Under cross-examination, Helen White denied she had been aware of a AU$1 million reward for information on Johnson’s murder when she reported her former husband to police in 2019. “I said, ‘It is if you chased him,’” Helen White told the court. “The dumb (expletive) ran off the cliff.” “It’s not my fault,” Scott White allegedly replied. Helen White said she read a newspaper report in 2008 about Johnson’s death and asked her husband if he was responsible. White’s former wife Helen White told the court that her then-husband “bragged” to their children of beating gay men at the clifftop well-known for gay meetups.
White was charged in 2020 and police say the reward will likely be collected. His Boston-based brother Steve Johnson maintained pressure for further investigation and offered his own reward of 1 million Australian dollars ($704,000) for information.
