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EXCLUSIVE: NSW Police reopen missing teens' cold case murder investigation
The suspected murders of four girls from the New South Wales Hunter region is being re-investigated by a new police strike force.
One of the girl's cases was never investigated by police, while two were not reported to the coroner until 20 years after their disappearance.
"I hope to God they get answers for some of us, it's hell on earth, heartache and suffering for 40 years," said Anne Robinson, the mother of one of the missing girls.
University student Leanne Goodall, 20, vanished after leaving the Star Hotel in Newcastle in December, , while dental nurse Robyn Hickie was abducted on her way to meet friends at Belmont in the Lake Macquarie region.
A fortnight later Amanda Robinson, 14, was snatched at Swansea, somewhere between the Pacific Highway and Lake Road, as she was walking home from a school dance.
About 15 years after that, schoolgirl Gordana Kotevski was walking home from a nearby mall when she was also kidnapped by two men in a white vehicle at Charlestown.
Former state coroner John Abernethy resided over the inquest into the girl's
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Coroner blasts 'extraordinary' inquiries into missing women
The State Coroner, John Abernethy, lashed out yesterday at the papper of the original investigations into three missing women, saying it was extraordinary that leads were never followed up, statements never taken and detectives taken off the unsolved cases.
He said he could not understand why it had taken 23 years for the disappearances - presumed murders - to be referred to a coroner.
Nor could he understand how the investigations were "shut down" and had "died" within a year of the women going missing.
Leanne Goodall, 20, Robyn Hickie, 18, and Amanda Robinson, 14, disappeared between månad and April while waiting for or getting off buses at bus stops on the Pacific Highway in Newcastle. In the case of Ms Goodall, a formal investigation was never launched.
At the inquest yesterday, Mr Abernethy asked Norm Sheather, who was in charge of Newcastle district detectives at the time, why the Goodall disappearance was never looked at by a detective.
"I don't know. It should have been," said Mr Sheather, now retired.
Mr Sheather also could not give a reason why furth
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Million-dollar reward announced for information into unsolved disappearance of NSW teenagers in
Police are offering a $1 million reward for information into the unsolved disappearances and suspected murder of two teenagers near the New South Wales Central Coast over four decades ago.
Robyn Hickie, aged 18, and Amanda Robinson, aged 14, disappeared two weeks apart in in the Lake Macquarie region of NSW.
Ms Hickie left her home around pm on Saturday April 1 , and was last seen standing at a bus stop on the Pacific Highway, Belmont North.
A fortnight later, Ms Robinson was spotted walking along Lake Road in Swansea, on a Saturday night, after attending a dance at her high school in Gateshead.
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Despite extensive investigations at the time, and over the years, neither of the girls have been located.
A Coronial Inquest into their disappearances found that the teenagers were deceased, most likely as a result of foul play.
No one has been arrested over either disappearance.
"Even though the two girls when missing two weeks apart, police are treating them as a single investigation,&quo