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KURNELL SKELETAL REMAINS: Remains of 2 males & 1 female
found in sand dunes- Oct 2007 *Mark Johnson*
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VICTIM ONE: A Caucasian male aged 24-46
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VICTIM TWO: A Caucasian male aged 24-40
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According to news reports, there is a possibility of a third
victim who could possibly be a female however this has not been
confirmed.
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Bones of real cold case
EXCLUSIVE BY MARK MORRI CRIME EDITOR
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 24, 2013 12:00AM
THE hope that bones found at an "underbelly graveyard " belonged
to victims of two of Sydney's greatest crime mysteries have been
dashed - only to become an even greater mystery themselves.
Police have now got DNA profiles of the remains of two, possibly
three, bodies found in the dunes of Kurnell and reveal for the
first time a black wig was found at the crime scene and is part
of the investigation.
"We know positively the bones are of two males, the first a
Caucasian aged 24 to 46," said Detective Superintendent Michael
Willing, Commander of the NSW Homicide Squad.
"The second victim is also a white male, aged 24-40 and there is
a possibility of a third person, which could be female but is
still undetermined."
He said carbon dating putting the bones as being anywhere round
1962 to 1981.
A shin bone was first uncovered by workers at the desalination
plant in October, 2007. A week later, 300m away, ribs and
smaller bones were discovered in sandy scrubland off Sir Joseph
Banks Drive. Further searching unearthed a pelvis and foot
bones.
The discovery sparked a flurry of theories from cops, crooks and
armchair detectives. Missing Kings Cross heiress Juanita
Nielsen's name was bandied about.
Survivors of Sydney's 1980s gang wars wondered if the final
resting place of missing hit man Christopher Dale Flannery had
been found. DNA belonging to relatives of Flannery, who went
missing in 1984, and Juanita Nielsen in 1978, was sought and
sent away for testing.
"Those results have eliminated Flannery or Miss Nielson," said
Detective Superintendent Willing. The DNA was also compared with
missing Sydney prostitute Lynne Woodward, a friend of Sally Anne
Huckstep who was murdered in 1986 after accusing NSW police of
corruption.
Greek businessman Peter Mitros was another possible victim of
the Sydney underworld rumoured to have been buried in the sand
dunes after he vanished from Kings Cross in 1991.
"There was a lot of speculation about these four but they have
all been positively ruled out by DNA," said Det Supt Willing.
With Flannery and Nielsen out of the equation the whispers of
whose "'handywork" it is will throw up a list of potential new
victims among drinkers in some of Sydney's tougher pubs and
inside the cells of Long Bay.
Killer Neddie Smith was known to favour the dunes of Foreshaw
Drive at Botany Bay for disposing of his victims and some
thought the bones at Kurnell meant he had moved further afield.
"I knew they wouldn't have been his. He would have been too lazy
to drive that far," said a retired detective.
Others believe it could be the work of Stan "The Man" Smith who,
despite his low profile, was one of the most prolific underworld
killers in Sydney from the 1960s through to the 1980s.
A Chuppa Chup wrapper found near a sock led early investigators
to place the victims as being around the 1970s when the lollipop
was popular in Australia. "The problem is during the
construction of Kurnell much of the crime scene was contaminated
by landfill, which came from all over Sydney," said Det Supt
Willing.
The case will be briefly mentioned at Glebe Coroner's Court this
Friday. spite of the hurdles confronting investigators, police
believe one day the identity of the remains will be solved.
"DNA is making advances at a rapid rate and I'm confident one
day we will be able to find out who they belong to."
Then the difficult job of finding out how and why they died
begins.
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Re: KURNELL SKELETAL REMAINS: Remains of 2 males & 1 female
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Date: May 12, 2020, 2:16 am
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Jawbone at Kurnell desal site
Article from: Description: Description: The Daily Telegraph
By Kara Lawrence December 12, 2007 12:40pm
A JAWBONE believed to be human has been discovered at the
Kurnell desalination plant work site this morning.
