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Australia Thread 'Australia - Olivia, 13, Bacchus Marsh, 18 Sep 2024'

Teen missing from west Vic town for nearly two weeks

A 13-year-old girl last seen in Bacchus Marsh has now been missing for nearly a fortnight.
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Police are calling on assistance to locate a young Bacchus Marsh girl who has been missing for four days.

Olivia, aged 13, was last seen in Bacchus Marsh about 2.30pm on Wednesday September 18, 2024.

On Saturday, Victoria Police put out a call on social media for anyone with information of her whereabouts to contact Bacchus Marsh Police Station.
Police seek help to find missing Bacchus Marsh girl, 13 | The Courier | Ballarat, VIC
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Australia Thread 'Saije Saumaitoga, 14-year-old boy last seen 5 June 2024.Saije Saumaitoga was last seen in Dulwich Hill, in Sydney’s inner west, about 9am on Wednesday'

Search for boy, 14, missing from Dulwich Hill for 10 days​

A desperate search is underway for a teenage boy not seen in 10 days.

A desperate search is unfolding for a 14-year-old boy not seen in 10 days.
Saije Saumaitoga was last seen in Dulwich Hill, in Sydney’s inner west, about 9am on Wednesday June 5.

He remained in contact with his family until June 13, but was reported missing after he was unable to be reached or located, sparking a police search for the teen.

Police and his family are particularly concerned due to his young age.

Saije is of caucasian appearance, 180cm tall...
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Thread 'Australia: Man Charged With Attempted Murder By Poisoning Wife's Tea With Insecticide, St Andrews, Sydney. Arrested Tuesday 8th October 2024'


A semi-retired businessman has been charged with trying to kill his wife with a cup of tea laced with a commonly available ant poison.

Police arrested Stephan Wagner, 61, on Tuesday and seized a bottle of Ant-Rid from his home at St Andrews, in Sydney’s south-west.
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Australia Thread 'Australia- Julie Garciacelay, 19, librarian @ Southdown Press, missing sister's apt; blood-soaked towel & cut-up underwear found, Melbourne, July '75.'

Oct; 11, '24 by Wendy Tuohy rbbm
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Julie Garciacelay. A coroner found in 2018 that the teen was murdered by persons unknown.
www.smh.com.au

Easey Street breakthrough raises hopes in another cold case murder mystery

Julie Garciacelay was 19 when she vanished, presumed murdered, from her bloodied apartment in 1975. Her 92-year-old mother hopes to get answers before she dies.
www.smh.com.au www.smh.com.au
'Garciacelay hasn’t been seen since July 1975 when blood and slashed underwear were found in her North Melbourne flat.
“It gets harder,” said O’Keeffe, founder of The Missed Foundation, who will this month travel to California to meet Ruth Garciacelay, Julie’s mother.'
''Julie had only been in...
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Thread 'Australia - Youtuber and rapper Yung Filly charged with raping and choking woman - Oct. 11, 2024'

nypost.com

YouTuber and rapper Yung Filly is charged with raping and choking a woman in Australia

The rappers bail conditions include that he remain in Western Australia state, doesn’t contact his alleged victim and doesn’t post about the case on social media.
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The 29-year-old, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, was freed on bail when he appeared Thursday on several charges in a court in Perth, the west coast city where police allege his crimes were allegedly committed on Sept. 28.

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Thread 'Australia - Serial killer in New South Wales, between 1977 and 2009.'

www.9news.com.au

'Worst serial killer in nation's history' could be to blame for missing NSW women, MP says

www.9news.com.au www.9news.com.au
A NSW politician has claimed the "worst serial killer in Australia's history" may be to blame for dozens of missing or murdered women in the state.
A fresh spotlight is now on the investigations into 67 women who were killed or went missing between 1977 and 2009 on the NSW North Coast.

Former Greens MP and member of NSW legislative council Jeremy Buckingham gave an...
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Australia Thread 'Australia- Jessie Grace Lauder, 80s, sexually assaulted twice (1981 & 1983) by same perp. @ her own home, Newport, *DNA, new initiative*'

Jan 14 2025 rbbm
www.abc.net.au

Fresh plea to help solve cold-case Melbourne sex assaults

Police are renewing their calls for help to find a man who attacked an elderly widow in her Melbourne home twice in two years.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
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Jessie Lauder was aged in her 80s when she was sexually assaulted twice in her own Newport home in 1981 and 1983. (Supplied: Victoria Police)
''Jessie Grace Lauder was sexually assaulted in 1981 and again in 1983 by a man who broke into her Newport home in Melbourne's west.

The elderly woman died in 1993 without the man, who is believed to have been a local, being captured.
With advances in DNA technology, police are narrowing down their search for...
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Victorian man Gerald Francis Ridsdale charged: 72 sex offences dating back to 1961

Victorian man Gerald Francis Ridsdale charged: 72 sex offences dating back to 1961 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community
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During the last hearing he attended, the court was told Ridsdale was in chronic pain and was likely to go into palliative care.

