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Category: Homicide

A Sandy Grave

The murders of Danny Wasley and Mark Banks

Posted: 23rd May 2026

Detective Sergeant Lance Chaffey (Retired), NSW Police Force

Category: Homicide
Tags: Cannabis, Grave, Newcastle, Sand dunes, Petrol, .22 calibre, Mark Banks, Towels, Danny Wasley, Lance Chaffey, Stockton Bight, Homicide, Lake Macquarie, Illicit drugs, Charlestown Police Station, Murder, Mount Hutton, cash, Warners Bay, fire, Kevin Naismith, Police Rescue, Garage, NSWPF, Tony Hetherington, Arson, Alan Faulkner, Forensics, Windale

What happened to Harmony?

Posted: 23rd May 2026

Category: Homicide
Tags: Strike Force Behl, Joe Doueihi, Free To Read, NSWPF, Reward, Port Macquarie, Harmony Bryant, Hyundai Excel, Bonny Hills, Cliff, Mid Pacific Caravan Park

6 Minutes of Terror

The Bondi Junction Massacre

Posted: 1st March 2026

Detective Chief Inspector Andrew Marks APM and Simon Bouda AM

Category: Homicide
Tags: Ka-bar, Megan Duckworth, Maroubra Beach, James Gunther, Ashlee Good, Danielle Kirchen, Faraz Tahir, Sarah Kwak, Pikria Darchia, Gareth Michael, Yixuan Cheng, Lauren Murden, Jade Young, Adam Taylor, NSWPF, Dawn Singleton, Shannon Kinsella, Simon Bouda, 6 Minutes of Terror, Andrew Brady, Lisa Myers, Peggy Dwyer, Bronwyn Lansley, Andrew Marks, Sophie Callen, Scentre Group, Joel Cauchi, Paul Mangan, Falcon Manpower Solutions, Westfield, James Bale, Amy Scott, Kelly Barby, Bondi Junction Massacre, Craig Burney, Teresa O'Sullivan, Brendon Coppola

Bundaberg Taxi Driver

Posted: 1st March 2026

Category: Homicide
Tags: Taxi driver, Bryan Hodgkinson, Elaine Hodgkinson, Bundaberg, Targo, Burnett Street, Tara Kentwell, Homicide, Cold Case Investigation Team, Free To Read, Coronial, Queensland, QPS, Missing Person, unsolved, CBD, Crime Stoppers

Everyone Matters or No One Matters

The Murder of Jodie Larcombe

Posted: 1st December 2025

Janet Fife-Yeomans and Peter Lennon APM

Category: Homicide
Tags: No Bill, Pooncarie, Daryl Suckling, Daryl Francis Suckling, Major Crime Squad, LandCruiser, Sam Murray, Homicide, Bob Collins, Mick McGann, Operation Ethel, NSWPF, ATM, DPP, Janet Fife-Yeomans, Jodie Larcombe, Peter Lennon, Everyone Matters or No One Matters

Reward for Frank Newbery’s Murder

Posted: 1st September 2025

Category: Homicide
Tags: NSWPF, Reward, Frank Newbery, Strike Force Rynan, Cooks Hill, Frank's Ham & Beef, Mark Buscombe

Warwick v Warwick

The Hunt for the Family Law Court Bomber

Posted: 25th May 2025

Janet Fife-Yeomans

Category: Homicide
Tags: Forensics, Tactical Operations Unit, Helen Gee, Jehovah's Witness, Judge, TOU, Fuse, Verbena Avenue, Ballistics, New South Wales Fire Brigades, Royal North Shore Hospital, Robert Barnes, Liverpool, Andrea Blanchard, David Ransome, Diamond alarm clock, Bomb squad, Trudi Warwick, Greenwich, Joint Bomb Task Force, IED, Helensburgh, Raymond Watson, JBTF, improvised explosive device, .22 calibre rifle, Pearl Watson, Divorce, Homicide, Dave Hudson, Family Court, Fairfield, Usolved Homicide Unit, AFP, Parramatta, David Opas, Northmead, Pam Young, Murder, Car bomb, Kristin Opas, Peter Tall, Carpet, Australian Federal Police, Nick Kaldas, Woollahra, Holden Torana, Type O blood, NSWPF, Mathieu Russell, Casula, Jesse Sheather, Milperra, Cold case, Janet Fife-Yeomans, Stephen Blanchard, Molanite, Kingdom Hall, DNA, Family Law Court bombings, Revesby Workers Club, Detonator, Peter Garling, Gaol, Leonard Warwick, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Garry Watts, Life sentence, bomb, Matt Heffernan, Richard Gee, Graham Wykes

