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1873 – It took up to two months for the body of 25-year-old William Baxter to be found in the New South Wales bush. Drover Thomas Sheppard told the coroner’s inquest into Baxter’s death that he was four miles from Combanning, at about 5.30 in the morning,  when he saw the remains of a manContinue reading “Murdered man not found for two months”