He was not asked to speak during the hearing except for his plea, to which he replied “I’m guilty”.
www.theguardian.com

Gerald Ridsdale, Australia’s most notorious paedophile priest, dies in jail

Child protection group Bravehearts says some may see his death as ‘the end of a dark chapter’ but for survivors, the trauma remains
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

www.abc.net.au

Notorious Ridsdale's death at 90 leaves scores of shattered victims

From 1961 to 1990, the Catholic Church shunted priest Gerald Ridsdale to 16 different parishes across Australia, enabling him to sexually abuse at least 72 children.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
 
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Australia Thread 'Australia- Janie Perrin, 73, S.A., bludgeoned to death & robbed, by unknown number of males, @ home, NSW, 3 Nov., '90, *New initiative, $1 million*'

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Reward of $100,000 to solve murder of Janie Perrin - NSW Police Public Site

www.police.nsw.gov.au www.police.nsw.gov.au
''A $100,000 reward is on offer for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the murder of senior citizen Janie Perrin.

The 73-year-old woman's bludgeoned body was found in her unit in Bourke on 3 November, 1990.

She had been sexually assaulted and murdered some time after 9pm the evening before when she was seen walking into her home.

The killing of this frail old woman was a particularly heinous crime.

A worried neighbour...
 
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Australia Thread 'Australia- Rachelle Childs, 23, car saleswoman, murdered, fingers removed & her body set alight, her car found @ the Bargo Hotel, NSW, 8 June 2001.'

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Reward doubled to $200,000 as investigators renew appeal into the death of Rachelle Childs - NSW Police Public Site

www.police.nsw.gov.au www.police.nsw.gov.au
''Homicide Squad detectives investigating the death of 23-year-old Rachelle Childs on the NSW South Coast 10 years ago are renewing their appeal for information.

Meanwhile, the Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Michael Gallacher, has announced that the $100,000 reward on offer to solve the crime has been doubled to $200,000.

Rachelle Child's partially-burned body was located in a shallow ditch off Crooked River Road, near the town of Gerroa...
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Australia Thread 'Australia- Steavenson River, John Doe, 40s-50s, dark hair, large build, gold Unicorn watch, blk signet ring, inscript; '21.4.71 P.U.C', 25 Dec; '71.'

April 14 2025
www.9news.com.au

This ring could be the key to cracking a 53-year-old cold case

www.9news.com.au www.9news.com.au
'A body found in a river. A 53-year-old mystery. A gold signet ring that could help solve it.
These are just a few of the strange details surrounding a cold case that detectives from Victoria's Alexandra Crime Investigation Unit believe could be solved.
On the afternoon of Christmas Day, 1971, a group of children discovered the body of an unknown man in the Steavenson River, about 60 metres downstream from the Maroondah Highway bridge.'

''Believed to be...
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Australia Thread 'Australia- Victoria, North Point Business Park, John Doe, Caucasian, 25-35, 179cm, 89kg, brn hair/eyes, fatally beaten & stabbed, 1 May 1995.'

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Cold case: Unknown man, Roxburgh Park

Help Victoria Police identify an unknown man who was located deceased in Roxburgh Park in 1995.
www.police.vic.gov.au www.police.vic.gov.au
''It’s a mystery that has plagued Homicide Squad detectives since 1995 – the body of an unidentified man dumped on a cold dirt road in Roxburgh Park.
The man was found lying in long grass in the North Point Business Park, near the Cliffords Road side, on the morning of 1 May 1995.
Two members of the public had been driving on the road, about 1km north of the intersection of the Hume Freeway and Somerton Road, when they saw the body about 10am.
The men subsequently contacted police and detectives from the...
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Thread 'Australia-Woman, 27, hospitalized after female stranger splashed an unknown chemical liquid in her face, Sydney, 14 May 2025, *Hunt for suspect*'

7news.com.au

Woman burned after chemical thrown at face

Police are appealing for public help to find the woman behind the unprovoked attack.
7news.com.au 7news.com.au
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''A mysterious liquid hurled in a shocking street attack has left a woman hospitalised with a chemical burn.

The 27-year-old was at the intersection of Norfolk Rd and Callistemon Cl in northwest Sydney’s North Epping about 6.15pm on Wednesday when she was approached by a woman she didn’t know.

Without warning, the stranger allegedly splashed her with a cup of unknown liquid, hitting her face, clothes and headphones.''...
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Australia Thread 'Australia- Bryan Hodgkinson, 48, taxi driver, fatally stabbed during his overnight shift, Queensland,10 Sep; 1987, *New incentive, DNA,$500K reward*'

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Taxi driver Bryan Hodgkinson with his wife Elaine.Credit:Queensland Police Service
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The taxi driven by Bryan Hodgkinson on the night of his murder.Credit:Queensland Police

William Davis July 2, 2025 rbbm.​

www.smh.com.au

New DNA, a $500k reward and a son desperate for answers

‘What happened? Why it happened? Who did it?’ Stephen Hodgkinson hopes enhanced forensic testing will help reveal who killed his father Bryan nearly 40 years ago.
www.smh.com.au www.smh.com.au
'Taxi driver Bryan Hodgkinson, 48, didn’t return home from an overnight shift in the central Queensland town of Bundaberg on the morning of September 10, 1987.

His body was found 32 kilometres away in Goodwood with severe...
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