Construction workers noticed the bone, which had been dredged up
from the sand by recent storms at about 11am today.
Police have been contacted about the bones, which follows the
unearthing of several other human bones at the site last month.
Bones previously found include a human shin bone as well as foot
bones in a sock and a pelvis. Those bones have been sent
overseas for carbon testing to New Zealand and to the US for DNA
analysis, and are believed to be less than 50 years old.
It is believed that the bones previously discovered belonged to
two people, one from a man and the other is suspected to be from
a woman.
It is unknown if the jawbone discovered today came from either
of those two bodies.
More human remains discovered - Kurnell
2007-12-12 15:02:27 - NSW Police Media Unit
A human jawbone has been discovered at a Kurnell construction
site today.
Police from Miranda Local Area Command were called to the site
on St Josephs Road after construction workers discovered the
jawbone, believed to be human, at 11am.
A crime scene has been established and the exhibit taken away
for forensic examination.
On Tuesday 2 October 2007, a tibia bone was located in sand
dunes by construction workers. A crime scene was established and
a cadaver dog was used to search the immediate area. No further
bones were located at that time.
On Monday 8 October 2007, several ribs and small bones were
located by police in an area about
300 metres from the original location. A forensic pathologist
and an anthropologist have examined the bones and confirmed that
they are human and unrelated.
Further analysis, including carbon dating and DNA testing, will
be conducted to determine the age
and origin of the bones. Test results are not yet available.
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Texas lab joins effort to solve our cold cases
LES KENNEDY - SMH
July 19, 2009
DNA experts in the United States are providing NSW Police with
new clues on some of the state's most baffling missing persons
cases and unidentified human remains.
The cases include bones from at least two people found in sand
dunes on Sydney's Kurnell peninsula in 2007 and remains located
near Ballina on the north coast.
Unsolved homicide squad police believe the north coast bones,
found at an undisclosed site, may be those of missing
31-year-old Lennox Head mother-of-two Bronwyn Joy Winfield, last
seen at her home in 1993.
Scientists at Orchid Cellmark in Dallas, Texas, have spent the
past two months examining 31 exhibits of bone and tissue
specimens, and a further 15 saliva swabs taken from relatives of
missing persons.
The samples were delivered to them by Detective Sergeant Damian
Loone, of The Rocks station, who has spent the past 12 years
investigating the disappearance and suspected murder of northern
beaches woman Lynette Dawson.
The only possible clue about the fate of the 34-year-old Bayview
mother, who went missing in January 1982, is a pale-pink
cardigan found near a hole that was dug for a swimming pool on
her property.
Detective Sergeant Loone took the cardigan to the US to try to
match Mrs Dawson's DNA with a sample from one of her daughters.
The detective is expected to return to the US in the next month
to reclaim the exhibits and DNA results, which will be screened
against those from relatives of other missing persons.
Saliva swabs taken from Mrs Winfield's daughters will be
compared with DNA from bone fragments found on the north coast
amid renewed inquiries by police in the past three months.
Mrs Winfield, who a coronial inquest declared dead in 2002, was
reported missing by her estranged husband 11 days after she was
last seen at her home.
The US tests could also reveal the sex of at least two people
from three separate sets of bone fragments found in dunes in
2007 during land clearing preparation for the construction of
the Sydney desalination plant at Kurnell.
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Closing in on the killers
Mark Morri, Crime Editor
From: The Daily Telegraph
September 06, 2010 12:00AM
VETERAN homicide investigators will tell you there is no such
thing as an unsolved murder. There are just murders for which
there has not been enough evidence to prove who did it.
"Most detectives believe they know who the killer is, and there
is an old adage, 'you end up speaking to the killer even though
you may not know it within about 48 hours of the murder',"
retired homicide detective Michael McGann said.
Mr McGann said every homicide cop had at least one case which
sticks in their craw - one they could never prove, but knew who
did it.
