Qld: Second man arrested over 1999 murders

AAP General News (Australia)
02-14-2008
Qld: Second man arrested over 1999 murders

BRISBANE, Feb 14 AAP - A northern NSW man has been charged over the 1999 murders of
a couple in their house in the Gold Coast hinterland.

The 40-year-old Murwillumbah man is the second man charged over the murders of Anne-Maree
Kropp and Christopher Nancarrow, police said.

The bodies of Ms Kropp, 24, and Mr Nancarrow, 27, were found inside their Springbrook
Road home at Springbrook on February 1, 1999.

Both had been stripped naked and suffered multiple stab wounds.

The pair grew up in Maitland, in the NSW Hunter Valley, before moving to the Gold Coast
in the late 1990s.

Homicide detectives swooped on the man on the Gold Coast yesterday.

He appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court charged with two counts of murder and
was remanded in custody to reappear on March 31.

On October 21 last year, police arrested a 42-year-old man from the northern NSW town
of Tumbulgum over the murders, 18 months after Queensland Police launched a review of
the case.

The Queensland government and police offered a $250,000 reward for information leading
to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in the murders.

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