Arthur Haines escaped a Waterloo home as it burned around him,suffering burns to 60 per cent of his body. He died in hospital 11 weeks later.
The man,dubbed “The Gentleman” by investigators in 1994 after his body was found by police off the coast Germany may have lived most of his life in Australia.
As part of the re-opening of the case,detectives have called on the public to listen closely to a phone call made shortly after the killing in an attempt to identify who is on the call and to decipher a number of inaudible words.
Toby Moran was extradited from Perth on Wednesday by detectives investigating the 2005 murder of German backpacker Simone Strobel in Lismore.
Toby Moran was arrested in Perth on Monday and is set to fly to NSW on Wednesday to face charges relating to the 2005 murder of Simone Strobel.
On Father’s Day,1981,Deborah Smykalla drove home to Capalaba,where a soon-to-be killer lurked. But who knew she was alone before she was found with her head in an oven,dog lead around her neck?
The case of Gordana Kotevski,16,last seen being forced into a vehicle in 1994,has been chosen to feature in an AFP campaign for International Missing Children’s Day.
Witnesses told police they saw a woman’s legs protruding from a van’s passenger door on the night Amanda Byrnes was last seen.
In recent years,there has been a marked increase in million-dollar rewards on offer. In NSW,there are currently 248 rewards ranging from $50,000 to $1 million on offer for information that leads to a conviction.
Married couple Robert and Anne Geeves,both 61,were arrested over the disappearance of the 19-year-old in 2002.
The arrests come just eight days after a $1 million reward was offered for information about Amber Haigh’s disappearance in 2002.