Cops launch fresh bid to solve cold case 30 years after mystery man was murdered and dumped in long grass

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By MELISSA MEEHAN and ALLANAH SCIBERRAS FOR AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: 02:17 EDT, 13 May 2025 | Updated: 02:18 EDT, 13 May 2025

With extended trauma to his face, an unidentified antheral wandered the streets of a quiescent outer-suburban neighbourhood, shoeless, injured and cold. 

Known lone by the fig 1238/95, helium was seen struggling to enactment connected his feet earlier trying to question assistance by knocking connected the doorway of a location connected Sorbonne Drive, successful Sunbury, astir 40km from Melbourne.

His assemblage was recovered a time later, connected May 1, 1995, dumped successful agelong writer astatine North Point Business Park, an concern country of Roxburgh Park.

The antheral had suffered stab wounds to his precocious body, adding to the terrible injuries helium was already carrying.

He was wearing a navy-blue jumper, a grey Nike T-shirt and shorts.

The antheral was not wearing shoes oregon jewellery and had nary wallet oregon phone.

Almost 3 decades later, constabulary person turned to high-tech imaging to assistance them uncover the individuality down the look that has haunted them each these years.

'It is incredibly uncommon to person these circumstances wherever we person been incapable to place idiosyncratic for specified a agelong time,' Detective Sergeant Sol Solomon said. 

An representation of the unidentified antheral digitally created by constabulary (pictured)

The antheral knocked connected the doorway of a location connected Sorbonne Drive (pictured) successful Sunbury. His assemblage was recovered the pursuing time dumped successful agelong writer successful an concern area

Police person made aggregate nationalist pleas to place the antheral successful the past 3 decades. 

One of them led a subordinate of the nationalist to travel guardant to accidental they had seen a antheral who acceptable the statement hours earlier, extracurricular a location successful Sorbonne Drive, with a bloody caput coiled and facial injuries. 

The nonmigratory opened their doorway to the antheral earlier closing it and calling the police. 

They opened their doorway again erstwhile constabulary were connected the way, but the antheral was gone. 

'We judge that helium was attacked and assaulted successful adjacent proximity to Sorbonne Drive, and it appears that he's made his mode to a location to get help,' Det Sgt Solomon said.

Police person conducted an exhaustive probe to place the man, who was ne'er reported arsenic missing.

His fingerprints and dental records person been checked successful Australia and internationally, to nary avail.

'We person a idiosyncratic who has been murdered and dumped... We person ne'er been capable to find retired who that idiosyncratic is, and they person a household who would similar to cognize what has happened to their relative. We would besides similar to place the radical liable for sidesplitting this individual,' Det Sgt Solomon said.

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