In 1989, Michelle Lewis rode away from her friend s house on a bike - and was never seen again. Queensland police announced a $500,000 reward for information on her disappearance.
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Subscriber only Jason Robert Ryan, 24, pleaded guilty in Bundaberg District Court on Wednesday to 14 charges including assault occasioning bodily harm and common assault, all as domestic violence offences. The court heard Ryan had been in a relationship with his partner since 2015 and assaulted her a number of times between 2017 and 2020. The assaults included an incident where Ryan threw her to the ground while she was pregnant and another where he choked her. He also threw keys at her, cutting her with them, punched, kicked and squished her face between his hands to the point of her teeth cutting the inside of her mouth.
For almost five years, a missing schoolgirl s traumatised family believed that she was the victim of a psychopathic serial killer. They mourned her death and held a memorial service to remember her, while her apparent murderer faced justice in court. But the bizarre truth was hidden in a cupboard much, much closer to home, in a case that captivated and enraged Australia. Fifteen years ago, Leonard John Fraser was on trial for the murder of Natasha Ryan, who had vanished from outside a movie theatre in the Queensland town of Rockhampton in 1998. Natasha Ryan vanished from Rockhampton in central Queensland when she was 14-years-old and was thought to be the victim of a serial killer.