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Murdered man Bryan Hodgkinson.

New DNA, a $500k reward and a son desperate for answers

‘What happened? Why it happened? Who did it?’ Stephen Hodgkinson hopes enhanced forensic testing will help reveal who killed his father Bryan nearly 40 years ago.

  • William Davis

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A sketch of the ring the man was wearing at the time, from the police case file.

Could one clue solve the mystery of a man’s body found in a country river 53 years ago?

A unique wedding ring could be the key to revealing the identity of a mystery man found dead in a river in country Victoria in 1971.

  • Alexander Darling and Cassandra Morgan
WA Police believe this yellow panel van could hold clues to the disappearance of Lisa Mott in 1980.

Yellow panel van could hold clue to 44-year-old WA murder mystery

WA Police have launched a fresh appeal for information in an attempt to solve the suspected killing of Lisa Mott in Collie in 1980. 

  • Heather McNeill
WA Police have made a breakthrough in the cold case murder of Kerryn Tate, with DNA evidence linking Terence Fisher (left) to the case as a suspect.

‘He’s not going to hurt anyone else’: Family’s relief as suspect identified in Perth murder mystery

Kerryn Mary Tate was murdered in 1979, found dead in dense Karragullen bushland. Almost five decades later, DNA found at the scene has been linked to a man who died in 2000.

  • Holly Thompson
First class constable Leslie Andrew Nash’s death was reported as a suicide in 1935.

Murder, accident, suicide? Mysterious death of Sydney police officer re-examined after 90 years

In an extraordinary judgment in the Supreme Court last week, Peter Nash learnt a new inquest had been ordered into his father’s 1935 death.

  • Michael McGowan
Jessie Grace Lauder (right) with a relative.

Man charged following four-decade probe into alleged double rape of grandmother

The arrest is a major breakthrough into the investigation of the alleged rape of Newport grandmother Jessie Grace Lauder in 1981 and 1983.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola and Angus Delaney
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Lorrin Whitehead disappeared in 2013. The image on the right is a digital depiction of what she may look like today.

New search launched for woman who vanished 12 years ago

Police are scouring a private property outside Geelong after gathering intelligence that Lorrin Whitehead’s remains may be located there.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Police are offering a $500,000 reward to solve the alleged murder of William Rogers.

‘Callous and cowardly’: Hunt for killer of taxi driver shot down in cold blood

William Rogers was shot in the chest and left for dead in Sydney’s inner west. Police are offering a $500,000 reward for information to help catch his alleged killer.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Firefighters work in the ashes of the Oakdale Guest House, a Queenslander-style residential boarding house at 5 Milford Street, Ipswich, Queensland, which was destroyed because of an intense fire that broke out at 3am on Saturday, December 29, 1990.

$500,000 reward offered over cold case blaze

Twenty-eight people were living in an Ipswich boarding house when it burnt down in a suspected 1990 arson attack.

  • William Davis
Christian Brueckner arrives at the Landgericht Braunschweig state courthouse for one of the final days of his trial for sex crimes.

Madeleine McCann prime suspect acquitted of separate charges

Convicted paedophile and rapist Christian Brückner could be released from prison next year after he was acquitted of separate rape charges by a controversial German judge.

  • Rob Hyde

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