17/08/2025
On a cold June night in 2009, Pyramid Hill became the backdrop for one of Victoria’s most enduring mysteries. Krystal Fraser – just 23 years old and nine months pregnant – walked out into the dark and was never seen again.
She had every reason to be at home, waiting for her baby to arrive. Instead, she discharged herself from hospital against medical advice, insisting she was heading to a party in Cohuna. Whether that party even existed remains one of the most haunting questions of the case.
The night unfolded like a puzzle with missing pieces. At 8.40pm, Krystal was seen stepping off the train at Pyramid Hill station. By 9.30pm, she’d left an address in Albert Street after visiting an acquaintance. Then – nothing. Her last known movements blur into rumour and silence.
But the police have clung to one eerie thread: a 40-second phone call. At 11.59pm, Krystal’s mobile rang. The call came from a public phone booth outside the Leitchville Post Office, a lonely box of glass and steel lit under streetlights.
Less than three hours later, her phone was still pinging off the Leitchville tower at 2.49am, suggesting she stayed in the area… or that someone else did, carrying her phone with them.
Leitchville itself is only a short drive from Cohuna, the town where she claimed a party was waiting. But no one has ever proven it took place. Was it a lure? A trap? Or did Krystal genuinely believe she was going somewhere safe?
The details are chilling.
She wore an orange top, black trackpants, a camouflage-patterned baseball cap. Detectives stressed the importance of the baby she was carrying – a child with a life-threatening condition, one who could not have survived without urgent surgery after birth.
Every angle of this story is lined with shadows. A phone call from a booth at midnight. A party that may never have existed. A heavily pregnant woman stepping into the night with no way back.
Sixteen years later, the questions still hang heavy in Pyramid Hill and Leitchville: who picked up that phone, who was waiting for Krystal, and who knows the truth of what happened after she answered that call?
