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Troy O’Meara pleads guilty over 1983 rape and murder of Linda Reed on Gold Coast
The man accused of raping and killing Gold Coast woman Linda Reed in one of the state’s oldest cold case murders has pleaded guilty before it was revealed he had killed another woman two years later.
Key points:
- Troy O’Meara pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of Linda Reed in 1983
- The court heard he was 17 when he randomly approached her at a shopping centre
- He is serving a life sentence for the murder of another woman
Ms Reed, 21, was last seen taking a lunch break from her retail job at Pacific Fair in Broadbeach in December 1983.
Her body was found in bushland at Gaven three days after she disappeared.
After 35 years, police arrested and charged Troy James O’Meara, 54, in 2018.
On Monday morning, O’Meara, 54, pleaded guilty to her rape…
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