The Disappearance of Sarah MacDiarmid

Kananook railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, about 50 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD. 

At approximately 10:20pm, on the 11th of July, 1990, a 23-year-old woman named Sarah MacDiarmid can be seen alighting from the train and walking in the direction of the poorly lit car park, where she parked her red Honda Civic that morning. 

She is no doubt in a hurry to get home. She has work in the morning, and her train had been running 20 minutes late. 

Despite it being late on a Wednesday night, there are people around. They see the woman, with blonde hair, holding a tennis racket. 

She crosses the footbridge. Someone will later remember a female voice shouting “Give me back my keys”. We won’t know if that voice belongs to Sarah. 

Between the footbridge and sliding into the driver’s seat of her car, Sarah vanishes into thin air. There are traces that she made it to her vehicle, but someone, or perhaps a group of people, targeted her. But who? And why? 

Will we ever know for certain what happened to Sarah MacDiarmid on that night, in the middle of winter, three decades ago?

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Host: Jessie Stephens

Guest: Vikki Petraitis

Executive Producer: Gia Moylan

Audio Producers: Leah Porges & Gia Moylan

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