No End to the Sorrow

Posted: 25th May 2025

Detective Inspector Tim Clark

Category: Homicide
Tags: Extradition, Dimitrijevic, Justin Milne, Engagement ring, Camera, Modbury, Jewellery, Adelaide Exchange Jewellers, Leeton, Justice Robert Hulme, Griffith, Accessory, Homicide, Mt Barker, NSW, Vincent Stanford, Stephanie Scott, Marcus Stanford, South Australia, Marc Baker, Tim Clark, Shearer, SAPOL, Cahalan, NSWPF, Smith, Matthews, Van Donderen, Long, Oakes

Hot Weather, Hot Liquor, Hot Temper

Posted: 1st March 2025

Category: Homicide
Tags: Toxicology, post-mortem, Elizabeth South, James King, Griffiths Street, Ketheeswaran Sivaperuman, Satheeswaran Suppiah, Homicide, Vodka, Murder, Biratheev, SAPOL, Hema, Carl Whitaker, DIBP, knife, Assylum Seeker, Immigration, Hot Weather, CIB, Liquor, Sri Lanka, Temperature, Stabbing

Murder in Cowra

APJ Unsolved

Posted: 1st March 2025

Category: Homicide
Tags: Geoff Kendall, NSWPF, unsolved, Behavioural science, Reward, Cowra, Georgina Whatmore, Catherine Holmes, Strike Force Alister, David Booth

Until Death do us Part

The Tragic Disappearance of Ruth Ridley

Posted: 1st December 2024

Detective Leading Senior Constable Andrew Leonard

Category: Homicide
Tags: Domestic violence, Pajero, post-mortem, CCTV, Wodonga, Centrelink, VRA, Tallangatta, Medicare, inquest, Steven Ridley, 4WD, Coroner, MARAM, Air wing, Bushfire, Albury, Talmalmo, Border, Gympie, Fishing, Homicide, State Emergency Service, Jingellic, Cain, Coronial, SES, Adam Niksic, Murder, Ruth Ridley, FVIU, Autopsy, Andrew Leonard, Jayco caravan, VICPOL, Murray River, Neil's Bend, Suicide, Tumbarumba, Tintaldra, QPS, Port Macquarie, Wymah Ferry, family violence, Garry Ridley, DVO, NSWPF, Pikes Dam, Petrol station

Where is Melissa Brown?

Posted: 1st December 2024

Category: Homicide
Tags: SA, Missing Person, Adelaide, Reward, Melissa Brown, Trussell, Rosemary, Caravan

Fingerprints Catch a Strangler

Posted: 1st September 2024

Senior Constable Barry Fay

Category: Homicide
Tags: Sydney, Scientific, Escape, Strangulation, Fingerprints Catch a Strangler, Bruce Douglas Connell, Rooty Hill, Homicide, Ella Avis Sullivan, Murder, TAB, Forensic, Holden Station Wagon, Queensland, Norma Sasse, New South Wales, Blacktown, Barry Fay, QPS, NSWPF

Beachside Murder

Posted: 1st September 2024

Category: Homicide
Tags: Stabbed, Crime Stoppers, Homicide, Murder, Tasmania, TASPOL, unsolved, Reward, Victoria Cafasso, Freshwater Creek, Beaumaris Beach

The Pizza Hut Heist

Posted: 24th May 2024

Simon Bouda AM

Category: Homicide
Tags: Balaclava, Jannali, Enough is enough, Goulburn gaol, Karl Kramer, Central court, Homicide, Murder, NSWPF, Simon Bouda, Pizza Hut, Ken Marslew, Michael Marslew, Andrew Kramer, Vincent Piller