"Mine was a little five-year-old girl called Renee Aitkin," he
said. "Over a few beers my partner and I discussed the idea of
grabbing him, tying him to tree, putting a gun down his throat
and asking him what he did with Renee's body."
But sanity and reason prevailed instead of justice and Renee's
murder is still considered unsolved. Renee was five when she was
abducted from her Narooma home on the South Coast in February,
1984. Her body has never been found and she is still listed by
NSW police as a missing person.
"My partner and I knew who did it. We needed to find her body,"
Mr McGann said.
Fast forward to 2009 and the horrific mass murder of the five
Lin family members is another example of detectives having a
good idea of the killer but biding their time until the evidence
is there to pounce.
A source within Strike Force Norburn, set up to investigate the
brutal murder of Min and Lily Lin, their sons Henry and Terry
and Mrs Lin's sister Irene, said detectives had always been
confident they knew who was responsible for the killing on July
18 last year, but they had to be strategic.
"You only get one go, it's not something you rush for the sake
of it," the police source said.
Similarly, officers working to solve the execution-style killing
of North Shore businessman Michael McGurk have always been
confident they knew who was behind his murder.
What makes it more difficult for homicide officers is when no
body is ever found. But every time human bones are found, there
is a group of detectives - retired or still serving - who take a
very keen interest in their discovery.
They are the cops who have an unsolved case on their books, and
they hope the bones belong to "their" case'.
"When I hear about bones being found, my ears prick up,"
Detective-Sergeant Damien Loone said.
Thirteen years ago, Sgt Loone was handed the cold case file of
missing Sydney mother Lynette Dawson, 34, who vanished from her
Northern Beaches home on January 9, 1982. "At that stage it was
a missing person's case, and was 15 years old then.
"Even after 28 years, you hope the bones turn up and provide the
last pieces in the jigsaw," Sgt Loone said.
When trail bike riders stumbled across a human skeleton in the
Belanglo State Forest last Sunday, cold case detectives across
NSW braced for the possibility it could be the last piece of the
puzzle and solve their case.
"You never know. Lynette's sibling's DNA is on a data base and
if they believe these bones are of a female aged 30 to 40 it's a
possibility," Sgt Loone said.
Frustration of not being able to get the killer leads to
fantasies of breaking the case and creative "ways" of getting
the evidence.
Another "bones" case still being investigated by police is the
remains of a male and female unearthed by workmen clearing land
for the desalination plant at Kurnell about three years ago.
A shin bone was found by the workers in October, 2007, and days
later, about 300m away, ribs and other smaller bones were found
in sandy scrubland off Sir Joseph Banks Drive. Then, a pelvis
and foot bones, eerily still wearing a sock, were found.
Forensic tests carried out revealed the bones belonged to two
people who died less than 50 years ago.
Just as the bones in Belanglo raised the spectre of a new- found
victim of Ivan Milat, the discovery at Kurnell had many
speculating they could be the victims of convicted killer Arthur
"Neddy" Smith.
Smith was known to favour the dunes south of Sydney as a dumping
ground for murders he committed in the '70s and '80s of unwanted
underworld associates. Rubbish found with some of the bones
indicates they were probably from some time after the 1970s but
tests offer no clue to whether the pair were murdered, died
accidentally, or even died together.
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Bones of real cold case
EXCLUSIVE BY MARK MORRI CRIME EDITOR
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 24, 2013 12:00AM
THE hope that bones found at an "underbelly graveyard " belonged
to victims of two of Sydney's greatest crime mysteries have been
dashed - only to become an even greater mystery themselves.
Police have now got DNA profiles of the remains of two, possibly
three, bodies found in the dunes of Kurnell and reveal for the
first time a black wig was found at the crime scene and is part
of the investigation.
"We know positively the bones are of two males, the first a
Caucasian aged 24 to 46," said Detective Superintendent Michael
Willing, Commander of the NSW Homicide Squad.
