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Troy O Meara pleads guilty over 1983 rape and murder of Linda Reed on Gold Coast
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Linda Reed on her wedding day. She was found dead after disappearing from Pacific Fair in December 1983.
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The man accused of raping and killing Gold Coast woman Linda Reed in one of the state s oldest cold case murders has pleaded guilty before it was revealed he had killed another woman two years later.
Key points:
The court heard he was 17 when he randomly approached her at a shopping centre
He is serving a life sentence for the murder of another woman
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.
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