Police hope the $ seven hundred and fifty thousand bounty will lead them to the bodies of new state women who were killed by murder two years ago. It was a year after her boyfriend was convicted of his death.
On the night of Aug. 9, 2015, the warm and kind mother, Johann Morgan, disappeared from Tamworth`s home.
Four months later, police arrested her then boyfriend, Troy Jason Ruttley., in 2017. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to at least 18 years in prison.
But Morgan`s body has not been found so far.
Photo: deceased Johann Morgan
"We don`t have any evidence at the moment to tell us where the body is," Officer Fred Trench told reporters on Monday, after announcing the huge bonus.
He said finding Morgan`s body would put an end to the "final chapter" of the tragedy and help the family to complete the case and secure the dead.
"for the sake of others, it must be heartbreaking that no family remains have been found so far."
Morgan, 40, was drinking in the house with Ruttley and her family, according to court documents.
The couple have been in a intermittent relationship for the past six years. In the meantime, Ruttley burned Morgan`s car and was arrested for violating a violent order.
On the day Morgan was murder, Ruttley drank 12 beers before police accused the two men of being alone.
On Ruttley`s phone there was a recording of the couple`s quarrel that night. During the argument, Morgan kept saying that Ruttley had let her down. The neighbors said they heard banging from the house, and everything was quiet.
The New State Supreme Court heard Ruttley`s crimes. He transported Morgan`s body to an unknown location, but refused to tell investigators where it was.
He told police that the next morning he killed Morgan, Ruttley and a friend drove a white Mitsubishi car to a quarry 17 kilometers away from Tamworth and burned it.
A week later, Morgan was reported missing.
The police found a lot of blood inside and outside her house.
Court was told that before his arrest in December 2015, Ruttley had repeatedly lied to investigators and deceived his relationship with Morgan.
Ruttley was convicted in July 2017 and sentenced to 24 years in November.
After the verdict was announced, her family told reporters that only Morgan`s body could be found.
The police are calling for clues.
