Kay Duke

Working as an academic for ten years (and school leader and teacher for 25 years), Kay has utilised her thorough research skills in writing books and several chapters in texts and journal articles. Kate has also served a ‘writers in residence’ term at the Queensland Writer’s Centre.

About Kay

Kay is the author of the True Crime book The Mail Train Murders, published in 2024 about Herbert Kopit, who murdered two men and maimed another on the Bundaberg-Brisbane mail train in 1936. Her extensive research for this publication led Kay to the Balmoral Cemetery in Brisbane, and her presentation today will detail how that experience helped her to unearth new clues and piece together more of the complex story behind the shocking crime.