Julie Ann Stewart was close to tracking down her brother when she discovered he had been violently murdered. 9News
Mark Russell had been living rough on Sydney's streets around Woolloomooloo and Kings Cross for the better part of three decades.
"It was a pretty awful sort of place, like something out of Flowers in the Attic, it was so big," she said."We didn't see her again until I was 15." Stewart ended up working for the Commonwealth Bank. She married and had five children in Port Macquarie, where she still lives. "I easily could have ended up on the streets too, but I ended up finding a job and getting married and having kids," she said.
At the beginning of 2018, Stewart met up with Russell's son, Shayne, and the pair decided they would try their best to track him down. There were also reports that more visitors were inside the unit during the day, but it was not clear if they were the same people who were there later in the evening.Noticing his door was unusually closed the next morning, a concerned friend climbed through his window and discovered Russell's body.
A day before the coronial finding, police announced a $1 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Russell's murderer."I couldn't believe it, I was so humbled and grateful.
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