Aftermath
Cobby's parents were the founders of the Victims of Homicide Support Group, a community support group that helps families deal with heinous crimes. They also campaigned in seeking tougher sentencing and truth in sentencing laws which eventuated after Anita Cobby's murder. Cobby's father Garry Lynch died on 14 September 2008, aged 90, suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
A September 2006 episode of Australian television series Crime Investigation Australia featured the Anita Cobby murder.
A July 2010 episode of Australian Families of Crime, titled Blood Brothers: The Anita Cobby Killers, featured the Anita Cobby murder.
A park in Sullivan Street, Blacktown was named Anita Cobby Reserve in memory of Cobby.
The Australian social-realist film The Boys (1998), directed by Rowan Woods, is in part inspired by the Anita Cobby murder. It follows the journey of three brothers leading up to the crime.
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