Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Tancevski, Max

Murder victim whose body was discovered by a fisherman on the Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin) on 11 August 1994. He had last been seen on 11 January 1993 at Newtown, but it was not until 2018 that his body was identified. Due to the way his body had been treated, he was known colloquially in the press as 'Rack Man', and in formal investigations as 'John Doe'. The circumstances around his death are unknown.

Milestone
Born
13 May 1956
Died
11 Jan 1993
Name
Colloquial
Rack man
Colloquial
Doe, John

John Doe 1994

,
2021

The John Doe case was a landmark missing person case for the New South Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Glebe Morgue when an unidentified body was found in the Hawkesbury River in August 1994.