The state coroner will today make a finding into one of Queensland’s highest-profile cold cases: the disappearance of Sharron Phillips.
Sharron Phillips has been missing since 1986 and is presumed dead.
It is a crime that has haunted south-east Queensland for almost four decades.
The last anyone heard from 20-year-old Phillips was late at night on May 8, 1986, when, after her car ran out of petrol, Phillips phoned her boyfriend, Martin Balazs, about 11pm from a phone box at Wacol, about 18 kilometres south-west of Brisbane’s CBD.
The case produced hundreds of leads, some tenuous, others more detailed. No one was charged and Phillips’ body has not been found.
In 2017, detectives named Redbank Plains taxi driver Raymond Peter Mulvihill, who died of cancer in 2002, as the suspect who would have been charged with her murder.
He was placed at the Wacol scene by his son, Ian Seeley, who said his conscience forced him to contact police the day after he read a Brisbane Times story about the cold case in May 2016.
Then-attorney-general Yvette D’Ath ordered a new inquest into Ms Phillips’ disappearance in 2017.
Today, State Coroner Terry Ryan will deliver his findings.
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