SHE was a young suburban mum who was making birthday plans when she was gunned down in her home in a brutal, and still unsolved, 1984 murder.
Maryanna Lanciana had no apparent links to Melbourne's underworld, and yet her cold-case killing has been connected to two other deaths at the height of the city's gangland murders.
Police believe the people responsible for Ms Lanciana's murder are also behind the shooting deaths of two minor gangland players in 1999 and 2001.
Rewards totalling $3 million have been posted in a bid to bring those responsible to justice.
"I'm not going to go into detail on people that we regard as suspects, but I can say that we believe there is a single group responsible for all three," homicide squad Detective Inspector John Potter told reporters on Friday.
"While the intentions of the group with respect to each (victim) may vary, we say it is the same group of people."
Ms Lanciana, 23, was shot dead at her home late on July 2 or early on July 3 in 1984.
Her 23-month-old son was in the house when she was shot and her husband was away for the night.
Friends who visited her about 8pm on July 2 told police she was in high spirits and making plans to celebrate her coming birthday.
There were no signs of forced entry to the home.
Police now believe her death was the first of three murders perpetrated by the same group.
They posted a $1 million reward on Friday for information on Ms Lanciana's murder, in addition to the $1 million rewards offered in relation to the 1999 murder of Dimitrios Belias and the 2001 killing of George Germanos.
"I would say they were all planned. Two of the murders, the men, were murdered in street scenarios - both shot," Det Insp Potter said.
"Maryanna was murdered in her own home - shot. All three have the hallmarks of organised planning and a degree of intent."
Mr Belias, 38, was lured to an underground car park on St Kilda Road in Melbourne and killed by a single gunshot to the head in September 1999.
Mr Germanos, a 41-year-old part-time security guard with known associations with Melbourne underworld identities, was shot in the head and chest from close range in a park in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale in March 2001.
Police have a number of suspects, and they are working with Interpol on a related missing-person case.
A former business partner of Mr Belias, Milorad Dapcevic, is understood to have fled overseas.
He became a missing person in 1999 after Mr Belias' murder and appears to have left Australia in 2002.
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