How dark humour and community spirit is helping Leongatha get on with business

And Leongatha has long been a safe town. Dunn speaks for most when he notes it’s “a great place to raise kids”.

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Local folklore and official Victoria Police records concur that the last homicide investigation probably dates back to the 1930s and the infamous case of the schoolgirl strangler and serial killer Arnold Sodeman, who killed two of his four victims in the region.

It took nearly a century for the spotlight to turn back to Leongatha, when, just over a month ago, resident…