Suspect charged in 1988 cold case murder of Scott Johnson

2023 UPDATE: ABC News Studios releases four-part doc on 1988 true crime murder via Hulu. Watch “Never Let Him Go” trailer here.

Australian police have charged a man with the decades-old murder of a gay US student in Sydney.

The body of Scott Johnson, 27, was found at the bottom of beach cliffs in 1988. Police ruled it a suicide.

However, later inquiries concluded he had been killed in a hate crime. This also drew attention to other cases of homophobic killings around Sydney's beaches in the 1980s.

Scott Price, 49, was arrested at his Sydney home on Tuesday, May 12th.

Read more via BBC News.