article_snippet: A 40-year murder mystery has taken another dramatic twist with sensational new claims Victim's husband confessed to the triple killing on his deathbed.
article_snippet: The case has become one of Australia's most enduring cold-case mysteries.
article_snippet: But a major break may have come in The case recenty, when a witness to McCulkin's alleged confession gave a statement to police.
article_snippet: Police are trying to reconcile inconsistencies between the supposed confession and the other clues in the investigation and the conclusions detectives have reached previously.
article_snippet: McCulkin, a petty gangster, reportedly took up with another woman just two months before his former partner and another woman girls disappeared.
article_snippet: his was initially a suspect, but was later cleared of being involved in the crime.
article_snippet: Billy McCulkin (right) outside court was told the motive for the killings was allegedly that Barbara McCulkin knew too much about the gang’s involvement in the Torino’s Nightclub fire, according to the Courier Mail.
article_snippet: Crown prosecutor David Meredith argued Barbara’s loose lips were proof of motive for murder.
highlights_snippet: Victim's husband allegedly confessed to murders on Victim's husband deathbed .
  
highlights_snippet: Bill McCulkin had  been cleared by police  of killing wife and children .
  
highlights_snippet: McCulkin's alleged confessors does not match with police investigation .
  