Geoffrey Adams expected to die before sentencing for killing his wife Colleen in 1973

South Australia’s oldest-ever solved cold case disappearance will end without wife-killer Geoffrey Gordon Adams being sentenced for manslaughter.

Supreme Court Justice David Peek today allowed the media to report that the 72-year-old was dying of cancer.

Adams pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied he murdered his 24-year-old wife Colleen Adams inside their matrimonial home at Maitland, on the Yorke Peninsula, in November 1973.

Her remains were not found until September 2018 — after Adams confessed to killing her.

The jury acquitted him of murder in…