Man charged with rape and murder of Victorian mother killed in 1994
Police revealed on Thursday they had arrested a 67-year-old man in the Central Highlands town of Ararat, more than 200 kilometres from where Mizzi was brutally assaulted in 1994.
A passerby first found the 24-year-old in bushes at the back of a property on Brighton Road in St Kilda about 11pm on March 29 that year. Mizzi was taken to hospital, but died the following morning.
Detectives charged the 67-year-old man with murder, and two counts of rape. He was due to front Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
Mizzi was living in Castlemaine in 1994, trying to get clean from the heroin she first tried as a 16-year-old, and hoping to give up the sex work she did to pay for her addiction.
But she had to pay school fees and other bills, and so travelled down the Calder to St Kilda, leaving her two children with a friend.
She never came back.
Victoria Police said on Thursday their investigation into Mizzi's death was ongoing, but the arrest highlighted detectives' commitment to holding 'those who are involved violent crimes to account'.
'It also shows that progress can be made on cases, even after decades have passed, and that we can begin the process of providing families with long-needed answers,' homicide squad Detective Inspector Dean Thomas said.
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