Australia Australia - Is there a serial killer active in Melbourne's South East?

[Bohemian]

Cold case detectives launch a fresh hunt for serial killer
The Age
John Silvester
7 hours ago (as at 07:30 AEDT 21 October 2017)

‘By the time Homicide arrived at the unmade road it was already a cold trail - but now, 37 years later, police have a million reasons to believe they may catch a serial killer suspected of murdering six women taken from Melbourne streets.

It is perhaps Victoria's most baffling murder mystery - six females, aged from 14 to 73, all grabbed seemingly at random in an 18-month period and dumped in scrub. All were on foot when abducted from or near main roads - all but one in broad daylight.

In each case experts could not establish a cause of death and personal items had been removed from the victims, either to conceal identity or to be kept as trophies by the killer.

By the time the first body was found at Tynong North, on December 6, 1980, the killer had struck five times – if, that is, there was only one murderer.

There were several homicide investigations, followed by a taskforce probe, Canadian and US crime profile examinations and two criminal intelligence reviews. More than 2000 people were interviewed, 11,400 pages of notes taken and detailed coronial inquests held.

But no charges were laid. Now police will offer a $1 million reward for information they hope will lead to the person or persons responsible for the murders of two women whose bodies were found in Frankston and four found in Tynong North.

There were several homicide investigations, followed by a taskforce probe, Canadian and US crime profile examinations and two criminal intelligence reviews. More than 2000 people were interviewed, 11,400 pages of notes taken and detailed coronial inquests held.

But no charges were laid. Now police will offer a $1 million reward for information they hope will lead to the person or persons responsible for the murders of two women whose bodies were found in Frankston and four found in Tynong North.‘

Read more at:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/c...h-hunt-for-serial-killer-20171019-gz49pa.html

 

[Bohemian]

Tynong North Murders

Google search:

https://www.google.com.au/search?dc...=tynong+north+murders&oq=tynong+north+murders

 

[Bohemian]

Australia - Tynong North Murders, 1980, Melbourne, Australia

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...0-Melbourne-Australia&p=13705412#post13705412

 

[Unit45]

Seen this this morning, there was a report recently of a woman in Pakenham who hitched hiked.

A man picked her up and she was accosted in the car.

See got away but very close, to being a statistic.

 

[Bohemian]

Seen this this morning, there was a report recently of a woman in Pakenham who hitched hiked.

A man picked her up and she was accosted in the car.

See got away but very close, to being a statistic.

Police release image of man wanted in relation to sexual assault of hitchhiker in Pakenham
September 18, 2017 3:58pm
staff writer
Cranbourne Leader

Photo: Police want to speak to this man in relation to a sexual assault in Pakenham

‘HELP is needed to find a man suspected of sexually assaulting a female hitchhiker.

The 49-year-old Pakenham woman accepted a lift from a man on the Princes Highway in Beaconsfield on July 30.

The man was driving a white single-cab, flat-tray utility 100 metres west of Whiteside Rd just before midnight.

He drove the woman to Starling Rd in Officer where he allegedly sexually assaulted her.

The man is described as caucasian, aged in his 50s, with a medium build and sandy hair which was short on the sides and curly on the top. He told the victim that he lived in Warragul.’

Photo: An image of a white Toyota Hilux ute driven by a man police want to speak to in relation to the sexual assault of a hitchhiker in Pakenham.

‘The vehicle is described as similar to a white 2001 Toyota Hilux single-cab, flat-tray utility.

The tray is brown with no sides or back.’

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/...m/news-story/5ae2f0fc2f1a8f705907a1e776b6cc71

 

[dotr]

New hunt for a serial killer: Cold case into the deaths of six women murdered in the 1980s reopened as police offer $6MILLION for new information

• Victoria police have offered $6 million of rewards in a hope to catch a cold killer
• The families of six murdered women hope new information will come to light
• Police have offered the $1 million for each of the women who were found dead
• Their deaths occurred in the 1980s and they were aged between 14 and 73 years

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ormation-cold-case-murders.html#ixzz4w7WMRu2i
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Bodies were found in dense bush at Frankston, in bayside Melbourne, and at Tynong North, south-east of Melbourne

Victoria Police Homicide Squad Detective Inspector Mick Hughes said one victim, Bertha Miller, was approached by a man at a tram two weeks before her death while she had been carrying a bible.

'She spoke to a friend after that and was pretty encouraged, she saw that as an opportunity to talk Christianity to that person,' he said.

Case detectives were never been able to identify who that man was but say they are working on a theory that picks him as the offender.

'If we look at all of the victims, they've either been using public transport or close to, so he's clearly seen a way in to talk to Bertha, because everything I'm told about her, she wouldn't engage with people unless there was a reason to do so.'

​

​

 

[Bohemian]

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ormation-cold-case-murders.html#ixzz4w7WMRu2i
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

​

I made a thread for the Tynong North/Frankston Murders here, dotr, if you’d like to post this information there too:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...0-Melbourne-Australia&p=13705412#post13705412

[*Note: I posted the excellent map there but the other quotes were snipped by WS’ formatting when I replied.]