What the records say
- When
- 6 Sep 1971
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 30.00° S, 135.00° E
- Description
- familicide in Hope Forest, Southern Australia, Australia
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Hope Forest shooting
Familicide in Hope Forest, South Australia
The Hope Forest shooting was a familicide in Hope Forest, South Australia, Australia on 6 September 1971, in which Clifford Bartholomew shot dead his wife, their seven children, his wife's sister-in-law and her son with a .22-caliber rifle. It was at the time the deadliest mass shooting on Australian soil, being surpassed by the Port Arthur massacre 25 years later.
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