Ross Warren was a young journalist working for a regional TV station when he disappeared more than three decades ago after a night out with friends at Sydney's Oxford Street.
The 25-year-old worked as a newsreader for Channel WIN4 in Wollongong and it's now believed he was killed on July 22, 1989 - a victim of the gay gang murders.
His body has never been found and his fate is one of three to be scrutinised on Wednesday by the NSW special inquiry into LGBTQI hate crimes.
John Russell and Gilles Mattaini also died or disappeared near Marks Park in Sydney's Tamarama or Bondi area in the mid to late 1980s.
Mr Mattaini was a 27-year-old Frenchman who lived with his partner in Bondi and was last seen walking there in September 1985.
Mr Russell was a barman at the Bronte Bowling Club who lived with his brother Peter at Bondi.
On the evening of November 22, 1989, he went for drinks with friends but, after leaving the Bondi Hotel about 11pm, was never seen alive again.
The inquiry into LGBTQI hate crimes has been examining the unsolved deaths of 88 gay men between 1970 and 2010.
The 11th block of hearings in the long-running inquiry concludes this week.
The commissioner, Supreme Court Justice John Sackar, will deliver a final report in August.