"The second victim is also a white male, aged 24-40 and there is
a possibility of a third person, which could be female but is
still undetermined."He said carbon dating putting the bones as
being anywhere round 1962 to 1981.[/color]
A shin bone was first uncovered by workers at the desalination
plant in October, 2007. A week later, 300m away, ribs and
smaller bones were discovered in sandy scrubland off Sir Joseph
Banks Drive. Further searching unearthed a pelvis and foot
bones.
The discovery sparked a flurry of theories from cops, crooks and
armchair detectives. Missing Kings Cross heiress Juanita
Nielsen's name was bandied about.
Survivors of Sydney's 1980s gang wars wondered if the final
resting place of missing hit man Christopher Dale Flannery had
been found. DNA belonging to relatives of Flannery, who went
missing in 1984, and Juanita Nielsen in 1978, was sought and
sent away for testing.
"Those results have eliminated Flannery or Miss Nielson," said
Detective Superintendent Willing. The DNA was also compared with
missing Sydney prostitute Lynne Woodward, a friend of Sally Anne
Huckstep who was murdered in 1986 after accusing NSW police of
corruption.
Greek businessman Peter Mitros was another possible victim of
the Sydney underworld rumoured to have been buried in the sand
dunes after he vanished from Kings Cross in 1991.
"There was a lot of speculation about these four but they have
all been positively ruled out by DNA," said Det Supt Willing.
With Flannery and Nielsen out of the equation the whispers of
whose "'handywork" it is will throw up a list of potential new
victims among drinkers in some of Sydney's tougher pubs and
inside the cells of Long Bay.
Killer Neddie Smith was known to favour the dunes of Foreshaw
Drive at Botany Bay for disposing of his victims and some
thought the bones at Kurnell meant he had moved further afield.
"I knew they wouldn't have been his. He would have been too lazy
to drive that far," said a retired detective.
Others believe it could be the work of Stan "The Man" Smith who,
despite his low profile, was one of the most prolific underworld
killers in Sydney from the 1960s through to the 1980s.
A Chuppa Chup wrapper found near a sock led early investigators
to place the victims as being around the 1970s when the lollipop
was popular in Australia. "The problem is during the
construction of Kurnell much of the crime scene was contaminated
by landfill, which came from all over Sydney," said Det Supt
Willing.
The case will be briefly mentioned at Glebe Coroner's Court this
Friday. spite of the hurdles confronting investigators, police
believe one day the identity of the remains will be solved.
"DNA is making advances at a rapid rate and I'm confident one
day we will be able to find out who they belong to."
Then the difficult job of finding out how and why they died
begins.[/color]
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Kurnell dunes bones testing rules out likely suspects
Emma Partridge
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SEVERAL conspiracy theories about human bones found at Kurnell
in 2007 have been laid to rest after the results of DNA testing.
Many speculated the bones may have belonged to missing hitman
Christopher Dale Flannery, prostitute Lynn Woodward, Kings Cross
identity Juanita Nielsen or Greek businessman Peter Mitros.
But NSW Police homicide Detective Inspector Angelo Memmolo said
the DNA results from two, possibly three sets of bones ruled out
any chance of the bones belonging to these four.
"It's very hard to have a theory without a victim," Detective
Inspector Memmolo said.
"There has been lots of talk about Peter Mitros, Woodward,
Flannery and Juanita Nielsen and they have come up zero," he
said.
"We have tested a number ofpeople that we believe may have had a
family member that was a victim but at this stage we've come up
with nothing."
More than a dozen people have been tested and police would
continue to search for a match.
Workers first unearthed a shin bone on the desalination plant
construction site in October 2007.
This led to a larger search that uncovered jawbone, some teeth,
a pelvis and foot bones inside a sock off Sir Joseph Banks
Drive.
Only recently police revealed a black wig was also found at the
crime scene in the dunes.
