<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A rare $1 million reward is being offered to help solve the 1981 </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/cold-case" rel="" target="" title="cold case"><span>cold case</span></a><span> sex assault and murder of a 25-year-old </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/melbourne" rel="" target="" title="Melbourne"><span>Melbourne</span></a><span> woman.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Haroula Kipouridou's body was discovered in a jammed lift about 2.30am on July 3, 1981, about 30 minutes after work friends dropped her to her mother's home in Richmond's commission flats.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Detective acting Sergeant Leigh Prados said the young singer had been bashed, strangled and left on the floor semi-naked.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/crews-recover-bodies-of-9-backcountry-skiers-days-after-california-avalanche/014e5c82-ce3a-464d-92a6-8d057e0647ce"><strong><span>Crews recover bodies of 9 backcountry skiers days after California avalanche</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"She had been violently attacked – whoever did this did it with a high level of brutality," Prados said today.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The cold case detective is determined to solve the 45-year-old cold case for Kipouridou's siblings, who are desperate for answers.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The people who are left behind, who loved Haroula, that's why we do it," Prados said.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/cold-case-haroula-kipouridous-police-offer-1m-reward-to-solve-1981-cold-case-sex-assault-and-murder/86276d0d-774b-479c-8759-11be01a9d7a8" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It's one of several cases police are confident they'll be able to solve.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We have families out there who have lost loved ones who expect and want to know their investigations is still being looked at," Detective Inspector Dean Thomas said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Several suspects have been interviewed and police are not ruling out links to other similar crimes of the era.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But time is of the essence.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/chris-baghsarian-police-probe-burntout-car-as-search-for-missing-sydney-grandfather-continues/3faa5a44-1920-4937-9a39-3574aed595f6" rel="" target="" title="Police probe burnt-out car as search for missing grandfather Chris Baghsarian continues"><strong><span>Police probe burnt-out car as search for missing grandfather Chris Baghsarian continues</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's an appeal to a person's conscience that after 45 years as people get older and we approach our own inevitable end, there may be witnesses who need to reflect on things they know, they saw, they heard or they were told, and to please come forward," Prados said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It really is a case of now or never."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 25-year-old was engaged and working as a singer at a Greek tavern on Gertrude Street in Fitzroy at the time of her murder.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>While the business no longer exists, investigators are hoping members of the public can cast their minds back to 1981, urging anyone who interacted with her on the night of her death to come forward.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We will never, ever, stop trying to find you," Prados said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We 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