Cold Case Investigations by Xanthé Mallett

Author:Xanthé Mallett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Published: 2019-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

TASKFORCE APOLLO

In May 2010 Mr Cruel came to the fore again as new information was provided to police: a name had been put forward by a credible witness. As a result Taskforce Apollo was formed to see if the Mr Cruel case, amongst others, could be progressed.

In addition to looking at Mr Cruel’s cases, Apollo was also tasked with reviewing cold case sex crimes in Victoria more generally. All of the information collected by Spectrum had to be uploaded into a digital format (previously it had all been paper-based, which made cross-referencing and checking very time-consuming and difficult). The taskforce also had to reinterview key POIs from the original Mr Cruel investigations, trying to establish if their alibis were reliable and therefore if they could be excluded. This proved impossible in most cases.

Again, Mr Cruel slipped beneath the police’s radar, and the probe ended in 2013 without an arrest. No new or compelling evidence was uncovered and the named person was eliminated as a suspect, for the Chan murder and the other unsolved cases that were the focus of Taskforce Spectrum.

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