![09/1974. Damian McKenzie, 10, (Centre) school boy who is missing in the Mt Kitchener area since Wednesday. He was with a group of other boys on a hike to the Steavenson Falls, near Marysville.[Herald 6/9/1974]](https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/15362f555a860e42711dc09b91e6ca95?width=650)
Almost 300,000 reports flooded into Crime Stoppers during the four years Det-Sgt Stephen McKenzie was there. Sadly, none provided the information he desperately wanted to hear — what happened to his brother Damian who vanished without a trace in 1974.
Mark Russell was found dead inside his Sydney home more than two years ago. A coroner has now ruled on the circumstances behind his death.
The family of murdered boy Gerard Ross believe “someone somewhere knows what happened” to him and hope a $1 million reward will help solve the 23-year-old Perth mystery.
An ex-detective has been quizzed about a “shocking” revelation in his police diary about a widower bashed to death with a statue of the Virgin Mary.
After the young woman’s body was found weighed down in a Canberra lake with more than 60 stab wounds, theories ranged from a twisted love triangle to marauding bikies. Today key players don’t want “to re-live any of this s—”, but her parents hold out fresh hope for answers.
A new witness has emerged who could hold answers into Tasmania’s most documented cold case investigation — the disappearance of Tasmanian model Lucille Butterworth.
Two years, thousands of exhibits from across the state, more than $15m in rewards and all the technology of modern-day policing — Queensland’s crack cold case team is solving some of the oldest murder mysteries in Australian history.
A panicked Paul Kingsbury called a family member to arrange a meeting in the dead of night just hours before disappearing in 2014. What happened to him after that is a mystery, but a skull that washed up on a Geelong beach could hold some answers.
More than $1.5 million is on offer for information helping to solve some of the Geelong region’s most mysterious and brutal cold cases.
More than $1.5 million is on offer for information helping to solve some of the Geelong region’s most mysterious and brutal cold cases.
It’s been almost three years since Elly Warren was found dead face down in the sand behind a toilet block in Mozambique. Now her Melbourne dad says police inaction means he has no choice but to fly to Africa track down her killer — all by himself.
Homicide detectives will travel across the country to meet with new and original witnesses after launching a review into a disturbing Gold Coast murder from 27 years ago.
Police are reinvestigating the horrific murder of a wealthy elderly widower on the Gold Coast who was found bound and gagged nearly 30 years ago in what was thought to be a home invasion gone wrong.
The disappearance of road worker Des Carr 40 years ago this week will finally go before a coroner after his family’s true crime podcast unearthed startling new evidence.
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