Denver Marchant was the police officer in charge of the crime scene in 1965 when a dead baby was found packed and posted to Darwin in the mail Almost 50 years ago retired policeman Denver Marchant stood in a Darwin post office, investigating the shocking case of a dead newborn baby who had been posted in the mail. The case was never solved, but it always stayed in the back of Mr Marchant's mind. Last Friday, the 73-year-old who now lives in Queensland returned to Darwin for a rugby league reunion, and his partner Marilyn booked him into a hotel on Knuckey Street in the city centre.
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In 1965 postal worker John Polishuk opened a foul-smelling package
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He was horrified to find a dead baby boy who still had his umbilical cord
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The package had been sent to Darwin from a fake address in Victoria
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The policeman in charge of the crime scene has never been able to put the notorious cold case out of his mind
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Denver Marchant is releasing new details that he hopes will solve the case
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Mr Marchant pictured (left) in 1962 when he first started working for the @placeholder police and (right) in 2013