A woman murdered in a brutal home invasion, another attacked on a sunny beach and a mild mannered man who walked from his home and was never seen alive again. Police say the killers in these Victorian cold cases can still be brought to justice.
A businessman killed by a sniper’s bullet, a young man betrayed by those he thought were friends and women murdered in the most brutal fashion. They are cold case murders where police are tantalisingly close to bringing their killers to justice.
From a mum gunned down in her Niddrie driveway to a mechanic blown up in a suspected Mafia car bomb, these are the crimes that rocked Melbourne’s northwest. And in all cases the killer remains on the loose.
From Boronia schoolgirl Bung Siriboon to former owner of the Cuckoo Wilhelm “Willi” Koeppen, there has been no shortage of high-profile disappearances in the east over the years. We take a look at some of the most baffling cases.
Marion Barter has been missing for 22 years, her daughter has never given up hope, but now a breakthrough in the search may lead to answers.
A road worker is seemingly plucked off his steam roller in an isolated spot known for strange lights in the sky. The engine is still running. There are no tracks in the red dust. Forty years to the day, can this mystery finally be solved?
The body of notorious gangster John Dillinger will be exhumed 85 years after he was killed by FBI agents, but the grave escape plot will be an incredibly tough job.
More than $2 million is up for grabs for tips leading to the arrest and prosecution of the people responsible for 10 unsolved cold cases in North Queensland.
It’s Melbourne’s body in the barrel case — 70-year-old grandmother Lucia Amenta found curled in a foetal position in a barrel dumped in a Coburg lake. Ten years on, the case remains tantalisingly close to being solved.
Adelaide schoolteacher Anthea Bradshaw-Hall was murdered in Brunei 25 years ago. Despite their remarkable efforts, her grieving family fear her killer will never be brought to justice.
Homicide detectives will review the cold case murders of Sydney mothers Eva Webel and Denise Govendir, both of whom were bashed and killed in their homes 15 years apart. Their deaths were investigated in a Sunday Telegraph podcast series, The Alibi.
The unsolved execution of standover man Richard Mladenich in a seedy St Kilda motel shook Melbourne’s underworld nearly two decades ago. And police have revealed the unlikely murder weapon in the fresh push to find his killer.
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