The crime, known as the "Easey Street murders," became Melbourne's longest and most serious cold case, but no one had been arrested until now.

Police had told Suzanne Armstrong’s sister Gayle years ago that they wouldn’t give up on the murder case. So she didn’t either, always hoping a breakthrough might come.

The identity of the 65-year-old man arrested over the "gruesome" and "horrific" Easey Street murders has been revealed, almost 50 years after two women were found violently stabbed to death in Melbourne.

I was hired as a cadet journalist by Max Newton who, a dozen years earlier, had been launch editor of The Australian. He was a big thinker, a big drinker and had gone off whatever spacious rails he usually relied upon to guide his life.

A man has been arrested 47 years years after the alleged brutal murder of two women, which “left a child motherless”, police have confirmed.

Former Collingwood man Perry Kouroumblis has been named as the person arrested in Italy in connection with the Easey St murders, almost half a century after Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were found dead in their Melbourne home.

A man has been arrested in Italy over the notorious murder of two housemates in inner-city Melbourne almost half a century ago.

Suzanne Armstrong, 27, and Susan Bartlett, 28, were found dead in their Easey St home in Collingwood on January 13, 1977. The women, who were last seen alive three days earlier, had been stabbed multiple times.

A man has been arrested in Italy in connection with the notorious Easey St murders, nearly 50 years after Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were found dead in their inner-city Melbourne home.

A man has been arrested in Italy over the 1997 murders of Suzanne Armstrong (right) and Susan Bartlett (left) at their home on Easey Street, Melbourne. (Nine) Auto news: The state where drivers are paying upwards of $10,