Other than Johnson, they also included Ross Warren and John Russell, about whom the former deputy state coroner Jacqueline Milledge made a more definitive judgment in 2005 she found both were murdered in 1989 around the Bondi-Tamarama cliff walk. It did find that five of the 23 were “suspected” bias crimes. Of the 23 deaths that remained unsolved, it found solid evidence of a gay-hate crime in not a single case. US mathematician Scott Johnson’s death was initially declared a suicide.
