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THE ROADS TO NOWHERE

FIONA BURNS WESTERN HIGHWAY

Barbie McCarthy remembers her sister’s mohawk hairstyle, her plans to become a scientist and how much she cherished her cats.

Barbie was 12 when the body of her sibling Fiona Burns was found on the Western Highway in Victoria, near the South Australian border in October 1990. The 15-year-old had been stabbed multiple times.

Today, a $1 million reward is on offer for anyone with information about what happened to Fiona.

“In the months before she disappeared,

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