Accused Easey Street killer Perry Kouroumblis was linked to the decades-old cold case by a DNA sample taken from a car he owned in the 1970s.

Kouroumblis faced Melbourne Magistrates’ Court in person on Wednesday for the first day of a committal hearing, where evidence against him is being tested for the first time.

Susan Bartlett (top) and Suzanne Armstrong were killed in their Easey Street, Collingwood, home in 1977. Credit: Stephen Kiprillis

Police say DNA tested in 2018 linked Kouroumblis to the murder of two women in Collingwood in 1977, eventually leading to his arrest last year.

His lawyers attempted to keep details of the alleged DNA evidence against him suppressed but were unsuccessful after a fight from media outlets, including this masthead.

Defence barrister Dermot Dann

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