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.
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 […]
Sarah MacDiarmid was a 23-year-old Scottish-Australian woman when she disappeared from a railway station carpark after a game of tennis with her friends on the evening of 11 July 1990. Although no trace of her body has ever found she is presumed murdered, and after 28 years it seems unlikely that this mysterious cold case […]
Where? Half a mile east of the mouth of Cowan Waters on Hawkesbury River, Sydney. Photo: View of Hawkesbury River, where the remains were found. Finding ‘Rack Man’ August 11, 1994 Mark Peterson was out fishing when he felt a sharp, heavy tug. Suspecting that he had caught a giant squid he starting dragging in […]