Bronwynne Richardson was crowned Miss Corowa in 1973 and raped and murdered in Albury the same year! After almost 40 years, the accused, Colin Michael Newey, who allegedly abducted, raped and killed a teenager at Albury more than 40 years ago has been arrested in one of the state's oldest unsolved homicide cases.
Police alleges that, on October 12, 1973, the accused dragged Ms Richardson into a car on Smollett Street, Albury, a regional town on the flats of the Murray River. It was a Friday evening when the beauty queen was driven to a reserve, about six kilometres out of the town. It was there that she was allegedly assaulted in the dark before she was strangled and thrown into the Murray River. Her body was found in Horseshoe Lagoon, off the river, two days later.
Though the pain cannot be calmed down but Bronwynne's parents, Noelle and Stan Richardson, are a little relieved at the news that the accused has finally been arrested over their daughter's death.
In 1975, a coronial inquest found that Bronwynne died of strangulation and drowning. A new investigation was launched in 1990 after new evidence was found and three men were charged but were never convicted. Detectives refused to give up on the case and, in 2008, the newly formed Southern Region Unsolved Homicide Team set up a new investigation under a strike force called Kulaman. Five years later detectives arrested the accused in his home town of Murray Bridge, about 75 kilometres from Adelaide in South Australia. He was taken to the local police station and charged by virtue of a NSW arrest warrant.
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