A faceless monster has haunted the mother of Alicia O'Reilly for 41 years
A faceless monster has haunted the mother of Alicia O'Reilly for 41 years
24 November 2021
The six-year-old was found dead - raped and murdered - in her bed in Auckland's Avondale in August 1980.
Her eight-year-old sister was sleeping just metres away.
More than four decades later -- Police have found the killer's DNA sample in an unmarked envelope, at the bottom of a box in police archives.
Alicia's mother Nancye O'Reilly hopes it's the start of the road to some closure.
She says the question that haunts parents the most when their child has been killed, is 'did she know what was happening to her?'
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