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$1 million reward This year marks 20 years since the brutal murder of Marea Yann rocked the Healesville community, with Victoria Police announcing a $1 million reward for information on Tuesday 16 May 2023. Then 69-year-old Marea was found bludgeoned to death in her lounge room at about 9.40am on Tuesday 30 September 2003 by a gardener who came to work at her Juliet Crescent home. Marea was found in her armchair,
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TV still on, with extensive injuries to her upper body and head. Marea was wearing a red jumper, black pants and slip-on shoes. Investigators from the Homicide Squad determined she had likely been killed the night before. There were no signs of forced entry and nothing appeared to have been taken from the house, though her purse was found on the floor. Marea’s last known contact was made at 8.07pm on Monday 29 September, when she spoke to her daughter in Queensland over the phone.
At the time a close friend of Marea Yann told the Star Mail that in the months leading up to her murder, Marea feared for her life. Marea had told the friend ‘I’m scared that one day you will turn on the television news and see that I’ve been killed.’ Marea’s sister and Yarra Glen resident Deanne Green, now 92, visited the Star Mail office recently to help the desperate appeal to find justice and closure regarding Marea’s murder. Ms Green said she wants to be able to put
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it to rest and get on with what little life she has left. “I’m hoping after this that I never have to speak to anybody ever again about Marea’s death, I want to let it go, I want to be in peace and I want her to be at peace,” she said. “But if nothing comes of it, that’s how it is, you just want a little bit of peace in your life but it’s pretty hard when she’s on my shoulder all the time.” Continued page 3 12452267-SG26-20
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