Bogle Chandler Mystery

On the morning of January 1st 1963, two youths were searching for golf balls near Fuller’s Bridge on the Lane Cove River in Sydney. In a pit in the mangroves that was along a dirt track that ran along the river, they found the body of Dr Gilbert Bogle. When the police arrived they later found another body identified as Mrs Margaret Chandler which was lying around 44meters away from Dr Bogles.

Both Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler had been at Ken and Ruth Nash New years eve party in Chatswood which is several kilometers from the Lane Cove River. Mrs Chandler went to the party with her husband Geoffrey Chandler.

Mr Chandler and his wife went to the party, but during the party Mr Chandler left to goto another party. At the other party he celebrated New years with Pam Logan who he had been seeing behind his wifes back for some time.

Geoffrey Chandler returned to the Nash party but for only a little while. He then left the party to go pick up his kids and thinking that his wife would go home with Dr Bogle. He stopped by Pam Logan’s house to pick her up and bring her with him to get the kids.

As their were no other signs of injuries, it was quickly determined that the two had been poisoned. The questions of what and how Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler were poisoned. The four possibilities were double suicide, murder suicide, accidental poisoning or double murder.

The first two possibilities were quickly discounted as Dr Bogle or Mrs Chandler were not the type to commit suicide. So either the couple were accidentally poisoned or murdered either way they were poisoned so police named three places where they’d check for poison. At the party, In Dr Bogles car and in the bodies of the two.

At this time police have no key suspects for the murders. Police are telling us that the two victims were either murdered because of Dr Bogle and his work and that Mrs chandler was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. It also could have been an act of jealousy. The signs of poisoning are looking slimmer and slimmer as no conclusive evidence has come from any samples taken from or around the bodies found.