First Look Promo: A Model Daughter – The Killing of Caroline Byrne…
Below are details about the Network Ten tele-movie The Killing of Caroline Byrne with video below…
In the early hours of June 8th, 1995, model Caroline Byrne’s body is recovered from the rocky shore below the sheer cliffs of the notorious Gap, Sydney’s preferred suicide location.
Did she jump or was she pushed?Caroline’s boyfriend Gordon Wood, chauffeur and personal assistant to investment guru and stockbroker Rene Rivkin, claims she took her own life. He maintains she was suffering depression because of her job, and that she was haunted by her mother’s suicide years before.
Caroline’s father Tony Byrne doesn’t buy suicide for a second. Yes, his wife died by her own hand but Caroline has always been a well-adjusted person. He totally rejects Gordon’s claim she was unhappy with her job – hadn’t she told him how excited she was about her career only 48 hours before?
While Gordon spins Caroline’s “suicide” every which way he can, Tony badgers the police to investigate what he believes is a homicide. He is convinced that Caroline had a falling out with Gordon over the nature of his relationship with his flamboyant boss, and that big strong Gordy threw her off The Gap in a rage – how else could her body have landed so far from the base of the cliff?
It takes the police an age to a) accept the possibility of murder; and b) allocate sufficient resources to mount an effective investigation. And even then, since no-one bothered to call the Homicide Squad the night Caroline died, there is a distinct lack of evidence to work with.
If not for the persistence of several journalists the investigation would die on the vine again and again.
But the real hero is Tony Byrne. A quiet, sensitive soul with little appetite for a fight, he bravely wages a battle for justice. Yes, he wants to see Gordon Wood put on trial for murder, but more importantly he is determined to remove the stigma of suicide from his daughter’s death.
In April 2006, Gordon Wood is finally charged with Caroline’s murder. In 2008 – 13 years after the event – he is finally convicted and sent to prison.
Filed Under: Network Ten
this looks fantastic, TEN do Australian stories so well.,,
Do not think Gordon Wood did the murder. Do not trust the Police who did the inquiry or her Father either.
The ex boyfriend a Police Officer is surely in involved in the matter and that is why the Police did not investigate it properly. Hope the matter is re opened and those involved in lying including her father are gaoled. Caroline seems a very rough type of person and really not spending the time investigating her murder.