PENNY HILL

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Penny Hill, then aged 20, was found unconscious with severe head and facial injuries on Cassilis Road, near Coolah, about 8am on Monday 8 July 1991.

She was taken to John Hunter Hospital, where she died two weeks later, on Sunday 21 July 1991.

In 1992, a coronial inquest held in Mudgee returned an opening finding on the cause and manner of death.

Detectives from the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad commenced further investigations into Penny’s murder under Strike Force Samdon, before a second coronial inquest was held in 2012.

The second inquest also delivered an opening finding and was returned to investigators, who pursued a number of new lines of inquiry, however, no one has ever been charged in relation to Penny’s death.

Reward 

The NSW Government has increased a reward to $1 million for information into the murder of Penny Hill in the state’s west nearly three decades ago.