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A judge called Anita Cobby’s 1986 rape and murder “a calculated killing done in cold blood.”

For the 26-year-old Australian nurse, the barbaric beating and gang rape on the night of Feb. 2, 1986, that left her dead in a rural field with her throat slashed was the stuff of nightmares.

Just before 10 p.m. that night, Cobby, who worked as a nurse at Sydney Hospital, got off the train in the quiet suburb of Blacktown and started walking home, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

As the former beauty queen walked along the side of the dark road to her parents’ house, the unthinkable happened.

Five men in a car pulled up and forced her inside a stolen vehicle, according to reports in outlets including the Sydney Morning Herald, News.Com.au, and The Guardian.

For the next few hours, they raped her and beat her inside the car before dragging her body through a field and a barbed wire fence, and sexually assaulting her again.
Fearing she would be able to identify them, one of her attackers, John Travers, then 19, slashed her throat, leaving her to die, police said, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Soon after, police tracked down Travers and the other four men: Michael Murdoch, also 19, and three brothers, Leslie Murphy, 22, Gary Murphy, 28, and Michael Murphy, 33.

Convicted in 1987 of killing her, they were sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Her brutal death left the nation in shock and disbelief and still haunts her loved ones today.

Here’s what to know about Anita Cobby’s murder.

Who Was Anita Cobby?
As a teenager, Cobby took part in many beauty pageants, winning the Miss Western Suburbs pageant in 1979, News.com.au reported

She considered a career as a model but opted instead to become a registered nurse, like her mother, according to the Gold Coast Bulletin.