Source: Border Mail
POLICE have arrested a man over the murder of Bronwynne Richardson in Albury in 1973.
Colin Michael Newey , 61, was arrested by detectives from the Southern Region Unsolved Homicide Team and local police in his home town of Murray Bridge, in South Australia, shortly after 10am Wednesday.
He appeared in the Murray Bridge magistrates court before being taken to the Adelaide Watch House where he was kept overnight.
Newey will be extradited back to Sydney on Thursday afternoon and formally charged with the abduction, rape and murder of Miss Richardson, 17, who disappeared after working at Coles in Albury on October 12, 1973.
Her body was found in Horseshoe Lagoon, off the Murray River, two days later.
She had been physically and sexually assaulted and in 1975, a coronial inquest found that she died of strangulation and drowning.
In 1990, based on fresh information, a new investigation was launched and three men were charged in connection to the crime, however none of them were convicted.
The newly-formed unsolved homicide team began investigating the case in 2008 and another coronial inquest began in 2011.
Her case is the oldest unsolved homicide in NSW to have resulted in an arrest.