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EXCLUSIVE NEWS360 PREMIUM LOCKED CONTENTNO NEWS.COM, NO SKY, NO WEST AUSTRALIAN, NO AUSTRALIAN**ONLINE EMBARGO UNTIL FRIDAY 2ND, AUGUST 2019** Desmond Carr was working on a steam roller on what would become Australia's longest highway in WA on August 2, 1979 but mysteriously disappeared, the engine on his machine still running. There were theories of UFOs but new clues are starting to emerge. Picture: Supplied
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UFO sightings on outback highway as man disappears

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?

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Artwork for Lost in Sydney podcast episode IV.

The grandmother who just vanished

PODCAST: A loving grandmother went for a walk to the shops and was never seen again. The only sign of her, a handbag found in the bush. Her family said she fell in with ‘undesirables’ but haven’t given up hope after 15 years. Listen to Lost in Sydney podcast episode IV.

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Steven Zenuni charged along with Domenico Papalia with the muder of Edward Camilleri whose body was found in an olive grove at Two Wells. Zenuni outside the Supreme court.

How five words snared a killer

DETECTIVE Sergeant Phil Neagle was about to shut the book on the 2011 murder of Edward “Eddie” Camilleri when a young catwalk model muttered five words that changed it all.

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Burleigh Heads where friends of murdered man Omega Ruston have made a memorial at the scene of his murder.

Bus stop shooting mystery endures

ALMOST 10 years after Omega Ruston was gunned down next to a bus stop in an Australia Day road rage attack, it remains one of the Gold Coast’s few unsolved murder mysteries.

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Courts. Timo Pasanen accused of the murder of Yasmin Sinodinos outside the Supreme court during his trial.

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.

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21/07/2008 NEWS: Seana Tapp - found murdered, after being sexually assulted in her home in Fern Tree Gully, in August, 1984.

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.

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The mystery of Bradford Pholi’s disappearance

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.

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