Media Coverage
The Sharpe "disappearance", appeals, confession, search, body recovery, and trial were all major news items in the Australian print and television media of the time. The murder also received general media attention in New Zealand, as well as by the New Zealand Police Force.
Sharpe's murders were the focus of the 2005 Crime Investigation Australia Season 1 episode "The Mornington Monster ". in which the crimes and Sharpe's actions were reenacted.
The murders also appear in the 2005 book "12 True Crime Stories that Shocked Australia" by Paul Anderson, which "deconstructs twelve of Australia's most intriguing and hideous crime cases" Sharpe's police confession is also highlighted in the 2008 book "Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis" 3rd ed. by Brent E. Turvey.
In August 2009, the case was again reviewed on the 60 Minutes programme "Unmasking the Truth" about human lie detectors who can unmask killers "tearfully pleading for help in finding a missing loved one. And all the time, they know their husband, wife, even their own child, is already dead."
Read more about this topic: Sharpe Family Murders
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