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 […]
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The Tragic Abduction of William Tyrrell – 2019 Coronial Inquest May Hold Answers
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 […]
The Mysterious Disappearance of Tony Jones
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 […]
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 […]