Anni
Margaret TOMINAC and Joy HODGINS
Anni
Margaret TOMINAC and Joy HODGINS
Anni Joy
Anni Tominac -
16 year old Anni Tominac was last seen leaving an address in Mayfield NSW with her 18 year old friend, Joy Hodgins. They are believed to have gone to the Ambassador nightclub in Hunter Street Newcastle.
They were supposedly going to stay in a hotel.
She has not been seen or heard from since this date. There are grave concerns for her welfare.
Anyone with information which may assist in locating Anni is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Dozens of women who were brutally murdered or disappeared on the NSW North Coast, but whose perpetrators were never caught can be revealed among fears some of them could be the work of one or more serial killers.
A list of more than 60 women who were brutally murdered or disappeared on the NSW North Coast, but whose perpetrators were never caught can be revealed among fears some of them could be the work of one or more serial killers.
NSW Upper House MP Jeremy Buckingham will today receive a briefing from the NSW Police over the devastating list of women who were found dead or vanished between Newcastle and Byron Bay over a 30-year period. In all these cases, no culprit was brought to justice.
For years police have suspected that some of the deaths or disappearances of the women were connected, but while some had operations set up to explore the potential connections, others may never have been properly investigated.
Former NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Mick Willing, who commanded the homicide squad between 2011 and 2017 said the way cold cases from decades ago are prioritised has led to many not being properly reinvestigated, leaving police open to missing possible connections between cases.
“There are a lot of these cases that just sit in databases and have never been reviewed,” he said.
“There are unsolved homicide cases that sit there - there are many cases that are not even looked at.
“So you could miss things that are connected to other things - ideally what you need is a database that links all these cases together across Australia.”
Mr Willing said while there had not been a serial killer identified in NSW since Ivan Milat murdered multiple hitchhikers along the Hume Highway in the 1980s and 90s, there was a possibility some of the disappearances along the North Coast could have the same perpetrator, though many would also be isolated incidents,
“You would think there’s a possibility that some of them could be connected,” he said.
“The thinking around a few of the cases was that maybe Milat might be responsible - but there is no evidence of that,” he said.
What people don’t realise about unsolved homicides is that most of them were solved by DNA but some of the old exhibits that were collected have been destroyed.”
A NSW Police spokesperson said there had been multiple investigations including taskforce Fenwick and strike force Arapaima had been established to investigate links between some of the north coast abductions.
17-year-old Anni Tominac and 18-year-old Joy Hodgins had also disappeared after a night out at a Newcastle club in July 1978. Neither girl was seen again and no culprit has ever been found.