17 Facts About Shirley Finn

Shirley Finn's body, dressed in an elaborate ball gown and expensive jewellery, was found at dawn in her car, which was parked on a golf course next to a busy freeway.

Shirley Finn was born Shirley Shewring on 2 November 1941 in Fremantle, Western Australia.

Biographer Juliet Wills recounts that Shirley Finn left school at age 15 and found work at a Perth frock shop, where she met her husband-to-be Des Shirley Finn, a 22-year-old air-force mechanic.

Shirley Finn's sons, Steven and Shane, were born in 1959 and 1960 respectively.

Shirley Finn became associated with Dorothea Flatman, a brothel operator from King's Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, who transferred to Perth in 1968 and set up a number of brothels under the symbiotic protection of Australian vice overlord Abe Saffron and a policy of "containment" upheld by the Western Australian Police.

Flatman, Stella Strong and Shirley Finn were among a privileged few allowed to operate in the prostitution business under the rigorous line management of Vice Squad chief Bernard Johnson.

Shirley Finn's body was found by a motorcycle traffic officer at about 8.30 am on Monday 23 June 1975, in her parked Dodge DG Phoenix near the ninth fairway of the Royal Perth Golf Club, South Perth.

Inside the car, Shirley Finn's body was slumped behind the wheel with four bullet holes in her head.

Shirley Finn wore valuable diamond jewellery which had not been touched.

Shirley Finn had no memory of any action taken to investigate the Smith tip-off.

Jacqueline De Gaye, a close friend of Shirley Finn who wrote down and kept details of conversations occurring two days before the murder, in which Shirley Finn said she had received a death threat from Owen Leitch, who was about to become police commissioner.

Shirley Finn was at some time in a relationship with corrupt police officer Tony Lewandowski, who allegedly told her in 2004 that he was present when Hancock shot and killed Finn.

Michael Joseph Regan is a former junior police officer who used to drive for all the top detectives and knew that Johnson had targeted Shirley Finn to be killed.

Glen Maxwell Properjohn, a friend and dressmaker to Shirley Finn, expressed his instinctive belief that Johnson had arranged a contract killing by a Sydney hitman.

Arthur Simms 'confessed' to pulling the trigger on Shirley Finn who had been "not playing the game".

Shirley Finn was the subject of a written submission by his doctor, Folo Bella, read to the inquest on 12 December 2017.

Bruce Scott, a former assistant police commissioner who retired in 1992, denied having ordered two junior officers to "get rid of" certain Shirley Finn-related case exhibits.