14 Facts About Linda Agostini

1.

Linda Agostini was then brought to trial and convicted of the lesser offense of manslaughter, and was sentenced to 6 years in prison.

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2.

Linda Agostini was paroled after 3 years and 1 month and was deported to Italy.

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3.

Florence Linda Agostini, known posthumously as the "Pyjama Girl", was an English Australian manslaughter victim found on a stretch of road in Albury, New South Wales, Australia, in September 1934.

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4.

Linda Agostini was born Florence Linda Platt in Forest Hill, a suburb of South East London, on 12 September 1905.

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5.

Linda Agostini's marriage to Italian-born Antonio Agostini, in a Sydney registry office during 1930, was the beginning of an unhappy time that would see the couple leave for Melbourne to remove her from the influence of her Sydney friends.

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6.

Linda Agostini had been badly beaten and an x-ray revealed a bullet in her neck.

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7.

Linda Agostini was preserved in a bath of formalin for this purpose at the Sydney University Medical School, until 1942, when her body was transferred to police headquarters where it remained until 1944.

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8.

Tony Linda Agostini had recently returned to Sydney after being held in internment camps at Orange, Hay and Loveday from 1940 to 1944 due to his nationalist sympathies.

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9.

Linda Agostini had poured petrol over the body and set fire to it, to destroy the evidence.

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10.

The circumstances under which Antonio Linda Agostini "confessed" to killing his wife in their Melbourne townhouse are still very dubious today.

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11.

Arrest of Linda Agostini was a sensation, as it meant that the Pyjama Girl had been identified.

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12.

Linda Agostini was charged with murder and was extradited to Melbourne, where he was tried for murder.

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13.

Linda Agostini was acquitted but was found guilty of manslaughter instead, and was sentenced to six years' imprisonment but only served 3 years and 1 month of those 6 years.

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14.

Linda Agostini was released in 1948 and deported to Italy, where he died in 1969.

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