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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Petlee Peter

'We just want to find out what happened': a family's three-decade search for answers

On the morning of May 9, 65-year-old John Tracey sat in the garden of his NSW home and fondly remembered his little brother, Neil.

The quest to find out what really happened to Neil hit a bizarre roadblock with the discovery of his case file being sealed by the Queensland State Archives until 2054. Picture by Karleen Minney

It was exactly 37 years ago that young Canberran Neil Tracey was found dead in a house in the Brisbane suburb of New Farm. In 1989, the landmark Fitzgerald Inquiry was exposing deep-seated corruption within the Queensland Police while authorities declared Neil's death to be from "natural causes" despite what his family says were numerous red flags.

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