Police have released a digital forensic facial reconstruction of the man.Credit:NSW Police
Police have announced a $500,000 reward for information and released a digital forensic facial reconstruction of an unidentified man whose severed head was discovered by fishermen at Salt Pan Creek in the Sydney suburb of Padstow in 1997.
A month later, his body was located in a river near a rest stop on the Hume Highway in the southern highlands.
Exhaustive efforts – including displaying his personal belongings, consulting police departments around the world and making a plaster recreation of his face – left authorities no closer to identifying the man.
In 1999, the Coroner found the man had been strangled to death in February 1997 by an unknown person or persons.
Subsequent use of DNA and fingerprinting technology by unsolved homicide detectives have provided no further information on who he is.
On Saturday, the NSW government announced a $500,000 reward for information that leads to his identity or that of his killer or killers.
The facial recognition unit has also released a new digital forensic facial reconstruction to show what the man would have looked like, in the hopes that somebody will recognise him.
“He was murdered in a particularly gruesome fashion and his naked body was left in a river on the side of a highway, his head decapitated,” Homicide squad commander Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said.
“This brutal crime has remained a mystery for a significant period of time and anyone who can help solve it may receive $500,000 for their efforts, so please come forward.”
$500,000 reward for information about headless body found near highway
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