16case filesUpdated Jul 14, 2026
Casepin holds 16 case files in Melbourne. By legal status, 2 marked unsolved, 1 marked cold, 1 marked ongoing, 11 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
Credit: MelburnianCC BY 2.5SourceSOLVEDListenMenzies Building, Monash University, Clayton campus · 2002
On 21 October 2002, a 36-year-old commerce student opened fire in a Monash University tutorial room in Melbourne, killing students William Wu and Steven Chan and wounding five others before being restrained by the lecturer and students in the room.
SOLVEDListenMelbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1998
A series of at least 36 murders of underworld figures in Melbourne, Australia, between January 1998 and August 2010, driven by rival criminal factions fighting for control of drug trafficking and related rackets.
SOLVEDListenRussell Street Police Complex, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1986
A car bomb exploded outside Victoria Police headquarters on Russell Street, Melbourne, on 27 March 1986, killing Constable Angela Rose Taylor and injuring 22 others. Stanley Taylor and Craig Minogue were later convicted of murder over the attack.
UNSOLVEDListenWalsh Street, South Yarra, Melbourne · 1988
Two young Victoria Police constables, Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre, were ambushed and killed while investigating an abandoned car on Walsh Street, South Yarra, in the early hours of 12 October 1988. Four men charged with their murders were later acquitted; the case remains formally unresolved.
Credit: No machine-readable author provided. Dysprosia~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright…Editorial useSourceSOLVEDListenCorner of Flinders Street and Elizabeth Street, Melbourne · 2017
On 21 December 2017, Saeed Noori deliberately drove a car into pedestrians at the corner of Flinders and Elizabeth Streets in Melbourne, killing one man and injuring eighteen others. Noori later pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
SOLVEDListenCorner of William Street and Flinders Lane, Melbourne CBD, Australia · 2007
On 18 June 2007, Christopher Wayne Hudson shot three people at the corner of William Street and Flinders Lane in Melbourne's CBD, killing solicitor Brendan Keilar and wounding Kara Douglas and Paul de Waard, who had intervened during a street assault. Hudson later pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
COLDListenNorth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1975
Julie Garciacelay, a 19-year-old American woman living in North Melbourne, vanished from her apartment on 1 July 1975 after three men visited her that evening; police treated the case as a homicide, and a 2018 coronial inquest found her deceased, but no one has been charged.
UNSOLVEDListenKananook railway station, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1990
Sarah MacDiarmid, a 23-year-old Scottish-Australian woman, vanished from Kananook railway station in Melbourne on 11 July 1990 after getting off a train; despite an inquest ruling her death was foul play, no trace of her body has ever been found.
SOLVEDListenAvondale Heights / Altona Meadows, Melbourne, Australia · 2000
Melbourne solicitor Keith William Allan disappeared around 28 May 2000 in a contract killing orchestrated by his employee, who had been embezzling from his trust account; three men were eventually convicted after three trials, though his body was never found.
SOLVEDListenSouth Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 2013
Melbourne interior designer Stuart Rattle was murdered by his partner of 16 years, Michael Anthony O'Neill, at their South Yarra home in December 2013 after an argument; O'Neill later set fire to the house and pleaded guilty to murder and arson.
The files run from 1921 to 2019. The 2010s hold the most, with 5 files. The oldest is Disappearance of Julie Garciacelay, from 1975.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (15), disappearance cases (2) and mass shooting cases (1).
1 file of the 16 has coverage attached: 3 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 3 creators. Coffeehouse Crime, That Chapter and 60 Minutes Australia have covered the most of them.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Heritage buildings on Sydney Road, Brunswick — Credit: Philip Mallis, via Wikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 2.0Source
1 flinders st station melb — Credit: Adam.J.W.C.CC BY-SA 2.5Source
Easey Street, Collingwood — Credit: CanleyCC BY-SA 3.0Source
File:Monash University Menzies Building.jpg — Credit: MelburnianCC BY 2.5Source
File:Elizabeth Street tram terminus, Melbourne.jpg — Credit: No machine-readable author provided. Dysprosia~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright…Editorial useSource
Melbourne map 1855 — Credit: Victoria. Surveyor-General.Public domainSource
16. By status: 2 unsolved, 1 cold, 1 ongoing, 11 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Disappearance of Julie Garciacelay, from 1975. Open the file
Coffeehouse Crime (1 case), That Chapter (1 case) and 60 Minutes Australia (1 case).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 14, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
