Overview

• On August 10, Victoria Police issued a fresh appeal accompanied by Karakis’s 1974 mug shot and a digitally generated age-progressed image.
• George Karakis, then 27, was charged with rape, burglary and indecent assault after a July 1974 Fitzroy break-in and vanished while on bail secured with a $1,000 surety.
• A 1990 police sighting in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and a 2015 public appeal failed to produce leads on the Turkish-born fugitive.
• Detectives warn that Karakis, who would now be 78, may have died but remain determined to resolve the cold case.
• Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers and help bring long-awaited closure to the victim, now in her eighties.