Murder of Anne Maree Kropp & Christopher Leigh Nancarrow
By Calvin Gnech, Criminal Lawyer and Legal Practice Director at Gnech and Associates
04 February 2022
This week marks 23 years since the bodies of Anne Maree Kropp & Christopher Leigh Nancarrow were discovered at their residence at 2293 Springbrook Road, Springbrook.
Both had sadly suffered knife wounds and are believed to have been murdered sometime between the evening of Saturday 30 January 1999 and Sunday 31 January 1999. The couple were last seen alive when they left a friend’ s residence at Oxenford at about 7.00pm on Saturday 30 January 1999. They had moved to the Gold Coast area from Maitland, New South Wales approximately 12 months prior to their deaths.
Over a decade later two men were charged with murder however in September 2011 both men were acquitted by a jury after three hours of deliberations .
The case remains unsolved. A $250 000 reward remains on offer from the Queensland Government for information which leads to the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murders.
Changes to Queensland’s double-jeopardy laws in 2007 mean people acquitted of murder can be retried if “fresh and compelling” evidence emerges.
