The crime, known as the "Easey Street murders," became Melbourne's longest and most serious cold case, but no one had been arrested until now.

A man has been arrested in Italy over the “Easey St murders” of two women who were stabbed to death in Melbourne almost five decades ago. Suzanne Armstrong, 28, and Susan Bartlett, 27, were found dead in their Collingwood home in January 1977,

Italian news agency ANSA reports that a man suspected of the brutal killing of two women in Australia almost a half-century ago has been arrested in Rome on an international arrest warrant.