Scott Johnson, RIP
An Australian man has admitted murdering a Los Angeles mathematician who was found at the bottom of a Sydney cliff 34 years ago in a gay hate crime that was originally dismissed as suicide, reports Daily Mail.
Scott Johnson‘s naked body was found at the base of North Head cliff on December 8, 1988, and the 27-year-old’s death has been a long-standing mystery.
The gay hate crime was initially dismissed by police who concluded that Mr Johnson, a Los Angeles-born mathematician who lived in Canberra, had taken his own life.
After a new police investigation, Scott White was charged with murder in 2020 and has previously denied the crime.
But at a pre-trial hearing in Sydney on Monday, White repeatedly yelled in court that he was guilty of pushing Mr Johnson from the cliff 34 years ago.
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