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[Rikissa]

Australia - Elizabeth Struhs, 2, killed after parents deny her insulin believing that God would heal her - July 17, 2024

https://people.com/parents-on-trial-for-allegedly-killing-8-year-old-diabetic-daughter-8679230 Her father, Jason Struhs, 52, was charged with her murder, along with the leader of an Australian religious group known as the “Saints” to which the family belonged, Brendan Stevens, 62. The girl’s...

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Australia - 3 dead after eating wild mushrooms, Leongatha, Victoria, Aug 2023 #7 *Arrest*

Most of the details from the Melbourne-based hearing, before judicial registrar Tim Freeman, cannot be reported for legal reasons. Victoria's Judicial Proceedings Reports Act prevents media reporting of most events in the courtroom during the pre-trial phase of the case, when a jury has not yet...

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Australia - Help reviewing aerial images from missing persons searches

Just found this out and thought others may find it interesting and may want to help out. Working Drones Australia is a commercial drones operator who has been involved in multiple missing persons searches in the last few years. Visiting this website you have access to their aerial images for...

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[Rikissa]

This thread from December 2022 doesn't seem to have been posted here. The suspect is awaiting trial.

Australia - Todd Mooney, 54, Kirra Mooney, 10, died in shed fire, Biggenden Qld, 20 Dec 2022

The bodies of Todd Mooney, 54, and his daughter Kirra, 10, were found in the burnt-out shed The police investigation has been upgraded to homicide after initially believing it was a "terrible, tragic accident" SES volunteers are searching nearby paddocks for a potential weapon Detective...

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Australia - Kiesha Thompson , 24, Alleged deliberate hit-and-run - deceased , Daisy Hill- Brisbane , QLD , 19th July 2024- 2 people charged.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-3237081/Video-Kiesha-Thompsons-family-statement-following-death.html https://x.com/mapfemicide?lang=en Australian Femicide Watch @MapFemicide · 13h SHE MATTERS: KEISHA THOMPSON! July 19, 2024: 23-year-old Kiesha Thompson was allegedly run down by...

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Australia - father accused of trying to kill family in housefire, 3 of 7 children killed - Lalor Park NSW - July 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13607885/Lalor-Park-house-fire-three-children-dead.html

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Australia - Zane Stevens ,21, last seen Coconut Wells, Friday, April 26, Broome, WA

Zane Stevens: Search for missing man north of Broome reaches fourth day Tue, 30 April 2024 11:55AM Zane Stevens Credit: supplied/RegionalHUB The search for missing man Zane Stevens has reached its fourth day, with specialist resources from Perth being used to look for the 21-year-old, last...

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From 30 December, 2023:

Australia - Melissa Hoskins, 32, Olympian cyclist, struck & killed by ute, husband Rohan Dennis arrested and charged - Medindie, SA, 30 Dec 2023

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-31/melissa-hoskins-rohan-dennis-charged-over-death-crash-husband/103275894 SA Police said emergency services were called to Avenel Gardens Road in Medindie just after 8pm, following reports that a woman had been hit by a car. Police said Ms Hoskins suffered...

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[Rikissa]

2 August 2024:

Australia - Frances Crawford 49, found dead after suspicious lawn mower accident in Queensland.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13700631/Upper-Lockyer-lawn-mower-death-RAAF-Pilot-Robert-Crawford-frances-crawford.html

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Missing since 4 February 2024:

Australia - Samantha Murphy, 51, last seen leaving her property to go for a run in the Canadian State Forest, Ballarat, 4 Feb 2024 *Arrest* #11

Tragic Milestone "It’s been six months since Samantha Murphy failed to return home from a run and although a man has been charged with her murder, her body has not been found." :(...

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Missing since May 2023:

Australia - Lolita, early 30s, Saudi asylum seeker, child bride, disappeared May 2023 from Melbourne

Lolita, a Saudi woman in her early 30s, came to Australia to seek asylum in May 2022. She had been forced to marry as child an older man in Saudi Arabia. Less than a year after having arrived to Australia she vanished, according to a friend she was taken from her apartment by a group of Saudi...

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From June 2022:

Australia- Two sisters in their 20s found dead inside Sydney unit had been there lengthy time, Suspicious deaths, June 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/08/two-women-in-their-20s-found-dead-inside-sydney-unit#:~:text=Upon%20arrival%2C%20police%20officers%20entered,separate%20bedrooms%20in%20the%20apartment. ''The bodies of two sisters aged in their 20s have been found at a unit in Sydney’s...

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From 9 April 2023:

Australia - Erin Gilbert, 42, murdered, Merrylands, Sydney, 9th April 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/11/erin-gilbert-merrylands-apartment-death-woman-identified-dead-flat-unit-sydney Woman found dead in Sydney apartment identified as Erin Gilbert Neighbours at Merrylands apartment block called police about 11.30pm on Easter Sunday to...

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Australia - Krishank Karthik, 16, left home 07.45am in Truganina, Melbourne 5th August 2024.

missing Melbourne schoolboy who hasn't been seen for more than three days had not attended school for two weeks - but his family did not know. Krishank Karthik, 16, also known as Krish, left his Truganina home in Melbourne's west on Monday at around 7.45am headed towards Suzanne Cory High...

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Missing since 22 April 2024:

Australia - Patrick Liedke, 39, missing since 22 April 2024, Tweed Heads NSW Australia

Latest News - NSW Police Public Site A search has resumed this morning for a man missing since last Monday on the Far North Coast. Patrick Liedke, 39, was last seen between 1pm and 2pm on Monday (22 April 2024) at Gray Street, Tweed Heads West. When he failed to return and could not be located...

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