On a few occasions a maid came to the door, and Arthur was shoved into the bathroom behind a closed door. There had been violence brewing on their street over two things that drive Sydney: money and land. Some of the buildings remain, they get a little bit shabbier every year. But the spirit has almost entirely gone because the people have gone," Juanita said in an interview a year before she disappeared. One protester took a stand on a rooftop and defied police to get him off the chimney. The squatters were in a stand-off with Theeman's thugs, who terrorised them, face to face. Forty-eight days later, confessed Waneta, she killed him. ", To walk Kings Cross today is to experience a very different neighbourhood. When Timothy meets Flossie while running errands, the cars are driving on the right side of the street. He contacted former members of the residents' action group and told them for the first time about his abduction, as he believed Juanita may have been taken by the same people. 1994; 29 years ago. On September 11, Tioga County Judge Vincent Sgueglia sentenced Waneta Hoyt, 49, to 75 years-to-life in prison for "depraved indifference to human life," in this case a devastatingly apt euphemism for murder. It's not just Kings Cross that lost affordable inner-city housing, either. Arthur's front door was locked, so he assumed the man had broken in. In April an Owego, N.Y., jury ruled that Waneta Hoyt had suffocated each of her childrenwith pillows, a towel, even her shoulder. He has broken his silence to tell the ABC Unravel: Juanita podcast he believes Jim Anderson, right-hand man of crime boss Abe Saffron, was behind Arthur's kidnapping. "What it does is reserves the most favoured areas for the wealthy. Hear more of the fresh leads into Juanita Nielsen's disappearancein the ABC's new true-crime podcast,Unravel: Juanita. The squatters set up their own patrols, which would pass Theeman's crew in the streets at night. Shortly thereafter, Fitzpatrick left the prosecutors office, but Nortons comments still gnawed at him. Some of Arthur's neighbours entered his apartment and found him missing, the bedroom in disarray and a desk chair thrown on the bed. During World War II, an American boy named Timothy Dennis is unwillingly sent to Eton College in the UK where he is frequently confused by the many differences between the two cultures. When he got back to his flat, Arthur quickly packed his things and left to stay with a friend in a suburb away from the Cross. Even in 1974, Juanita Nielsen said she felt as though she was living among the ghosts of Kings Cross's past. During World War II, an American boy named Timothy Dennis is unwillingly sent to Eton College in the UK where he is frequently confused by the many differences between the two cultures. "But these pressures, which exist all over Sydney and probably all over the world today, are coming to a head in Kings Cross.". Baden concluded that the deaths were the result of murder. "There's too much money around," Victoria Street resident, Juanita Nielsen, said at the time. He lay there for several days as the two men talked on the phone, watched TV and listened to the radio. I used a bath towel to smother him. You could get a meal 24 hours a day, it was full of coffee shops, places where people would meet. "It's not much good winning a 35-hour week if we're going to choke to death in planless and polluted cities, where rents are too high, where ordinary people can't live," said NSW BLF secretary Jack Mundey at the time. "In one day we were all hauled out and arrested. Fifteen minutes later, Waneta Hoyt confessed to having killed all five children. Shed say, I dont know what I did wrong, recalls former neighbor Georgia Garray. And on Victoria Street, the BLF unveiled a powerful tactic: a "Green Ban" on development. What had started as one occupied building soon grew to 10. 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And it's a period that still leaves its mark on Sydney all these decades later. "What Juanita Nelson was doing back in 1975 is what many people in this society do: she was simply objecting to the overdevelopment of her neighbourhood," Arthur told the Unravel: Juanita podcast. What unfolded over the next two days became known as the "Victoria Street Siege" and it marked a turning point for the street. As they passed through the police line, officers stood by and watched as they smashed their way in with sledgehammers and axes, and then set about destroying the fittings, plumbing and wiring inside. "I suggested that this didn't seem to be a very efficient way of doing it, and perhaps if they had some sticky-tape it might workbetter," Arthur told Juanita Nielsen's coronial inquest in 1983. I cradled her up to my shoulder. The disappearance of Juanita Nielsen in 1975 remains one of Australia's most notorious true crime mysteries. If you know anything about Juanita Nielsen's disappearance, get in touch at unraveltruecrime@abc.net.au. I kept my eyes