An Unsolved Case of Child Murder

Jaidyn Raymond Leslie (30 April 1996 – 15 June 1997) was the Australian child of Bilynda Williams and Brett Leskie, abducted and killed in 1997. Despite leads, and the arrest and prosecution of the main suspect, Leskie's killing stay unsolved. Although the conclusion was made in 2002 not to hold an inquest into the toddler's death, the case stayed in the news for many more years and an inquest was held in 2006 involving the mother's boyfriend, Greg Domaszewicz, who at the time of the abduction was babysitting the boy at his home at Newborough.

The situations of Leskie's disappearance and casualty were never clear and were complicated by a pig's head being thrown at the house and other destruction on the evening of the toddler's disappearance, an apparent prank about the boy's face and the corpse not being found until January 1998. Leslie is thought to have perished of head injuries. After a missing person's search, believed to have been the hugest since the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt in 1967, Jaidyn's body was discovered on 1 January 1998 at Blue Rock Dam, 18 km north of Moe. His corpse had been conserved by the cold waters of the lake through winter and the clothing he was wearing was subject to a DNA test to solve the crime.

Greg Domaszewicz was accused of murder but was found not guilty in December 1998. A dubious 2006 inquest, which contended Domaszewicz's lawyer claimed to have been media-driven, found that he had participated in the toddler's demise and had likely disposed of the boy's corpse.

The incapability to move forward with what some believe to be a new indication due to the double jeopardy laws in place in Victoria has led Leskie's mother to join a bloc asking for reform of these laws. Almost ten years after Leslie's casualty, a kit on helping parents choose adequate babysitters was released in his memory.