Man Pushed Off Cliff for Being Gay

His killer finally confessed to the murder and also to being gay himself.

Rivy Lyon
5 min readJun 19, 2022

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Steve (left) with his brother Scott (right). Source/Steve Johnson

On the 10th of December 1988, Scott Russell Johnson was found dead at the bottom of a cliff at Blue Fish Point in North Head, New South Wales. He was lying naked on jagged rocks at the bottom of a steep slope. His clothes were found in a pile at the edge of the cliff.

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Rivy Lyon

Investigative Journalist | Criminology, Psychology & Sociology B.A. | I’ve loved true crime since Forensic Files was Medical Detectives!