Australian Man Convicted Over the 1988 Murder of Gay American
The Sydney Morning Herald.The admission allowed the way for the judge to convict White of Johnson’s murder.It brings an end to the decades-long fight for justice by Johnson’s brother, Scott Johnson.“It’s over, finally,” Steve Johnson, a tech entrepreneur, told The New York Times. “This 33-year odyssey has come to a conclusion.”Scott Johnson was a doctoral student at the Australian National University in Canberra.
He’d moved to the country to be with his partner and had even applied for permanent residency before he was killed on December 8, 1988.
His body was found below a cliff in Sydney.The area his remains were found in was known to be a cruising spot for men looking for sexual liaisons.
The Australian police originally reported the death as a suicide.His brother didn’t believe it was. “I have never believed Scott killed himself,” Steve Johnson wrote in The Advocate in 2014. “Scott was one of his generation’s brightest academic stars, with a promising future.
