Former homicide detective Ron Iddles took home a Logie on Sunday night for his his six-part homicide series that features the murder of a Shepparton teenager.
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Mr Iddles took home a Silver Logie for most outstanding factual or documentary program for his Foxtel series Ron Iddles: The Good Cop.
The first episode of the series re-tells the story of the investigation into the murder of Shepparton teenager Michelle Buckingham, 16.
Miss Buckingham’s badly decomposed body was found on November 7, 1983, on a roadside at Kialla East, 10 days after she had been officially reported missing.
She had been stabbed 19 times.
After remaining dormant for nearly 30 years, Mr Iddles re-opened the cold case when former Shepparton News journalist Tammy Mills started asking questions, leading to a front page story on September 1, 2012, headlined ‘Who killed Michelle?’
In the episode titled ‘‘Michelle Buckingham: Failure is not an option’’, Mr Iddles is filmed walking around Shepparton’s central business district and re-visiting sites important to the case.
Other episodes feature the 1997 murder of Jane Thurgood-Dove shot dead in the driveway of her suburban home in front of her three children and the sexual assault and murder of Bonnie Clarke, 6, in her bed in 1982.
When accepting his Logie on Sunday night, Mr Iddles said the award was for all of the victims who lost their lives.
‘‘Tonight’s award is not for Foxtel, it is not for me, it is for the victims who no longer have a voice,’’ he said.
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