Australian True Crime & Unsolved Mysteries is a website devoted to gathering information and evidence on current mysterious cold cases for amateur detectives to look over and potentially solve. *WARNING* this site contains crime scene photos and evidence that may be distressing to some viewers.
Australian serial killer Ivan Milat died, aged 74, at 4:07am 27th October 2019, while undergoing chemotherapy in the Long Bay Jail’s hospital wing . Milat had been sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences on 27 July 1996 after the bodies of seven missing people (aged 19-22) were discovered partially buried in the Belanglo State Forest. […]
Toyah Cordingley was a 24-year-old animal-loving pharmacy assistant. Between 12-1pm on Sunday October 21st, 2018 Cordingley was shopping at Rusty’s Markets – a popular fresh fruit and veg market in Cairns. She returned home briefly before heading out to walk her boyfriend’s dog, Jersey – who was described as a ‘larger than average’ dog. At […]
On September 1, 1934, just outside Albury on the NSW boarder with Victoria, the burnt copse of a young woman was found stuffed into a culvert under the road. Photo: Representation of where the body was found. The medical examiner found that the body had been placed into a hessian bag, a towel had been […]
17-year-old Angela Mealing disappeared after leaving a Cairns party on April 2, 2000. Mealing was not known for this type of behaviour and foul play was suspected due to a bank cheque that had been deposited into her bank account remaining untouched in the days following her disappearance. Photo: This single small photo is the […]
Back in 2011 Queensland’s cold case unit revealed that they were reviewing the 1993 disappearance of Leslie Ralph Ball from Townsville after new information was passed on from interstate. It has now been 25 years since the disappearance, there have been no charges, and almost no information has been made public. Interestingly, due to massive […]
Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre: At 2am on March 8, 1973 the worst case of mass killing in Australian history – until the Port Arthur massacre decades later – took place in a nightclub in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. 15 victims were killed when two 23-litre barrels of petrol were ignited in the foyer of a […]
Disappearance and Investigation: September 2014, 3 year-old William Tyrrell was taken out of childcare for a ‘surprise’ visit to his grandmother’s house. The family packed up the car and made the three hour drive north to Banaroon Drive in Kendall. On the morning of 12 September the father left to find better signal for his […]
Spear Creek Triple Homicide: At 6.55pm on 24 October 1978 the bodies of Karen Edwards, Gordon Twaddle and Timothy Thomson were found by a couple walking their greyhounds. The three had all been shot in the head at close range by a .22 calibre rifle, and were stripped of identification – with their pockets turned […]
Anthony ‘Tony’ Jones was a 20-year-old Perth man that was on a 6 month backpacking trip around Australia in 1982. On 3 November, Jones phoned his family and girlfriend from a phone-box in Rosslea, Townsville where he had told them of his plan to hitchhike down to Mount Isa – where he was going to […]
31 year-old Janine Vaughan had been out drinking at the Ox Hotel in Bathurst, New South Wales, with her friends the evening of 6 December 2001. In the early hours the three had headed to the Tavern Nightclub and left around 4am on 7 December. Walking up Keppel Street Vaughan was about 40 metres ahead […]