The Janine Vaughan Mystery

APJ Unsolved

Posted: 1st March 2024

Category: Homicide
Tags: Homicide, Bathurst, NSWP, Missing Person, Unsolved crime, Janine Vaughan, Strkeforce Toko II, Reward

They Walk Amongst Us

Posted: 15th January 2024

Detective Senior Sergeant (rtd) C.B. ‘Barry’ Fay

Category: Homicide
Tags: Fingerprints, Central Mangrove, Morisset, Scientific, Wingham, Schizophrenia, Kings Cross, Ellenborough Falls, Parramatta, Swansea, Caves Beach, Wisemans Ferry, SWOS, Mawson Hotel, Newcastle, Belmont Hospital, Holden, Stitches, Homicide, Wickham, Tow truck, Bondi, Finger, Ronald Beggs, siege, Baulkham Hills, Paul Hunt, Children, John Cribbs, Bernathy, Barry Fay, Kingswood, Special Weapons Operations Squad, NSWPF, Petrol, Norm Maroney, shotgun, Car, Mike Hagen, knife, Stab, Garry Roberts, Sydney, Suitcase, Maitland Gaol

Cold Case Homicide

A Western Australia Perspective

Posted: 1st September 2023

Quentin Flatman APM, Allyson Beaton and Sally Coombes

Category: Homicide
Tags: Allyson Beaton, Sally Coombes, investigations, Murder, Western Australia, WAPOL, Forensics, Perth, Media, Cold case homicide, Quentin Flatman

Cold Blooded Murder

Posted: 1st June 2023

Detective Sergeant Tim Briggs and Detective Sergeant Brent Fletcher

Category: Homicide
Tags: Tim Briggs, Emu, Brent Fletcher, Mark Harrison, Strike Force Amias, Allecha Boyd, Strike Force Bruchhauser, Lester State Forest, Allecha Suzette Boyd, Homicide, Samuel Shephard, Murder, The Farmer, VICPOL, Coolamon, Goulburn, Borambola, Shooting, Hume, NSWPF, Tracey King, ICE, Holden Statesman, Proceeds of crime, Katie Barnett, Wagga Wagga, Anthony Hagan

Kitching’s War

Posted: 1st June 2023

Senior Constable Ash Bold

Category: Homicide
Tags: Prisoner of War, POW, Lilyfield, Robert Murphy, Camperdown, Barbara Edith Kitching, WW2, Homicide, Malaya, Murder, Harrington & Richardson revolver, Shooting, Hyde Park, NSWPF, Changi, Ash Bold, Jane Boston, Sydney, Bronwyn Evans, Manslaughter, Singapore, Reg Kitching

Total and Utter Evil

Posted: 1st June 2023

Detective Sergeant Tony Harwood

Category: Homicide
Tags: Mathew Tissel, Rod Oldfield, Jeff Sear, Brad Lawrence, Eaglehawk Road, Harley Hicks, Ashley Hicks, Murder, Tom Harper, VICPOL, Aiden Kirby, Tony Harwood, Josh Hicks, Long Gully, Xavier, Bendigo, Scott Ellis, Homicide Squad, Wayne Kohlmann, Mick Hanna, Kate Outteridge, Casey Veal, Jacki Lee, Zayden Veal-Whitting

Web of Lies

Posted: 25th February 2023

Detective Sergeants Dario Goriup and Brett Long

Category: Homicide
Tags: Headless torso, Beach towel, Operation Lima Sea, Dermestid beetles, Toxicology, Saw, Ozito, Homicide, QPS, Forensics, Web of Lies, Dario Goriup, Brett Long, Lindy Williams, George Gerbic, Cedar Pocket

Good Over Evil

Posted: 25th February 2023

Martha Jabour OAM

Category: Homicide
Tags: Anita Cobby, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Gary Raymond, Jeff Sahyoun, NSW, NSWPF, Ebony Simpson, Grace's Place, Homicide Victims' Support Group, HVSG, Martha Jabour, Doonside, Grace Lynch

Ebony: 30 Years On

Posted: 27th December 2022

Simon Bouda

Category: Homicide
Tags: Craig Price, Peter Simpson, Andrew Garforth, Homicide, Murder, Sexual assault, rape, NSWPF, Ebony Simpson, Police Rescue Squad, Simon Bouda, Bill Morris

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