the bathroom behind a closed door. Arthur left that day and never returned to live in Kings Cross. Arthur's front door was locked, so he assumed the man had broken in. "There's very little of the old Cross now. 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What unfolded over the next two days became known as the "Victoria Street Siege" and it marked a turning point for the street. It's not just Kings Cross that lost affordable inner-city housing, either. Waneta Hoyt would seem to agree. Baden concluded that the deaths were the result of murder. Some of Arthur's neighbours entered his apartment and found him missing, the bedroom in disarray and a desk chair thrown on the bed. Now, he's shared it with the ABC's Unravel: Juanita podcast, where Juanita Nielsen's family search for answers into her unsolved disappearance. Building height limits were removed and developers were incentivised to buy large tracts of land the bigger the block, the higher they were allowed to build.