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The officers were murdered in the early hours of the morning after responding to a call about a car abandoned in the middle of Walsh Street.
All 4 men charged with the murders, Victor Peirce, Trevor Pettingill , Anthony Farrell and Peter McEvoy were later aquitted .
Police believe members of a Melbourne Underworld gang had organised the murders. In the two year period up to April 1989 there were eleven fatal shootings by police. The execution style killings of the two police officers was thought by to have been a pay back by prominent members of the Melbourne Underworld.
The police investigation, named the Ty-Eyre task force after the two officers killed, was the biggest investigation Victoria Police had ever undertaken at the time and also the longest running, spanning 895 days. At the height of the investigation, police had hundreds of officers assigned to the task force to invesitigate the murders.
Police investigations revealed the shotgun used to perform the murders was the same weapon used in an attempt to blast open a door at the State Bank in Oak Park in early 1988.
A gang police dubbed The Flemington Crew had robbed at least four Melbourne banks. The robbers bungled the Oak Park robbery and left shotgun shells at the scene. The shells became the single forensic link police had.
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