Cold case reward boost offers hope to grieving families

Cold case reward boost offers hope to grieving families

Investigations into dozens of unsolved homicides and long-term suspicious missing persons cases will receive a boost with $64 million in reward money put on the table by the WA government.

  • byAaron Bunch

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‘Mum is very sick,’ alleged killer son told friend:court
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‘Mum is very sick,’ alleged killer son told friend:court

A coroner’s court findings reveal the final movements of Sydney grandmother Nadire Sensoy,more than four years before her son was charged with her murder.

  • byPerry Duffin
In Australia,he was a ‘great father’. In the US,he was a teenage killer

In Australia,he was a ‘great father’. In the US,he was a teenage killer

New DNA evidence has confirmed that a man known in Queensland as John Damon was actually William Arnold,a convicted US killer and escaped inmate.

  • byJesus Jiménez
‘It’s not about me any more’:Decades on,an attempt to solve Mary’s sexual assault case
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‘It’s not about me any more’:Decades on,an attempt to solve Mary’s sexual assault case

Mary was sexually assaulted in 1982 and her attacker has never been caught. Her case is one of those in the “freezer list”:a log of unsolved sexual assault cases Victoria Police is reinvestigating.

  • byMarta Pascual Juanola
‘My father took everything from us’:A daughter’s lament after mother’s murder

‘My father took everything from us’:A daughter’s lament after mother’s murder

Brenda Boyd was six when her father said her mother had left their home and was not coming back. She is relieved a jury “saw through all the lies”.

  • bySarah McPhee
‘Our dear brother was murdered’:$500,000 reward for answers into death of opal miner

‘Our dear brother was murdered’:$500,000 reward for answers into death of opal miner

Paul Murray was found naked and decomposing,with painful burrs in his feet,two kilometres from his camp site. His family believe he was murdered.

  • byJenny Noyes
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‘Please come forward’:Sydney teenager’s 1972 disappearance prompts $500,000 reward following fresh information

‘Please come forward’:Sydney teenager’s 1972 disappearance prompts $500,000 reward following fresh information

15-year-old Lynette Melbin,who would be in her mid-60s if still alive today,vanished after visiting her mother at Woolworths in Penrith in 1972.

  • bySarah Keoghan
Germans accused of hiding backpacker’s body will not face justice

Germans accused of hiding backpacker’s body will not face justice

Two German nationals accused of helping to cover up a murder will never face justice in Australia for their alleged roles in hiding Simone Strobel’s body outside a Lismore caravan park 17 years ago.

  • bySally Rawsthorne
Adnan Syed,Chris Dawson:Have true-crime podcasts really changed the course of history?

Adnan Syed,Chris Dawson:Have true-crime podcasts really changed the course of history?

Compelling narratives that capture our imaginations are very different to cases that can affect legal outcomes,and too often we confuse the two.

  • byKerrie O'Brien
Sydney mechanic found guilty of murdering boss in workshop

Sydney mechanic found guilty of murdering boss in workshop

Kubilay Kilincer who would “never win employee of the year” has been found guilty of murdering Hasan Dastan almost three decades ago.

  • byMargaret Scheikowski
Someone knows:How detectives and a change of conscience can crack a cold case
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Someone knows:How detectives and a change of conscience can crack a cold case

It will take old-fashioned detective work to identify who murdered Michele Brown in Frankston 30 years ago,and perhaps a change of conscience from someone in the know. The $1 million reward police have offered might also help.

  • byJohn Silvester