Australia: Sydney's Bogle-Chandler whodunnit

1963 The Bogle-Chandler case: One of Australia's most famous mysteries, involving murder, sex and swingers and international espionage.

The semi-dressed bodies of CSIRO scientist, former Rhodes Scholar Dr Gilbert Bogle and Margaret Chandler were discovered by youths searching for golf balls, in bush at Lane Cove National Park on the banks of the Lane Cover River, Sydney, Australia. Bogle was involved in sexual relationships with people other than his wife, having as many as five affairs at any one time. Margaret Chandler was also married, to Mr Geoffrey Chandler who also worked at the CSIRO and who at a recent Christmas party had sanctioned his wife's desire to have an affair with Dr Bogle.

Both had last been seen alive at a New Year’s Eve party in the home of Ken Nash (who also worked at the CSIRO) in Waratah Street, Chatswood. Chandler left the party and drove to another party in the suburb of Balmain where he met Pam Logan, with whom he was having an affair ...

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