The truth about Tasha  Mourning her sister: Helen Kirwan-Taylor
was 12 when Tasha, 14, was bound, gagged and murdered The other
week I received a bundle of newspaper cuttings from a woman
called Susan Craig. She was a schoolfriend of my sister Tasha
who was brutally murdered in the grounds of their school in
1973.  As I write, I'm looking at a picture of an ambulance
leaving the school surrounded by police cars. The caption reads:
"The body of Natalia Semler (Tasha) leaves the Madeira campus in
a rescue squad van." I feel sick typing these words.  I had
recently written an article on the murder for an American
magazine, and what was meant to be a cathartic exercise - an
attempt at finding closure - turned out to be one of the most
destructive and painful things I have ever experienced.  After
the story was published, dozens of emails reached me, many from
Tasha's classmates wanting to share their grief. One evening I
came home to find an email in my inbox from a woman whom John
Gilreath, the psychopath who mu