Janita McNaughton was only 23 when she was shot between the eyes while on board a boat with four other people almost three decades ago. Now police are offering a huge reward to solve her mysterious death.
A man from the US has stumped up $1 million of his own money in a bid to solve the gay-hate murder of his brother in Sydney 30 years ago. Matched with NSW Police’s own contribution the reward now totals $2 million.
The angry families of three children murdered by a suspected serial killer have accused the NSW government of putting up a $1 million reward to shut them up after rejecting moves that could have put the suspect back before a court.
It was the murder that shocked the Gold Coast almost 30 years ago. But now, the victim’s son believes he has received his “last chance” at justice.
Fifty years after Lucille Butterworth disappeared from a Claremont bus stop, her brother has dived into the River Derwent and is “confident of finding something.”
A young woman was found dead lying on a makeshift bench press with a barbel over her neck in the garage of her Preston home in 2010. Police have now revealed a possible reason behind her murder.
Decorated former soldier Jeffrey Tun Tin and wife Julie pleaded with their son James to stop growing cannabis in his garden shed. They feared not only for his health, but also that the illegal practice would place him in danger. Tragically, they were right.
Two Australian women — both much-loved mothers — gunned down at their own homes, just weeks apart. If that wasn’t shocking enough, neither was the intended victim.
The man said to be America’s worst serial killer sketched his victims. Now the FBI has released his drawings to identify them.
Franco Murat was an invalid pensioner who was fatally set on fire by three people who broke into his Adelaide home — they were never caught. However, a cache of opals may be the key to solving his callous murder.
He’d raped and killed before, but somehow Puffing Billy volunteer Malcolm Clarke escaped suspicion when a little girl was murdered at the house where he’d once lived. It would take a cunning undercover sting to finally catch him.
Murder victim Salvatore “Sam” Rotiroti’s daughter Maria is living with the man accused by Victoria Police of killing her father in what is just the latest twist in the 1988 cold case.
Australia’s greatest homicide detective Ron Iddles solved 99 per cent of the murders he took on – but the cold case of Gina Rossato and the missing trifle bowl continues to haunt him, 37 years on.
The final moments of Julian Neuendorf’s life were horrifyingly violent. After he was viciously beaten and shot, his lifeless body was dumped in the Logan River. Police believe a seven minute window holds the key to catching his killers.
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