AU - Crispin Dye, 41, AC/DC’s former manager murdered; possible hate crime, Sydney, December 1993

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New person of interest identified in AC/DC manager death - BBC News

The death of Crispin Dye is being investigated as part of an Australian inquiry into gay hate crimes.

www.bbc.com

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DNA breakthrough in former AC/DC manager’s murder

A person of interest has been identified in the 1993 murder of Crispin Dye in Darlinghurst. The man had a substantial criminal history, including assault.

www.smh.com.au

Michaela Whitbourn​

August 22, 2023

''The Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes, which is being conducted in Sydney, sent Dye’s jeans and shirt for forensic testing for the first time this year. None of Dye’s clothing had ever been sent for forensic analysis by NSW Police.
“For a period of 30 years the exhibits do not appear to have been properly examined,” Meg O’Brien, one of a team of counsel assisting the inquiry, said at a hearing on Tuesday.

In an explosive hearing in June, the inquiry revealed that a blood stain on Dye’s jeans had yielded a DNA profile from a man dubbed unknown male A, and that this profile was linked to a second crime scene.

Photo of Crispin Dye’s blue jeans, which were sent for forensic testing this year by the LGBTIQ hate crimes inquiry.
On Tuesday, the inquiry heard that a DNA match had been confirmed and a person of interest had been identified: a man who allegedly committed a break and enter in Sydney’s Glenwood in February 2002. A blood swab was obtained from that crime scene. The man’s name was suppressed by the inquiry.''

'A new person of interest has been identified in the cold case killing of former AC/DC manager Crispin Dye.'

 

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Forty-one-year-old Dye died on Christmas Day 1993 after he was brutally attacked in the city of Darlinghurst.

''Despite suspicions that the attack was prompted by anti-gay sentiments, detectives investigated the killing as a robbery at the time due to the area where it unfolded. Authorities reopened the investigation in 1995 and offered a $100,000 reward in 2014 for information that led to an arrest — but the case became cold.

Meg O’Brien, the counsel assisting the inquiry, has since revealed that police missed pieces of paper in Dye’s shirt pocket and that his blood-stained clothes were not tested for DNA until the case was reopened earlier this year.''

New line in cold case of murdered AC/DC ex-manager Crispin Dye in Australia

Key evidence, including a piece of paper in Dye’s shirt pocket and his bloodied clothes, were not tested for 30 years

www.independent.co.uk