A quarter of a century after two women were brutally murdered in a quiet Newcastle suburb, Australian law enforcement have reignited their search for justice by dramatically increasing the reward for case-breaking information to $1 million.
The case dates back to May 17, 2000, when local residents made the grim discovery of 37-year-old Joanne Teterin and 32-year-old Susan Kay inside a residential home on Doran Street in Carrington. Both victims had been bludgeoned to death, and police investigations at the time confirmed the pair were murdered, with investigators concluding they were last seen alive six days before their bodies were found, on May 11, 2000.
Despite the initial investigation, no suspects have been arrested and no convictions have ever been secured in the 26 years since the killings. An official coroner’s inquest held three years after the deaths called for the case to be transferred to the New South Wales Police Force’s unsolved homicide unit for deeper review, a process that wrapped up last year.
That recent review turned up a critical breakthrough: new forensic leads that were not accessible to investigators decades earlier, thanks to advances in forensic technology and investigative practices. These fresh opportunities have now become the central focus of the reopened investigation.
As part of the renewed push for information from the public, NSW Police have upped the original reward amount from $100,000 to $1 million – a tenfold increase designed to encourage anyone with critical details about the double homicide to come forward and finally solve one of the state’s longest-running unsolved murder mysteries.