Man alleged to have confessed MELBOURNE: — A man charged with the murder of two Shepparton teenagers 19 years ago had allegedly confessed to the killings to a priest earlier this year, Melbourne Magistrate's Court was told yesterday. Mr Raymond Edmunds, 41, a salesman, of Mordialloc, appeared before Mr Tobin in committal proceedings. No plea was taken on charges that Mr Edmunds murdered Gary Heywood,18, and Abina Madill, 16, on or about February 10, 1966. The Crown prosecutor, Mr John Dee, told the court it was alleged that Mr Edmunds had admitted the murders to a Catholic priest. The admission had not been a religious confession, but had allegedly been made to alert a family member before police did. The bodies of the teenagers were found several hundred yards apart near Lake Victoria, northern Victoria, on February 26, 1966. Mr Heywood had been shot through the head and Miss Madill had been bashed around the head. Mr Dee said that a police task force from Shepparton, acting, on information received, had gone in March this year to the Melbourne suburb of Highett where Mr Edmunds was working as a sales manager. He had been taken to St Kilda police station where he had broken down and allegedly admitted, first to a priest, that he had killed the couple. He had then allegedly admitted the murders to police. The hearing continues today.