GUILTY Australia - John Christianos-Human Remains Found Oakleigh South Warehouse, Melbourne

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Suspected human remains found at Oakleigh South warehouse in Melbourne's south.

Suspected human remains may have been in storage shed wheelie bin 'for 15 years'

Suspected human remains have been discovered inside a wheelie bin by workers clearing it out at a storage warehouse in Melbourne's south-east.

""What we're looking at is what's possibly a long-term decomposition of a body here so we'll need to take a fair investigation to get to the bottom of it," she said.

She said the remains may have been there for more than 15 years"

 

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Suspected human remains found at Oakleigh South warehouse in Melbourne's south.

Suspected human remains may have been in storage shed wheelie bin 'for 15 years'

Suspected human remains have been discovered inside a wheelie bin by workers clearing it out at a storage warehouse in Melbourne's south-east.

""What we're looking at is what's possibly a long-term decomposition of a body here so we'll need to take a fair investigation to get to the bottom of it," she said.

She said the remains may have been there for more than 15 years"

Pretty gruesome discovery to make. Hopefully it won’t take police long to track down the person who owned the storage unit before the current one and the deceased person has their name restored.

 

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Yes I hope so.
I hate to think that someone has got away with murder grrr.

 

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'We're in a world of unknown': Family devastated by woman's disappearance


Sally Cheong

Missing since: Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Last seen: Oakleigh South, Victoria
Year of birth: 1985
Gender: Female
Height: 162cm
Build: Slim
Hair: Brown
Complexion: Tanned
Eyes: Brown

 

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When I saw this story I wondered if it could be Paul Wright (not a lot of info on his case): Australia - Australia - Paul Wright, 27, Rosanna, Vic, Oct 2003

 

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But looks like this might be a woman:

A black boot was the first sign to workers they'd made a gruesome discovery, after they'd been asked by the new storage facility owners to clean out the unit, which had not been accessed or paid for over many years.

The Herald Sun reports the shoe has been described as a "woman's boot" and that it "may be the breakthrough police need to solve a decades-old cold case".

"Jokingly, someone said it'd be freaky if there was a body in there. And we came across this, what looked like a boot, and someone said 'There's a boot'," Anton Hillemancher told the publication.

"I noticed what looked like a foot to me, in a sock, and I just thought, 'Oh, sh*t'."

Breakthrough clue was ‘attached to body’ in bin

Any cold cases where a woman went missing wearing black boots?

 

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Video interview with two of the workers who found the remain: Clue that led storage facility workers to grisly discovery

One of them said it looked like a woman's sock.

 

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What happened to Nicole? - Star Weekly

Was wearing black boots but one of the boots was maybe thought to be found

Nicole Reid


Suburb:
Epping
Date:
1992-02-22

Age:
19
Gender:
Female
Street:
High St
Council:
Whittlesea
Postcode:
3076
Death Type:
Unknown
What we Know:
Ms Reid, who was also known as Nikki Elms, was last seen at Epping Hotel after 1am on February 22, 1992. She told friends she would see them at home in 15 minutes but never arrived. She was wearing distinctive black thigh-high boots over her jeans.
Latest Development:
An inquest in 1995 was told a man had confessed to friends that he was responsible for Ms Reid's disappearance. He died of a drug overdose nine months later.
Lines of Inquiry: Random attack
A friend told the coroner that she saw Nicole with a man outside the pub but could not identify him as John Ioannou, the man who allegedly confessed to involvement in her death.
Quote:
"She said she would walk home and be about 15 minutes. She told me not to go to sleep as she would be home

 

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What happened to Nicole? - Star Weekly

Was wearing black boots but one of the boots was maybe thought to be found

Nicole Reid


Suburb:
Epping
Date:
1992-02-22

Age:
19
Gender:
Female
Street:
High St
Council:
Whittlesea
Postcode:
3076
Death Type:
Unknown
What we Know:
Ms Reid, who was also known as Nikki Elms, was last seen at Epping Hotel after 1am on February 22, 1992. She told friends she would see them at home in 15 minutes but never arrived. She was wearing distinctive black thigh-high boots over her jeans.
Latest Development:
An inquest in 1995 was told a man had confessed to friends that he was responsible for Ms Reid's disappearance. He died of a drug overdose nine months later.
Lines of Inquiry: Random attack
A friend told the coroner that she saw Nicole with a man outside the pub but could not identify him as John Ioannou, the man who allegedly confessed to involvement in her death.
Quote:
"She said she would walk home and be about 15 minutes. She told me not to go to sleep as she would be home

It could be her. I only heard the workers who found the remains describe seeing one boot. No mention of if there was a pair of boots in the bin.

 

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Shannon Deery‏Verified account @s_deery 13m13 minutes ago
BREAKING: POLICE have identified remains found in a bin inside a Melbourne storage facility as those of a missing male. They are working to contact his next of kin. More @theheraldsun soon.

 

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Oh wow it's a male!

 

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Man identified in wheelie bin in Melbourne

 

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Poor family about to get some very bad news

 

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I wonder if the man could be the one who rented the storage unit and that's when rent stopped being paid.

"Missing Persons Squad detectives on Sunday revealed the results of a post mortem examination on the badly decomposed body had resulted in the identification"

"LAST week, detectives were tracing a man who rented an Oakleigh South storage unit in which a body stuffed inside a wheelie bin has lain hidden for nearly two decades.
It is not yet clear whether they have been able to contact that man"
"A man was renting the storage unit in the early 2000s but inexplicably stopped paying the bill, leaving piles of junk behind"
Category: | Herald Sun

I think the man that rented the storage is the man in the bin, just my guess and I've been known to be wrong.

 

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Oakleigh South body identified as missing graphic artist

"John Christianos — who would now be aged 56 — was last seen at his Bentleigh East home on June 11, 2001"

Category: | Herald Sun

Mr Christianos was the eldest of three children and was described as "psychologically fragile" by the Coroner.

Body in the bin identified as man missing for 17 years

 

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Oakleigh South body identified as missing graphic artist

"John Christianos — who would now be aged 56 — was last seen at his Bentleigh East home on June 11, 2001"

Category: | Herald Sun

Mr Christianos was the eldest of three children and was described as "psychologically fragile" by the Coroner.

Body in the bin identified as man missing for 17 years

So sad. Hope they find out what happened.

 

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Oakleigh South body identified as missing graphic artist

"John Christianos — who would now be aged 56 — was last seen at his Bentleigh East home on June 11, 2001"

Category: | Herald Sun

Mr Christianos was the eldest of three children and was described as "psychologically fragile" by the Coroner.

Body in the bin identified as man missing for 17 years

Vale John. Prayers of strength and comfort to his loved ones in their time of grief x

 

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There was an inquest in 2011

Finding - Inquest into the Death of John Christianos - Coroners Court of Victoria

It's a PDF file.

A self harm attempt was mentioned not long before he disappeared.

But surely it must be murder, didn't the barrel have straps over it.

And the usual Lifeline message isn't there.

Nothing in the news about finding the person who rented the storage place,

Hopefully now the poor guys name is out there someone will remember something that will lead to finding whoever did this.

 

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Condolences to friends and family, so very sad.