00:00Trapped in their upstairs bedroom, Trevor Ganter, Salvatore Tusa, Edward Boyne, Eldred
00:08Glode and Desmond Beamey were killed in an arson attack that destroyed the Oakdale guesthouse
00:14in December 1990.
00:17Consider there were 28 people in the boarding house that night, so in a way we were fortunate
00:25that we only lost the life of five people that night.
00:28Police say an argument broke out between a stranger and occupants of the hostel over
00:33a packet of cigarettes earlier in the night, but the victims were not the intended targets.
00:40I don't believe that these five people that died on the night of the fire were involved
00:46in any altercations.
00:48In 1992, a man was charged with five counts of murder and arson, but the charges were
00:54dropped two years later.
00:56The investigation then reopened in 2008 when a $250,000 reward was posted.
01:04Sixteen years later, police have doubled the reward to half a million dollars in the hope
01:10of finally solving the case.
01:12It is our intention to re-interview all witnesses and all previous persons of interest in relation
01:18to the original investigation.
01:20Nearly 34 years on, the pain is still raw for those who lost loved ones.
01:26The grief, the sadness, the loss, the feeling of frustration and anger, they're all very
01:33real.
01:34It never goes until it's resolved, and it won't be resolved until someone is brought
01:40to justice for this.
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