Crime Investigation Australia (2005)

S2E6 Thrill Kill - The Janine Balding Murder

On a September evening in 1986, two officers ventured through a barbed-wire fence alongside the F4 freeway in Minchinbury, Sydney. Accompanied by two teenage boys, they were led to the edge of a shallow dam, where their flashlights illuminated the body of a young woman submerged in mud. The victim was later identified as 19-year-old Janine Balding, a bank clerk from Sydney. She had been abducted, assaulted, and ultimately drowned. The horror intensified when authorities apprehended the group responsible, discovering that the youngest member was only 14, along with a 15-year-old boy and girl, a 16-year-old boy, and their 21-year-old leader, Stephen “Shorty” Jamieson, who had the mental capacity of a 10-year-old. The gang, in a misguided attempt to showcase their bravado, randomly targeted Janine for their hein