Police hope new photos will help find remains of British backpacker Peter Falconio 25 years after infamous murder

Northern Territory Police in Australia have reopened evidence boxes in a fresh bid to close one of the country's most notorious cold cases. The Guardian reports that investigators have uncovered several previously unseen photographs from the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio and the attempted abduction of his girlfriend, Joanne Lees. Tuesday marks twenty-five years since Falconio vanished in the outback, a crime that still haunts Australia and leaves his family without answers. Police hope the images will finally help locate his remains.

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