A $500,000 reward has been provided for details about a 25-year-old homicide of an unknown man who was discovered beheaded within the New South Wales southern highlands.
In 1997, a person and a lady stopped at a public relaxation cease on the Hume Freeway at Penrose, close to Marulan, the place they observed a physique submerged on the fringe of the river.
Police discovered a person who had been decapitated.
A few weeks later police had been informed 4 fishermen discovered a procuring bag with a human head in it in Salt Pan Creek, Padstow, a month earlier.
Police retrieved the pinnacle and it was confirmed as a match of the stays in Penrose.
The person's stays and different gadgets had been forensically examined by a forensic sculptor to create a plaster recreation of the person's face.
It was displayed as a part of a public enchantment for data later in 1997.
Regardless of intensive efforts, the person has by no means been recognized.
In 1999, an inquest by the NSW Coroner discovered the person had been strangled to dying by an individual or a number of folks round February 20, 1997.
Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty stated the homicide seemed to be performed in an execution type.
"It seems to be such a ugly homicide to go to the efforts of murdering somebody in that vogue, weighing the physique down then slicing the pinnacle off, it seems to be," he stated.
Fingerprint and DNA evaluation have didn't determine the person.
Detective Superintendent Doherty added the person might not have grown up in Australia in accordance with dental evaluation, and he would have been 180cm tall, weighed 86 kilograms and was between 30 and 40 years previous.
Police have now created a brand new reconstruction of the person's face to enchantment to the general public for his identification.
The $500,000 reward for data is hoped to result in the person's identification or these liable for his homicide.
Deputy Premier and Minister for Police Paul Toole stated the fashionable know-how that police use right now might assist to unravel the homicide.
"Whereas it is a significantly ugly crime that occurred a long time in the past, police consider their questions can nonetheless be answered by somebody in our neighborhood," Mr Toole stated.
"I might encourage anybody with even the smallest piece of knowledge to achieve out to police."
Detective Superintendent Doherty stated the person had a definite tattoo that will assist to determine him.
"Now we have additionally issued a photograph of a definite letter 'A' type tattoo discovered on the person's upper-right arm within the hope somebody might recognise him," Detective Superintendent Doherty stated.
"He was murdered in a very ugly vogue and his bare physique was left in a river on the facet of a freeway, his head decapitated."
"This individual has remained an enigma for 25 years we have to give this man a reputation and an identification and discover who's liable for this ugly homicide."
Anybody with data is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.