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Meet Queensland’s crack cold case team
Cold Cases

Meet Queensland’s crack cold case team

Two years, thousands of exhibits from across the state, more than $15m in rewards and all the technology of modern-day policing — Queensland’s crack cold case team is solving some of the oldest murder mysteries in Australian history.

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Does skull on beach solve Paul’s final moments?

A panicked Paul Kingsbury called a family member to arrange a meeting in the dead of night just hours before disappearing in 2014. What happened to him after that is a mystery, but a skull that washed up on a Geelong beach could hold some answers.

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The day a city lost its innocence

BRISBANE can pinpoint the day it lost its innocence. When the dark shadow of evil darkened the door of every household. When one innocent woman’s name came to signify terror.

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Why have these murders been forgotten?

IT should be one of Melbourne’s most infamous unsolved cases: a mum murdered and her little girl raped and strangled in her bed. So why have we forgotten the Tapp murders? Andrew Rule investigates.

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Son still searching for answers in callous killing

BRODIE Bailey was just six years old when his mother Tamara Smith was slain in regional Queensland in 2002. With her ex-boyfriend acquitted of the killing on appeal, Brodie now wants a coronial inquiry to finally know the truth, writes Chris Clarke.

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