[PART 1 of 2] When a 27-year old man named Scott Johnson was found amongst the rocks along a beach called Manly Cove, authorities believed Scott jumped from some nearby cliffs and ruled his death a suicide. But his older brother Steve refused to believe it. Scott was a brilliant and admired math genius with everything to live for. Steve soon grows suspicious of those closest to Scott and becomes determined to prove Scott might've been a victim of foul play. But how to prove a murder that police say never happened?

This is part 1 of a two-part series drawn from Steve Johnson's recent memoir "A Thousand Miles from Care: A Thirty-Year True-Crime Quest for Justice" and an October 13, 2025 New Yorker feature by writer Eren Arbey "Letters from Australia."

Court TV personality Nancy Grace's impassioned treatise on the Ellen Greenberg case: What Happened to Ellen? A Miscarriage of Justice

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