scone.com.au$1Million Reward for Penny Hill Cold Case
POLICE are offering a $1 million reward for information relating to the murder of 20 year old Narrabri woman Penny Hill, who was found brutally bashed and barely alive in a ditch on the Cassilis Road near Coolah at 8am on July 8, 1991. Penny died 13 days later at the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle.
Just three days before Penny was found, her parents had driven her to start a nanny job for the Baigent family, who owned the Black Stump Motel.
Today, detectives from the State Crime Command’s homicide squad are currently investigating Penny’s murder under Strike Force Samdon and will hold a media conference with more information later this morning.
The case was reopened in 2010 which led to a coronial inquest in Tamworth in 2012 and a recommendation that the case continue.
Since 2010, police have taken DNA samples from men in Coolah, Dubbo, Orange, Lithgow and Sydney, who were in the area at the time of Penny’s death and seized a car in 2013 for forensic testing.
Last year police offered a $100,000 reward for information and the offer of a $1million reward is hoped to bring people forward with more information and lead to a conviction.