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Police offer $1m reward for 50yo Vic case

Victoria Police have put a $1 million reward on the table for information in the 50-year-old case of two missing Bendigo teenagers.

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Kevin Whyte looks almost every night at a photo of his younger brother Allan, who vanished with his sweetheart in Bendigo 50 years ago.

"I sit there and look at his photo nearly every night. It's stuck in my mind," a teary-eyed Mr Whyte told reporters on Monday.

Even after 50 years, police still believe somebody in Bendigo knows something about the disappearance of 17-year-old Allan Whyte and Maureen Braddy, 16, and now a $1 million reward is on offer for information about the decades-old disappearance.

The pair were last seen leaving the YMCA dance party on Mundy Street at California Gully in Bendigo on November 23, 1968.

"There is somebody in the Bendigo area that has information in relation to the disappearance of these two young people" Detective Inspector Steve Dennis told reporters.

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Lyn Ireland says she just wants to find out during her lifetime what happened to her older sister Maureen.

"It would be nice to know before I do go instead of handballing it to my kids," Ms Ireland told reporters.

"Who wants to handball a nightmare to their offspring?

"They've got a life, they don't need to live my past."

A 2014 coronial inquest ruled the teenagers met with foul play and it was likely they died the night of the dance, but their families have never given up hope of getting answers.

"If Allan was going to go anywhere, he would've taken the car. There was no money taken out of his account, no clothes... nothing," Mr Whyte said.

"After he went missing, I thought he might have gone back to another farm to work.

"I want to find his remains and have them brought back home."


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