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 […]
Category: Unsolved
Priority Cold Case of Janine Vaughan Gets a New Review Team – Will they find evidence of a police killer or an unknown predator?
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’s Mysterious Disappearance
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 […]
Crucified body of NSW’s ‘Rack Man’ identified after 25 years – case is referred to Cold Case Homicide Squad
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 […]