Fifty-nine-year-old Terrence Black was a divorced father of two who was retired and lived at the Yarra Junction mobile home park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. According to friends and relatives, he was a “peaceful” man who spent his time working on cars and listening to Elvis Presley.
Between nine and ten a.m. on May 5th, 2000, Terrence was seen in the parking lot of a supermarket liquor store near his home; he didn’t have a car of his own, and often used buses or cabs to get around. There was another possible sighting of him later that afternoon at the Yarra Junction football ground, but after that, he seems to have vanished off the face of the earth. His brother Lindsay reported him missing on May 18th.
A little less than a month later, on June 16th, Terrence’s body was discovered in the Little Yarra River adjacent to a rural property in Gladysdale. Though his exact cause of death was not specified, authorities made it clear they believed he’d been killed in the bathroom of the football ground where he was last seen, and then dumped into the river where he was later found.
Two men and one woman, all of whom were acquaintances of Terrence, were questioned about his murder, but no arrests were ever made. Another resident of the mobile home park, fifty-eight-year-old Carl Toivonen, remains the prime suspect.
In 2004, a reward of $100,000 was announced for information leading to the conviction of Terrence Black’s killer or killers, and in 2018, the reward was increased to $1 million. Despite the sum, however, no new progress has been made on the case.
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