Women tied to a tree for days: Qld inquest

Three Queensland men linked to an unsolved double murder of two Sydney nurses are to face court. Source: AAP

A SUSPECT in the 1970s murders of two Sydney nurses once let slip incriminating details about their last moments, including that they were tied to a tree for up to three days before being killed, a Queensland court has heard.

Donald "Donnie" Laurie, who died in 1994, told his one-time housemate that Lorraine Wilson and Wendy Evans had been tied to a tree for two or three days and that he had wanted to give them water, the Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard on Wednesday.

Former housemate Betty Staib was giving evidence at the second inquest into their murders via phone link.

She said the conversation happened in the late 1970s, after the pair watched a television crime show about the unsolved killings.

"I was like, 'How do you know these things Donnie?'," Ms Staib told the inquest.

"He straight away looked at me like he'd said too much and said, 'I get to hear things'."

Ms Staib said she later tried to talk with Laurie about the murders, but felt "he was on to me" and stopped.

"I believe he was there.

"What he was telling me you couldn't know without being there," she said.

Ms Staib reported the conversation to police and Laurie was questioned, but never charged.

He is one of several "persons of interest" in the case, along with his dead nephew Allan John "Shorty" Laurie and dead former friend Wayne "Boogie" Hilton.

Surviving suspects Terrence O'Neill and Allan Neil Laurie are due to give evidence later on Wednesday, along with another associate, Desmond Hilton.

Ms Wilson, 20, and Ms Evans, 18, disappeared while hitchhiking in Queensland in October 1974.

Their skeletal remains were found two years later in bushland, at Murphys Creek, at the foot of the Toowoomba Range.

The inquest continues.

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