Australian True Crime & Unsolved Mysteries
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.
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 […]