Australian society was shocked when the suspect in the murder of a girl 21 years ago turned out to be a'neighbor'.

According to The Australian National Daily Theostralian on the 12th (local time), the NSW state police have urgently arrested a suspect in the murder of 17-year-old Michelle Bright, a 17-year-old girl in a gulpong 300km northwest of Sydney in 199. I did.

Bright went out to attend a friend's birthday party on the night of February 27, 1999, and was found dead on the side of a road one kilometer from his home three days after he went missing.

This incident, which shocked a small city with a population of 2,500, fell into a labyrinth without catching the culprit despite a massive investigation at the time.

NSW police, who were recently re-investigating the case, spurred the investigation with the bereaved family on the 10th, raising the bounty for the perpetrator from the previous 500,000 Australian dollars to 1 million dollars (about 850 million won).

One day after paying a $1 million bounty, former slaughterhouse employee Craig Rumsby, 53, was arrested as a leading suspect and charged with sexual assault and murder.

The police said the arrest was made by comprehensively analyzing the reports of citizens, the result of genetic identification of the vicinity of the incident, the history of the suspect's sexual assault, and the motive of the crime.

Rumsby lived in the neighborhood just two houses from the victim's house, and is known to have acquaintances with the girl's mother.

He even posted a post on his Facebook page saying, "It's sad that the killer hasn't been caught. Michelle was like my sister."

The victim's mother said, "I waited crying for the news that the killer had been caught for 21 years," and "someone has responded to my crying," the newspaper reported.