Victoria Police offering $1m over unsolved death

Victoria Police are offering a $1 million reward to help solve an attack on an elderly Melbourne woman who died after being struck from behind in broad daylight.

Leah Buck, 79, was walking down a street in Williamstown in the middle of the afternoon on September 20, 1994, when she was hit from behind.

A passing motorist found her bleeding and disoriented, with her shopping trolley turned over on its side and her purse and handbag missing - never to be recovered.

Mrs Buck was taken to hospital with a serious head injury and died the next day.

The post mortem examination revealed she died as a result of her injuries sustained from the robbery.

Homicide Squad Detective Sergeant Sol Solomon said Mrs Buck had been going about her business when she was struck out of nowhere.

"To leave an elderly woman on her knees on the side of the road that had been hit and or knocked over with such brute force that her trolley was overturned and she was ultimately killed is just shocking," Det Serg Solomon said.

Victoria Police are seeking information on the incident that took place on Dover Road twenty years ago.