Cold case
Husband arrested after quarter of a century of suspicion in Sydney cold case
Something about Aaron Govendir’s story didn’t quite add up for police investigating his wife’s murder in their Dover Heights home. He has been charged with killing her.
- by Riley Walter and Jessica McSweeney
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‘Her family deserve answers’: Significant developments over teen’s disappearance
Rose Howell vanished on the Mid North Coast days before her 19th birthday. Police have searched a property near where she was last seen alive, 21 years ago.
- by Riley Walter
‘A motive to lie for podcast’: Coroner doubts man’s evidence in Sharron Phillips case
The man who accused his father of murdering Sharron Phillips, who vanished in May 1986, had a commercial motive to lie, the state’s coroner has found.
- by Rex Martinich
Barbara waved goodbye to Sydney and set off to see Australia. She hasn’t been seen since
The 23-year-old American was travelling around the country when she went missing from Beecroft 46 years ago. Now two women are determined to find out what happened.
- by Neil Mercer
‘The night she was killed we were robbed’: Loving mother killed and dumped in beachside suburb
Toni Tiki’s battered body was left in scrubland at Maroubra. Police believe a local sex offender may be the culprit as a $1 million reward is offered.
- by Jessica McSweeney
What his friend’s killer did in court set Peter on a new life mission
After losing a close friend in horrific circumstances – and witnessing his killer’s brazen insolence – Peter Rolfe knew what he had to do.
- by Greg Callaghan
A new witness and DNA profiles: Breakthrough in suspected Gold Coast murders
Two Gold Coast men disappeared 22 years ago. Police now have a new witness and DNA profiles of “possible persons of interest”.
- by Keira Jenkins
Chasing justice: Why the cold case unit never gives up
They are the experienced detectives that pore over evidence searching for the slightest clues to crack the state’s forgotten crimes – and bring hope and closure to the victims’ families.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
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Police offer $1m reward to catch frenzied killer of mother of five
Mary Anne Fagan’s killer brutally stabbed her to death, leaving her toddler alone at home and older children to discover her body when they got home from school.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
Murder of Liberal figure politically motivated, police suspect
Police are offering $500,000 for information that can solve the 1985 murder of a Serbian immigrant who was president of a Sydney Liberal Party branch. Police believed it was a political killing.
- by Jessica McSweeney
A tattoo could help solve this Sydney cold case mystery
A man was hit and killed by a train in the inner west. Decades later, detectives hope his tattoos and a computer-generated image could unlock the mystery of his identity.
- by Jessica McSweeney
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