Crime scenes

Back in 2014 the Museum of Sydney (corner Bridge Street and Phillip Street) held a 'Suburban Noir' exhibition.
It featured crime scene photos from the period 1954 to 1964, as found in the NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive.
The haunting image shown above, taken on 10 March 1964, is of a crime scene at an Esso service station at Carramar on the Hume Highway in Sydney’s southwest.
A story in the Sydney Morning Herald the next day reports that two men, aged 19 and 20, murdered the co-owner of the service station and then fled the scene. The victim was found inside the garage by a motorcyclist at 11.20pm.
The police searched the Georges River at nearby Milperra for the weapon.
The exhibition's curator, Peter Doyle, himself a crime writer, says he was fascinated by what he calls the dynamism of this image. As AMC is also.
“Those EHs (ED: well, the cop car is actually an EJ...), looking like they screamed up there moments before, headlights still on, the separate pools of flouro light; it’s very much the spirit of the age, the Hume, fast cars, night-time, all-night garages.”
Note that at this time Esso petrol was boosted with Vitane which, according to the slogan, “puts a tiger in your tank.”
Happy motoring, indeed!