Troy James O'Meara has this morning pleaded guilty to the 1983 rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Reed almost three years after his shock arrest in a decades-long cold case breakthrough.
His plea brings to an end one of the state's oldest cold case murder mysteries, three years after he was arrested by police who are believed to have matched microscopic skin samples found on Ms Reed's body with his DNA.
Linda Reed was on her lunch break at Pacific Fair when she was abducted.
Ms Reed's decomposed body was found in bushland near Gaven shortly before Christmas more than 35 years ago.