Detective Inspector Memmolo said the DNA profile of some bones
were so similar it was impossible to tell if they belonged to
the same person or a third victim.
"It's more than likely two but it's possibly three, that's all
we can say," he said.
Carbon dating has revealed two sets of bones belonged to men
aged between 24 and 46, height 170cm to 183cm. They could have
been killed somewhere between 1962 and 1981.
Some of the bones were sent to the US for testing but a lot of
testing was done in Victoria.
Detective Inspector Memmolo said it was hard for police to say
with certainty whether one or two offenders were responsible for
the deaths.
"We can't say that it was just one offender because we don't
know who the victims are," he said. "It's an interesting one
because people have been buried out there and there was a whole
lot of theories out there in the community about who they could
be."
He said police had been back to the site many times since the
bones were unearthed but it was hard to tell if there were more
bones. There was no evidence found to suggest there was.
"The problem is that it is a landfill site so material has been
moved all over the place and it's a massive area," he said.
Inspector Memmolo said all police could do was continue to test
families of victims they believe may have been buried out there.
The mystery continues.
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Rule outs
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Christopher Dale Flannery, a Hitman missing since May 9, 1985
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Juanita Nielsen missing since 4 July 1975 from Kings Cross,
Sydney
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Lyn Woodward missing since 1981 from Sydney
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Peter Mitros missing from Kings Cross since 1991
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Human remains discovered in 2007 confirmed as cocaine dealer,
missing since 1986
Human remains discovered in Sydney's south in 2007 have been
formally identified as those of missing cocaine dealer and
former male model Mark Johnston.
Homicide detectives revealed the breakthrough 34 years after Mr
Johnston was last seen farewelling friends at a Paddington pub,
and more than 20 years since a coronial inquest found he had
died in 1986.
Once the face of KFC and Ford Lasers on television commercials
around Australia, Mr Johnston was also a professional punter, a
keen surfer and a traveller.
He lived life in the fast lane, dealing in cocaine and moving
between his unit at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast and the homes
of friends in Sydney, regularly drinking at pubs in Sydney's
east.
Mr Johnston was 36 when he was last seen by friends leaving the
Bellevue Hotel on Hargrave Street, Paddington, about 7pm on
September 1, 1986.
Investigators believe he then attended a home in Dover Heights,
however he was never seen or heard from again.
No one has ever been charged in connection with his death.
In 2007 human remains were found at Kurnell in Sydney's south
and seized for forensic examination, however they could not be
identified.
Technological advancements since then led to further examination
in 2019, which identified the bones as belonging to Mr Johnston.
Last month, the NSW state coroner returned findings that the
bones had been formally identified. They will now be returned to
Mr Johnston's family, who have been notified.
On the night he was last seen leaving the hotel, Mr Johnston was
said to have been headed to an 8pm meeting he had arranged at
his solicitor's house to collect $60,000 in cash, the Herald has
previously reported.
According to detectives at the time, the money was believed to
be "ill-gotten gains from drug dealing", which Mr Johnston had
deposited with his solicitor before an overseas trip in May.
The Herald has previously reported Mr Johnston's solicitor told
police he paid the drug dealer the $60,000 when he arrived later
that evening, however no receipt was issued as proof.
That night Johnston had planned to meet a female friend for
dinner, however he failed to show up. His clothes, his passport
and a wallet containing $2000 were left at a friend's house in
Rose Bay where he was staying.
A week later his rented yellow Commodore was found parked in
Maroubra. There was no damage to the vehicle or signs of a
struggle. Inside the glovebox were two one-ounce bags of
cocaine, while half a kilogram of cocaine was found in the boot.
"A very clean job," was how homicide detectives described it to
the Herald at the time, arguing there was no motive for Mr
Johnston to stage his own disappearance.
The present Homicide Squad has since established strike force
Brompton to reinvestigate the circumstances surrounding Mr
Johnston's death.
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