Lucille’s brother still digging for answers
John Butterworth has spent the past week getting his hands dirty as he continues his search for answers into the unsolved disappearance of his beauty queen sister.
Cold Cases
‘I could hear Kirra screaming’: Neighbour’s haunting words
A new true crime podcast is shining a spotlight on the death of Queensland mother Kirra McLoughlin in 2014, with autopsy reports indicating 105 “signs of recent injury” on her body.
Skull found in Sydney bushland finally has a face
A human skull found by children playing in Sydney bushland in 2001 now has a face after NSW Police used digital reconstruction to try to identify the man who died nearly 40 years ago. WATCH THE AMAZING VIDEO
DNA technique reveals cold case family links
A new DNA testing method is shedding light on long dormant cases as far back as the 1993 murder of Suzanne Poll.
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A suspect still in the crosshairs
MAJOR Crime detectives have revealed they plan to submit a key exhibit in the Yasmin Sinodinos murder case to Forensic Science SA, for fresh testing in an effort to gain more evidence against Timo Pasanen, the key suspect in the case.
Son offers new lead in mother-daughter Tapp murders
WHAT sort of man murders a nine-year-old girl and her mother? A man strong enough to subdue and strangle Ferntree Gully mother Margaret Tapp, a fit 35-year-old fighting to save her daughter from a murderous sexual predator. Now a son has come forward with a new shocking revelation — he thinks that man might be his father.
The mystery of Bradford Pholi’s disappearance
IT IS Boxing Day, 1982, a young indigenous boy jumps the back fence of his Dundas Valley home to scurry off to Eastwood station — he is on a mission to borrow money for his mother — minutes later his brother goes after him, but Bradford Pholi is never seen again.
The 35-year-old cold case that had police ‘baffled’
LINDA Reed had a wonderful life ahead of her, with plans to have a family with the man she was head over heels in love with — and then it was all cruelly snatched away.
Morcombe lawyer joins battle for justice
THE lawyer who helped gain an inquest and eventual justice for the Morcombes has joined the fight for truth in another controversial case.
Was this the perfect murder?
WHEN the semi-naked bodies of two illicit lovers were found in suburban scrub after a New Year’s Eve tryst, it kicked off one of the nation’s most baffling murder mysteries. Five decades on, it remains unsolved.
New clue in teen runaway slayings
SOMEBODY stabbed two teenagers to death and left their bodies at a Victorian rest stop. But does a new witness raise the awful possiblity there was a third victim of this horrific crime? ANDREW RULE PODCAST
‘How I was falsely accused of Linda Reed’s murder’
HE killed people, but he didn’t kill Linda Reed. That was Craig McConnell’s defence when he was falsely accused of her murder in 1986. He has spoken out after a man was arrested for Ms Reed’s killing this week.
Tormented letter writer could solve mum’s murder
THE author of an anonymous letter about the murder of Victorian mother-of-three Kath Bergamin is tormented by guilt, police say, as they urge the person to come forward.
Accused killer only on police radar recently
A MAN accused of abducting and killing a 21-year-old Gold Coast woman in a random attack almost 40 years ago only came to the attention of investigators recently, police say.
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