Fake train ticket, abandoned car: $500k reward in cold case murder
Police have announced a $500,000 reward for information which could help them crack a 30-year cold case, where a father disappeared without a trace in North Queensland.
Cold Cases
Man vanished without a trace hours after pub fight
An altercation at a North Queensland pub before a 20-year-old man vanished will form part of investigations into one of the nation’s most baffling cold cases.
Human remains raise hope cold case may yet be cracked
It’s the missing person mystery that’s gripped a small Central Queensland town for almost 15 years. But the cold case puzzle of what happened to Francis “Frank” Foley is finally being pieced together.
‘What’s changed?’ Family stunned as cold case triple murder charges dropped
The family of a victim of the infamous 45-year-old Spear Creek murders has called for an inquest after murder charges against the former suspect were dropped at the last minute.
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15 Qld cold cases: Chilling list of unsolved crimes
Murders, kidnappings, arsons, and assaults. We take a look at the cold cases haunting investigators — and the rewards on offer to help solve the crimes — some even decades on.
Screams, bloody body but no killer: New suspect in oldest cold case
Betty Shanks was brutally murdered, with her bloodied body found in a Brisbane garden three blocks from her home. Now, cold case investigator Mike King has a new theory about what happened.
Convicted NCA bomber still in hospital after collapsing
NCA bomber Domenic Perre remains at the RAH after he fainted following his conviction on Thursday. See how the victims reacted to the stunning verdict.
From lotto jackpot to murder: inside Sydney horror story
Winning the lotto is every blue collar family’s dream but for Bazil Thorne it quickly turned into a nightmare when his son Graeme was snatched off the streets of Bondi.
Murder in paradise: Execution that exposed Whitsundays’ seedy underbelly
A brutal execution-style murder has exposed Airlie Beach’s seedy underworld but it took 15 years before the shocking details could be publicly laid bare.
Fresh twist in mystery disapperances
Police have launched a new appeal for information into separate disappearances of two men in NSW, with one of the cases being treated as suspicious.
Cop ‘had it in’ for Tyrrell person of interest: court
A former person of interest in William Tyrrell’s disappearance will argue in court ex-Detective Gary Jubelin “had it in for him”.
How psychic led to ‘killer bikie’ in murder mystery
Lynette Mullane’s murder has taken a new twist, with a psychic leading to a new theory after the grandmother was found dead in her home with blood dripping from her mouth.
Sydney’s forgotten ‘Cocaine Queen’
A witness to one of Sydney’s oldest cold cases, madam May Smith, was later arrested by our first female detective. She was jailed and then disappeared from public records — and from memory.
Commodore key to solving petrol bomb killing of teen
A white Commodore could be the missing piece in the tragic puzzle of a 13-year-old’s firebombing death, which has left devastated mum Julie Szabo still waiting for justice 24 years later.
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