Australia Australia - Haroula Kipouridou, 25, singer, bashed, strangled & left semi-naked on floor of a jammed lift, Richmond, 3 July, 1981 *Reward, $1Million*.

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By Eleanor Wilson Feb 22, 2026 rbbm

Police offer $1M reward to solve 1981 cold case sex assault and murder

The 25-year-old was engaged and working as a singer at a Greek Tavern on Gertrude Street in Fitzroy at the ...

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'A rare $1 million reward is being offered to help solve the 1981 cold case sex assault and murder of a 25-year-old Melbourne woman.
Haroula Kipouridou's body was discovered in a jammed lift about 2.30am on July 3, 1981, about 30 minutes after work friends dropped her to her mother's home in Richmond's commission flats.
Detective acting Sergeant Leigh Prados said the young singer had been bashed, strangled and left on the floor semi-naked.'

Haroula Kipouridou was working as a singer at a Greek tavern at the time of her murder. (Nine)
"She had been violently attacked – whoever did this did it with a high level of brutality," Prados said today''.

'Several suspects have been interviewed and police are not ruling out links to other similar crimes of the era.'

 

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A $1 million reward is being offered to help solve the 1981 cold case sexual assault and murder of a 25-year-old Melbourne woman.

 

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Massive reward for tip-offs in brutal murder cold case

Police hope a $1 million reward for information about the brutal murder of a young hotel singer more than four decades ago will lead to tip-offs.

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''Haroula Kipouridou was last seen alive in the early hours of July 3, 1981, after a shift at a hotel in Fitzroy in inner-north Melbourne where she worked as a singer.'

'Two associates had given the 25-year-old Richmond woman a lift home to a housing tower on Elizabeth Street after work''
They dropped her off in front of the building about 2am and did not see anything suspicious at the time'.

Police deemed several people potential suspects over Ms Kipouridou's death but no one was charged. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

"Haroula's death was nothing short of brutal," Detective Inspector Dean Thomas says. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)