Million Dollar Murders

In the 1990s the Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda was a dangerous place. A number of sex workers were murdered and discarded after being taken from the streets where they worked. One of these women was Amanda Byrnes who was brutally murdered in 1991.

In 1991, twenty year old Penny Hill had just started a new job as a nanny in the small town of Coolah. Three days later she was bashed and left to die on the side of a country road.

Twenty years can pass in the blink of an eye for some, but for Peter and Robyn Stace, they have felt every single day. Because every day that goes by is another 24 hours, they don't have justice for their teenage daughter Lee Ellen Stace, whose murder in 1997 remains unsolved.

Gary Allibon was ambushed during a robbery on his cash-in-transit van in the middle of Sydney's commercial district in 2010. He was due to retire within eight-months, when he was fatally shot in the back. He had his hands up, surrendering, when he was murdered. Despite extensive investigations at the time and over the past decade, no one has been charged over Allibon's murder.

Kevin Pearce operated a freight distribution business when late one night a fatal bullet from a hunting rifle went through his left arm, shattered against his ribs, and lodged in his spine.

On a cold wintry evening, in June 1999, Belinda Williams' 6 year old daughter, was frightened by the dark, so her mum, tucked her back into bed and read her to sleep with fairy tales. When the child woke the next morning, her mother was not on the bed next to her, she was not in the house. Thirty six year old, Belinda Williams, was nowhere to be found.