'I have nothing to do with her death'
Penny May Hill was killed 24 years ago, but police have a new person of interest after reexamining evidence taken from the crime.
The daughter of Janette and Felix, Penny was just 20 years old when she died from injuries sustained during a brutal beating.
It was a mysterious crime that no one has been held responsible for.
Detective Sergeant Jason Darcy heads up the unsolved homicide unit in central western NSW and has been looking for the one clue that everyone else missed.
Police have traces of male DNA from Penny’s clothes and hope that new technology may soon enable them to identify who it belongs to.
They hope it will finally lead to an arrest.
"Whoever did this they’ve been sitting on it for a long time," Mr Darcy said.
"They’ve been sitting for yeah a long time it’d have to be eating them away. You know it’d be eating away and they gotta be looking over their shoulder all the time thinking that one they’re going to get a knock at the door and they’ll be arrested for this matter."
Penny had moved from Narrabri to the small NSW country town of Coolah to start a job as a nanny.
Three days later was found near a rusted gate on the edge of a paddock, barely alive. She died in hospital two weeks later.
Shane Williams was Penny’s boyfriend when she died, they had been dating for three weeks when she got the job as a live-in Nanny in Coolah.
Williams is still a person of interest in the case, but he maintains he was nowhere near Coolah on the night Penny was bashed.
At the time he said he was in Armidale, had gone to church in the early evening and then went home to his parent’s house.
"I can’t tell you where I was to be honest. To be honest I know I was within the Armidale district. That’s all," He said.
"I have nothing to do with her death at all in any way. If I did I wouldn’t be here now. I really wouldn’t be staring into your eyes telling you that."
Watch the full interview in the video above.
