Perry Kouroumblis,now 65,is suspected of killing two women in the 1977 Easey Street murders – and one of Melbourne’s oldest schools links him to the victims.
Police in Victoria will seek to extradite the man from Rome over a double murder mystery dating back to the 1970s.
Police had told Suzanne Armstrong’s sister Gayle years ago that they wouldn’t give up on the murder case. So she didn’t either,always hoping a breakthrough might come.
Peter Hiscock said the arrest of a suspect at an airport in Rome was a great relief:“I thought I would go to my grave with the case unsolved.”
For six years this masthead has agreed to keep the breakthrough secret to avoid alerting the suspect.
On a stifling summer night in January 1977,school friends Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were stabbed more than 80 times in their Collingwood home.