Overview
- Magistrate Teresa O’Sullivan delivered open findings that rule out an accident and attribute Strobel’s death to one or more unknown persons while not determining a definitive cause.
- She found it likely the killer had a sexual motive and that Strobel’s clothes were removed for that purpose before her body was concealed near the Lismore caravan park.
- The coroner urged re-analysis of two unassigned forensic traces—a hair from the scene and male DNA on Strobel’s clothing—by the NSW Homicide Squad’s unsolved-homicide unit.
- Her conclusions depart from a 2007 inquest that suggested smothering and found no sexual motive for the killing.
- On the balance of probabilities, O’Sullivan assessed it was unlikely then‑boyfriend Tobias Moran or his sister were involved; charges laid against Moran in 2022 were discontinued in 2023 for lack of evidence.