Toby Moran News Today

Western Australias highest ranking cop has shed some light on the bombshell investigation into the respected homicide detective who led the search for Cleo Smith last year.

Detective Senior Sergeant Cameron Blaine has been involved in some of the biggest Australian cases of recent times and was one of four officers on the scene when four-year-old Cleo Smith was rescued.

A last minute application means the bail bid by the German-born surfer who police allege suffocated girlfriend Simone Strobel in 2005 has been delayed.

Tobias Suckfuell Moran is charged with murdering his former partner Simone Strobel - who was allegedly suffocated with a pillow or plastic bag in Lismore, northern NSW, in 2005.

The German-born surfer charged with murdering his girlfriend 17 years ago suffocated her in their campervan, stripped her body naked and with the help of others, dumped it, police will allege.

The German-born surfer charged with murdering his girlfriend 17 years ago suffocated her in their campervan, stripped her body naked and with the help of others, dumped it, police will allege.

A German backpacker told her dad being in Australia was a dream come true just one day before she was brutally murdered.

The sister of accused murderer Tobias Moran is being sought in Germany over an alleged cover-up following the smothering death of Simon Strobel in the NSW coastal town of Lismore 17 years ago.

Simone Strobel, 25, went missing near a Lismore caravan park before her decomposing body was found six days later.

Tobias Moran led a charmed life as the surfer boy husband of a wealthy Perth woman in her luxury beach shack where police handcuffed and deported him back to Sydney charged with murder.