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Suspect arrested in 1988 death of American man in Sydney

by Associated Press
| May 12, 2020 12:27 AM

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — More than 30 years after American mathematician Scott Johnson died after falling off a cliff in Sydney, a man has been charged with his death in an apparent gay hate crime that police believe was one of many over several decades in Australia’s largest city.

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