Nine days after she disappeared, Mandy Lee Yodgee’s body was found in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges.
It was May 8, 1984. Some 42 years later, Mandy’s killer remains uncharged and her family’s fight for justice continues.
There’s really only been one credible suspect in Mandy’s murder – Peter Anthony Wall. He is now 75 and continues to claim he knows nothing about what happened on Mandy’s last night.
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He was with Mandy at the South Yarra Arms Hotel on April 29, 1984.
He says they went from that venue to another before ordering a takeaway pizza and going back to his apartment in Prahran. He says Mandy left the apartment at 1.30am.
Wall says Mandy did not attend a planned meet-up the following day.
Mandy was reported missing on May 2 and two people say they saw her that day and the next. She was found deceased in Sassafras on May 8.
The medical examiner could not say how she died but her death is being treated as a homicide.
When media confronted Wall earlier this year, he told the journalist: “I can honestly swear on my mother’s life, my own life on it, my daughter’s life on it. No, I did not, no.”
Mandy’s family are calling on Victoria Police to offer a $1 million reward for information leading to the prosecution of her killer.
“She was a very loving, caring, bubbly young lady,” Mandy’s cousin Joseph told the ABC recently.
“She was cheeky like the majority of us Yodgees.
“She had a really bright future ahead of her.”
A Victoria Police spokesperson said a number of people remain of interest in Mandy’s case and that the investigation continues.
“Someone out there knows something about Mandy,” Joseph said.
“Give yourself in – do the right thing, come forward.
“This 17-year-old deserves justice and so does the family.”
Contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 if you know anything.