totally closed the whole time and they put the band-aids over my eyes and then put the sunglasses on.". In February of that year Frank Theeman is said to have invited Juanita out to lunch. They would have had families, jobs. And from that point on they just went in, and wrecked everything," Milliss says. Arthur left that day and never returned to live in Kings Cross. Because the Hoyts lived outside his jurisdiction, Fitzpatrick turned the case over to Tioga County DA Simpson. For more than 20 years, it was believed that the babies had died of sudden infant death syndrome. The squatters set about barricading the houses with timber and corrugated iron from the partially demolished and burnt-out buildings. "It was still the residual bohemian place that it had been from the 30s and 40s onwards, and it had an extraordinary social mix. That summer, a protester was found guilty of trespassing in the houses Theeman owned: some squatters left, but 40 or so stayed. But by the 1970s, the Cross was swept up in big changes taking over Sydney. What happened to Arthur in those few days is a story he chose not to tell anyone for a long time. In March 1994, New York State trooper Bobby Bleck, a family friend of the Hoyts, approached Waneta at a local post office and asked for her help with research he was doing on SIDS. I didnt want them to die, their mother told police. "I chose not to tell my story to the police because I thought they were certainly at least partly responsible for my abduction," he told the Unravel: Juanita podcast. The nightlife is mostly gone, and the Cross has rapidly transformed into an upmarket residential neighbourhood to rival what is known as the "Paris end" of Potts Point just a few blocks away. "For Australia at that time, [it] was about as exotic as it got.". I asked God to forgive me over and over and over, said Hoyt, who had sought counseling after the last death. Ironically, the historic terraces she fought to save have made the street one of the most coveted addresses in Potts Point today, according to Domain. The only reasonable cause is homicidal suffocation., In fact, as one Hoyt baby after another died, some health-care professionals did grow suspicious at the time. For more than 25 years, Waneta Hoyt would drive each Memorial Day to the small cemetery beside her childhood home in Richford, N.Y., to lay flowers on the graves of her babies. Several years after the death of their last child, the Hoyts adopted a child, Jay, who remained healthy through childhood and was 17 when his adopted mother was arrested in 1994. Arthur King had lived in the Cross for three years before his kidnapping. On September 11, 1995, she was sentenced to 75 years to life, 15 years for each murder, to be served consecutively. 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State (s) New York. "[Someone] saw all the police build up around Darlinghurst Police Station getting ready to come and get us," Milliss said. WickedWe is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. When he chased the intruder out of his apartment he confronted two other men standing in the hallway. For a few nights in August, 1973, Arthur vanished, and his neighbours feared the worst. Support:Cash App $PhyllisFlintAll parties mentioned are innocent until proven guilty. He spent the next decade investigating her case and trying to attract interest from authorities to go beyond what he saw as an indifferent and corrupt police force. He was put face down into the back of a car with the two men sitting beside him. [3] The article was later discredited, and subsequent research failed to replicate the results.[4]. They had no natural cause for death. After the Green Ban was put in place, things on Victoria Street grew more dangerous by the day. Juanita Nielsen never joined the residents group, but she owned a local newspaper, NOW, which fiercely defended the residents and opposed Theeman's plans for her street. "There were always people at every hour of the day and night. Juanita and her newspaper were instrumental in gaining the support of John Glebe, secretary of the water and sewerage employees' union. After being driven around for hours, blindfolded, Arthur and his kidnappers arrived at a motel in the dark. In the motel room, Arthur had his hands and feet bound and was made to sleep on the floor, in a space between the wall and the bed. Juanita Nielsen's home at 202 Victoria Street is now a heritage-listed building. "There's very little of the old Cross now. Basil E. Frankweiler. On July 4, 1975, Juanita Nielsen disappeared, and nobody has seen her since. [10] She was formally exonerated under New York law because she died before her appeal. "And so that ruined it, finally. Everybody knew everybody else, which was remarkable in such a large population," Juanita said in an interview in 1974. THIS IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY!Disclaimer: This is alleged inf. "That's a knife," Arthur recalled the man saying.