Article 6NGVG Police offer $1m reward to solve murder of Maria James inside Melbourne bookshop

Police offer $1m reward to solve murder of Maria James inside Melbourne bookshop

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Catholic priest Anthony Bongiorno and Peter Keogh, both dead, previously named as persons of interest

Almost 44 years after Maria James's brutal murder in her Melbourne bookshop, her two sons hope a $1m reward will finally unmask her killer.

James, whose second-hand bookshop on High Street at Thornbury in Melbourne's north also functioned as her home, was killed there on 17 June 1980 in what her son Mark described as a ritualistic", violent and frenzied attack. She was found dead after being stabbed 68 times.

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