Hundreds of Unsolved Murder Files ‘Collecting Dust’

Hundreds of Unsolved Murder Files ‘Collecting Dust’
Police tape at a crime scene in Australia. Robert Cianflone/Getty Images
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The New South Wales (NSW) Police Force has mismanaged hundreds of unsolved homicides, failed to catalogue multiple high-profile cases and left files to collect dust on senior detective’s desks, an inquiry has heard.

The investigative practices of the force between 1970 and 2010 have been exposed during the Special Commission of Inquiry into more than two dozen suspected gay hate deaths in Sydney.