Linda Agostini
| Linda Agostini | |
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Linda Agostini
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| Born |
Florence Linda Platt 12 September 1905 Forest Hill, London, England |
| Died | 27 August 1934 (aged 28) Carlton, Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupation | Hairdresser |
Florence Linda Agostini (née Platt; 12 September 1905 – 27 August 1934), known posthumously as the "Pyjama Girl", was an English Australian homicide victim found on a stretch of road in Albury, New South Wales, Australia, in September 1934.
Linda Agostini was born Florence Linda Platt in Forest Hill, a suburb of South East London, on 12 September 1905. As a teenager, Platt worked at a confectionery store in Surrey before travelling to New Zealand at the age of 19 after what was rumoured to be a broken romance. Platt remained in New Zealand until 1927 when she moved to Australia to live in Sydney. There she worked at a picture theatre in the city and lived in a boarding house on Darlinghurst Road in Kings Cross where accounts tell she entertained young, attractive men. Platt was a heavy drinker and a Jazz Age party-goer who had difficulty adjusting to stability. Her marriage to Italian-born Antonio Agostini (1903-1969) in a Sydney registry office during 1930 was the beginning of an unhappy marriage that would see the couple leave for Melbourne to remove Linda from the influence of her Sydney friends.
Agostini disappeared from friends and family in late August 1934, around a week before the unidentified Pyjama Girl was found in Splitter's Creek, near Albury, on the New South Wales side of the border with Victoria.
The victim's body was discovered by a local man named Tom Griffith. Griffith had been leading a prize bull along the side of Howlong Road near Albury when he saw the body in a culvert running under the road and noticed a strong smell of kerosene. Slightly concealed and badly burnt, the body would not have been visible to anybody driving by.
The victim's head was wrapped in a towel. She had been shot and badly beaten. In a detail that came to define the case, she was wearing yellow silk pyjamas with a Chinese dragon motif – in Depression-era Australia, such clothing was luxurious, youthful and bohemian.
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