White was charged in 2020 and police say the reward will likely be collected. His Boston-based brother Steve Johnson maintained pressure for further investigation and offered his own reward of 1 million Australian dollars ($704,000) for information.
Some people were also robbed.Ī coroner had ruled in 1989 that the openly gay man had taken his own life, while a second coroner in 2012 could not explain how he died.
The coroner also found that gangs of men roamed various Sydney locations in search of gay men to assault, resulting in the deaths of some victims.
White said in the interview he lied when he had earlier told police that he had tried to grab Johnson and prevent his fatal fall.Ī coroner ruled in 2017 that Johnson “fell from the clifftop as a result of actual or threatened violence by unidentified persons who attacked him because they perceived him to be homosexual.” He went over the edge,” White said in recorded police interview in 2020 that was played in court. He faces a potential sentence of life in prison. Alabama Auburn, Birmingham, Dothan, Florence/Muscle Shoals, Gadsden-anniston, Huntsville/Decatur, Mobile, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa Arkansas Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Jonesboro, Little Rock, Texarkana Connecticut Eastern CT, Hartford, New Haven, Northwest CT Florida Daytona Beach, Florida Keys, Fort Lauderdale, Ft Myers/SW Florida, Gainesville, Heartland Florida, Jacksonville, Lakeland, North Central FL, Ocala, Okaloosa/Walton, Orlando, Panama City, Pensacola, Sarasota-bradenton, South Florida, Space Coast, St Augustine, Tallahassee, Tampa Bay Area, Treasure Coast, West Palm Beach Idaho Boise, East Idaho, Lewiston/Clarkston, Twin Falls Iowa Ames, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Dubuque, Fort Dodge, Iowa City, Mason City, Quad Cities, Sioux City, Southeast IA, Waterloo/Cedar Falls Louisiana Baton Rouge, Central Louisiana, Houma, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Monroe, New Orleans, Shreveport Massachusetts Boston, Cape Cod/Islands, South Coast, Western Massachusetts, Worcester/Central MA Mississippi Gulfport/Biloxi, Hattiesburg, Jackson, Meridian, North Mississippi, Southwest MS Nebraska Grand Island, Lincoln, North Platte, Omaha/Council Bluffs, Scottsbluff/Panhandle New Jersey Central NJ, Jersey Shore, North Jersey, South Jersey North Carolina Asheville, Boone, Charlotte, Eastern NC, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Hickory/Lenoir, Jacksonville, Outer Banks, Raleigh/Durham/CH, Wilmington, Winston-salem Oklahoma Lawton, Northwest OK, Oklahoma City, Stillwater, Tulsa Rhode Island Rhode Island Tennessee Chattanooga, Clarksville, Cookeville, Jackson, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville, Tri-cities Utah Logan, Ogden-clearfield, Provo/Orem, Salt Lake City, St George Washington Bellingham, Kennewick-pasco-richland, Moses Lake, Olympic Peninsula, Pullman/Moscow, Seattle-tacoma, Skagit/Island/SJI, Spokane/Coeur D`alene, Wenatchee, Yakima Wyoming WyomingĪlaska Anchorage/Mat-su, Fairbanks, Kenai Peninsula, Southeast Alaska California Bakersfield, Chico, Fresno/Madera, Gold Country, Hanford-corcoran, Humboldt County, Imperial County, Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Mendocino County, Merced, Modesto, Monterey Bay, Orange County, Palm Springs, Redding, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Siskiyou County, Stockton, Susanville, Ventura County, Visalia-tulare, Yuba-sutter Delaware Delaware Georgia Albany, Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Brunswick, Columbus, Macon/Warner Robins, Northwest GA, Savannah/Hinesville, Statesboro, Valdosta Illinois Bloomington-normal, Champaign Urbana, Chicago, Decatur, La Salle Co, Mattoon-charleston, Peoria, Rockford, Southern Illinois, Springfield, Western IL Kansas Lawrence, Manhattan, Northwest KS, Salina, Southeast KS, Southwest KS, Topeka, Wichita Maine Maine Michigan Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Central Michigan, Detroit Metro, Flint, Grand Rapids, Holland, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Monroe, Muskegon, Northern Michigan, Port Huron, Saginaw-midland-baycity, Southwest Michigan, The Thumb, Upper Peninsula Missouri Columbia/Jeff City, Joplin, Kansas City, Kirksville, Lake Of The Ozarks, Southeast Missouri, Springfield, St Joseph, St Louis Nevada Elko, Las Vegas, Reno/Tahoe New Mexico Albuquerque, Clovis/Portales, Farmington, Las Cruces, Roswell/Carlsbad, Santa Fe/Taos North Dakota Bismarck, Fargo/Moorhead, Grand Forks, North Dakota Oregon Bend, Corvallis/albany, East Oregon, Eugene, Klamath Falls, Medford-ashland, Oregon Coast, Portland, Roseburg, Salem South Carolina Charleston, Columbia, Florence, Greenville/Upstate, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach Territories Guam-micronesia, Puerto Rico, U.S.White will be sentenced by Justice Helen Wilson on Tuesday.