![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.
The disappearance of Gaye Baker in 1972 is one of the state’s most baffling mysteries. As police launch a fresh appeal and reward, our new Person Of Interest podcast explores the events before she vanished without a trace. LISTEN TO EPISODE 1.
Their son went missing six years ago in Queensland’s southwest and his death was ruled as ‘likely misadventure’. But Jason Vance’s parents, and the police, say there is more to this cold case than meets the eye, and a huge reward is now on offer to catch a killer.
It is the case that continues to haunt all of Australia – especially the detective tasked with finding just what happened to William Tyrrell. Retired Detective Inspector Gary Jubelin, now an investigative reporter with The Sunday Telegraph, breaks his silence on the case.
A retired police detective remains convinced now-dead serial killer Ivan Milat was involved in the deaths of two North Queensland region girls nearly five decades ago, as he explains why now’s the time for an inquest.
It was the murder that stunned Melbourne, and has had police stumped for 21 years. The investigation into the death of John Furlan in a large-scale car-bomb explosion still remains unsolved, despite the severity of the explosion.
Ivan Milat took to his grave the true number of people he killed with two top former detectives — retired chief superintendent Wayne Gordon and retired Assistant Commissioner Clive Small — estimating the toll to be at least 13, and likely far higher.
A knife-wielding rapist who attacked an Adelaide Hills woman as she slept has finally been found and convicted of the crime more than a decade after he fled into the night.
The case for exhuming the mysterious Somerton Man — a case that has baffled the state for decades — is at a critical point, where leaving it too much longer risks losing crucial DNA.
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