MURDER ISLAND -BEAKON ISLAND NEAR AUSTRALIA 125 CORPSES UNEARTHED
MURDER ISLAND -BEAKON ISLAND NEAR AUSTRALIA 125 CORPSES UNEARTHED At last, the true story of Murder Island: Bodies of hundreds of men, women and children who were massacred by mutineers are still being found 400 YEARS after their ship crashed into an uninhabited island Scientists are still recovering the 125 bodies of those murdered by a brutal gang of rebels hell bent on becoming pirates after their ship crashed into an uninhabited island 400 years ago. Beacon Island, later named Batavia's Graveyard and nicknamed Murder Island for the atrocity that would occur, was the site of Australia's first and biggest massacre. Centuries after the shipwreck of the Dutch sailing ship on a tiny Western Australian island, the story of what happened to those who swam ashore remains largely untold. On October 28, 1628, the Dutch East India Company gave the green light for a ship to set said from Texel in the Netherlands to Batavia, which we now know as J...