BY IAN CROUCH
Police Minister David Elliott is today announcing a $1 million reward for information into an unsolved murder in the Hunter more than 26 years ago.
The body of 22-year-old Melissa Hunt was found floating in a dam at Bluegum Creek near Stockrington on Anzac Day 1994.
A post mortem found she died from massive head injuries before being thrown into the water, with her body weighed down by sandstone rocks placed inside her clothes.
Melissa’s family has been calling for an inquest into her death to be reopened after it was suspended in the late 90’s because the Coroner believed there was sufficient evidence for charges to be laid against a person of interest, who’s never been publicly identified.
But nothing eventuated.
It’s hoped the reward will encourage the community to come forward with information to assist detectives with their investigation.
