Miranda Downes (27 February 1950 – 3 August 1985) was an Australian screenwriter. Ernest Arthur Knibb was convicted of her murder.
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Miranda (known as Mandy) attended Cumberland High School (Carlingford). She was awarded a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales. Subsequently, she completed a course in "script writing" at the National Institute for Dramatic Arts (NIDA).
She worked as a production secretary in the film industry when she wrote an original script, '']Undercover
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'' (1983). She later started working on a script called ''Cane'' about Italian cane cutters in Queensland, when she was murdered on a beach north of Cairns. Ernest Knibb was arrested after an investigation by the TV show ''60 Minutes''.[David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p38-39]
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*''Undercover
To go "undercover" (that is, to go on an undercover operation) is to avoid detection by the object of one's observation, and especially to disguise one's own identity (or use an assumed identity) for the purposes of gaining the trust of an indi ...
'' (1983)
*''First Love'' - "The House That Jack Built"
*'' The Last Resort'' (1988)
*''Fields of Fire''
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Australian women screenwriters
1985 deaths
People murdered in Queensland
1950 births
20th-century Australian screenwriters
20th-century Australian women
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