A man will stand trial after pleading not guilty to charges he murdered a woman and her brother almost 32 years ago in the home they shared in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.
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Following his arrest, he was photographed in a police car covering his face with a baseball cap.
Numerous were interviewed by police after one of Ms McCartney s former lovers made the grizzly discovery three decades ago, but no one was charged.
Homicide Detective Senior Sergeant Paul Newman told a 1991 inquest that Mrs McCartney - a mother-of-three - was used and abused by men and boys between the ages of 15 and 86 since her husband died 10 years earlier.
A 58-year-old Rowville man was arrested on Thursday and photographed in a police car covering his face with a baseball cap (pictured)
A coroner described a revolving door of male visitors, including members of a local cricket club, schoolboys, council workers, and neighbours.
Homicide squad detectives arrested a 58-year-old Rowville man on Thursday relating to the murder of 71-year-old Doris McCartney and her brother Ronald Swann, 69. The man was escorted into police custody on Thursday morning and will be interviewed by detectives this afternoon. He was photographed in a police vehicle wearing a baseball cap covering his face. Last week the Herald Sun revealed police were announcing a $1 million reward over the Moorabbin murder. Ms McCartney and Mr Swann were found strangled in their shared Keith St, Moorabbin house on October 22, 1989. There were no signs of forced entry and nothing had been taken.