Remember their faces: Women killed in Australia

Nurse found guilty of Toyah Cordingley’s beach murder after second trial

Police believed Rajwinder Singh flew to India soon after Cordingley’s body was found, leaving his wife and children behind in northern Queensland.

New targeted police search for Samantha Murphy

Police are undertaking a “targeted search” for the missing mum, nearly two years after her disappearance.

• Isabel McMillan

Accused Easey Street killer to stand trial for 1977 double murder

Perry Kouroumblis has pleaded not guilty to the murders of housemates Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett in Collingwood almost 50 years ago.

• Erin Pearson

‘I had spoken to him before’: Detective recalls his chance meeting with accused Easey Street killer

Retired homicide detective Ron Iddles has recounted to a court the moment he pulled over and searched the car of the teenager who would later be charged with double homicide.

• Erin Pearson

Man who beat his partner and left her to die storms out after learning he will stand trial

A Melbourne magistrate in a virtual hearing ordered John Torney to stand trial for his role in Emma Bates’ death.

• Melissa Cunningham

Ballarat man sentenced to 28 years’ jail for murder of Hannah McGuire

A judge said Lachlan Young had committed a brutal and “extreme act of domestic violence” when he strangled his former partner and burned her body in a ute.

• Melissa Cunningham

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Molly Ticehurst’s heartbreaking text revealed after killer finally confesses

Daniel Billings killed Ticehurst while on bail for serious alleged attacks on the young mother, who lived in fear and foresaw her own murder.

• Sally Rawsthorne, Perry Duffin and Stephanie Gardiner

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‘This happened right in front of a little girl’: Teen who killed Vyleen White gets 16 years behind bars

The chief justice described the fatal stabbing of the 70-year-old in a shopping centre car park as horrendous. The teenager did not stop to check on his victim, she said, but instead moved to steal her car.

• Cloe Read

Seven years’ jail for man who killed Annette Brennan and stuffed her body in a bin

Stephen Fleming killed Brennan and put her body in a bin before cleaning the inside of their share house to destroy evidence and moving into another home days later.

• Erin Pearson

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‘He stabbed her, he didn’t hesitate’: Killer didn’t care which car he took, court told

A young girl who saw a Queensland woman fatally stabbed during a carjacking and rushed to get help has recalled the devastating impact on her life.

• Cloe Read

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Texts expose Tatiana’s inner turmoil in weeks before domestic violence murder

Messages reveal the manipulative and controlling tactics Danny Zayat used to keep Tatiana Dokhotaru entangled in his web of abuse in the lead up to her murder.

• Clare Sibthorpe

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‘We owe it to people like Jessica’: Victoria considers decriminalising begging after brutal killing

Jessica Geddes’ abusive partner forced her to beg for food and money before killing her, a coroner found.

• Rachel Eddie

‘Is she dead?’: A mum’s final moments before her body was found in the river

CCTV images released for the first time show a man, believed to be Crystal Beale’s alleged killer, walking the streets of Brisbane’s West End with an unknown item.

• Cloe Read

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‘Like putting together broken glass’: How Tatiana’s fairytale descended into fatal violence

Tatiana Dokhotaru died inside her 22nd-floor Sydney apartment in 2023. Her ex-partner, Danny Zayat, has been found guilty of her murder.

• Clare Sibthorpe

Husband charged with murder in 34-year-old cold case mystery

Melinda Freeman was bashed to death inside her Whittlesea home in 1991 while her husband said he was out playing cards.

• Angus Delaney and Isabel McMillan

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Theresa’s family has spent 20 years looking for answers. Now police are offering $1m to find her killer

More than two decades after the 43-year-old mother was murdered, detectives are renewing their efforts to deliver justice.

• Riley Walter

Judge calls for minute’s silence for murdered woman Hannah McGuire at killer’s hearing

The Ballarat court was told Hannah McGuire’s former boyfriend Lachlan Young was a cold, calculated and remorseless killer.

• Melissa Cunningham

Man charged with murder after woman allegedly stabbed minutes before help arrived in Broome

Police said they were called to the home on Fredrick Street in Broome’s town centre just before 8pm on Friday night, responding to reports a woman had been seriously injured.

• Hannah Murphy

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Revealed: Alleged Thi Kim Tran contract killers accused of previous murder

Thi Kim Tran, 45, was kidnapped in front of children, shot dead and her body dumped in a burning car. Her alleged killers are facing murder charges in a separate case.

• Angus Dalton, Amber Schultz and Riley Walter

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Australian man revealed as alleged head of Asian crime gang that ordered Sydney woman’s kidnap and murder

The syndicate run by Asia-based expat Daniel Badger is alleged to be one of the biggest manufacturers and distributors of methamphetamine in Australia.

• Riley Walter

‘My ex is trying to kill me’: The 89-second call for help moments before alleged murder

Tatiana Dokhotaru allegedly made a desperate plea for help moments before Danny Zayat took her phone off her, threw it off her apartment balcony and killed her, a court has heard.

• Clare Sibthorpe

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Partner’s eleventh hour plea after Perth mum bashed with towel rail

Peter Damjanovic, 39, was charged with murder after his girlfriend Tiffany Woodley was found with ‘horrific and confronting’ injuries.

• Rebecca Peppiatt

Man charged following woman’s death in Melbourne’s north

Police said the 44-year-old Epping woman had been seriously assaulted.

• Hannah Hammoud

Pair charged over Isla Bell’s death push for their charges to be dropped

Defence teams say there is not enough evidence to send Marat Ganiev and Eyal Yaffe to trial over their alleged roles in the killing of the Brunswick teen and the disposal of her body.

• Erin Pearson

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Accused killer to stand trial over wife’s tractor slasher death

Yadwinder Singh, 45, has been ordered to stand trial over the death of his wife, Amarjit Kaur Sardar, 41, whose body was found with 25 injuries at a property south of Brisbane last year.

• Cloe Read

Northern Rivers butcher charged with murdering girlfriend

The Mullumbimby man, 29, was charged with a domestic violence homicide at the unit he shared with his 23-year-old girlfriend.

• Sally Rawsthorne

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Daughter’s shock as her father linked to mother’s stabbing

Meghana’s mother Prabha was walking in Parramatta, talking on the phone to her husband, when she was attacked and stabbed. Now police have named him as the main person of interest.

• Dimity Clancey and Natalie Clancy

Hot water theory central to appeal over Perth man’s conviction for killing mother

Andre Rebelo’s lawyers claim an unchallenged comment made by his younger brother during his trial proves he couldn’t have murdered his mother.

• Heather McNeill

Police shot man nine times while he strangled his sister

Justin Filardo had partially severed his sister’s arm and was strangling her when police discharged Tasers and then a gun to save her.

• Erin Pearson

Family home when Brisbane nurse Carra Luke was allegedly murdered

Luke was allegedly stabbed to death while her family was at home, police say. Her husband has been charged with murder.

• William Davis

Inside the world of the occult podcaster charged with his fiancée’s murder

Tobias Nuttall’s co-host on the Waking World podcast has told listeners his friend was a bit “eccentric”, but the news of his murder charge came as a shock.

• Hannah Murphy

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‘She didn’t know anyone’: Anu’s isolated Australian life before alleged murder

Anu Kumar has been identified as the woman allegedly murdered in a Victorian border town while her children were home.

• Cassandra Morgan

Athena was five months pregnant when she was killed. She never got to live the life she always wanted

Athena Georgopoulos and her partner Andrew Gunn have been identified as the couple found dead in Mount Waverley on Monday night.

• Cassandra Morgan