Rosemary Brown and Melissa Trussell
- Sarah Turney
- Aug 7
- 2 min read
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosemary-brown-and-melissa-trussell/id1469338483?i=1000721119903
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0bOZd7RBfkUQiZPb2s8QIC?si=_iOAdUiNQpWvyTMbPm0ncg
On Saturday, May 13, 2000, in Adelaide, South Australia, a mother and her teenage daughter were last seen leaving their home at 2:30 a.m. We don’t know why or what happened to them after that. What we do know is that one of them was murdered, and the other remains missing to this day. But thanks to a recent discovery just a few weeks before recording this episode, rewards totaling over a million dollars and new technology, investigators are more hopeful than ever that this case can and will be solved.
There is a $200,000 reward for information about Rosemary Brown and $1,000,000 reward for information about Melissa Trussell. Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers at 1-800-333-0000. Information can also be submitted through their website Crimestoppers.com.au.




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