In October 2018, 24-year-old Toya accordingly set out along Wonghetti Beach with her Husky Cross Indy and vanished.

The next morning, her father found her body half buried in the dunes.

Her throat had been slashed, and she had sustained dozens of stab wounds.

Her dog Inby survived, tied so tightly to a nearby tree that the dog could barely move.

The violence sent shockwaves through the region this crime took place in in Queensland.

In particular, the town that Toya was from, Cairns.

Residents marched against violence toward women.

Vehicles carried Toya's name on their bumpers. People pleaded for anything that might help

police understand who had done this. Within days, detectives focused on a single individual.

Rajvindar Singh, a 41-year-old former nurse who had been living in Innisfail with his wife and

three children. He and Toya had never met before. Yet in the days after her killing, he abruptly

fled to India, leaving his career, his friends, and even his family behind. After that, years passed.

A historic $1 million reward brought the case back into motion,

and tipsters finally traced Singh to a Sikh temple in Delhi, India in late 2022. He did not

fight extradition. Authorities returned him to Cannes in early 2023 where he repeated,

I did not kill the woman, even as he was charged with murder.

When I last brought you an update in this case,

the first trial of Rajvinder Singh ended without a verdict,

so the entire case returned to the Cannes Supreme Court in November 2025

for a four-week retrial before Justice Lincoln Crowley.

Prosecutors arrived with a heavily forensic presentation, built across more than 80 witnesses.

Detectives, scientists, witnesses, and even Toya's friends and family took the stand.

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