Michelle Bright was a 17-year-old girl who was found raped and murdered in New South Wales, Australia. She was last seen at 12:45 am on 27 February 1999 by a friend who dropped her off in Mayne Street, Gulgong following a friend's 15th birthday party that day. The Minister for Police, Michael Daley announced that the NSW Government offered a reward of $500,000 to solve the murder of Bright, the second-highest reward offered in NSW (the highest being the reward offered for the recovery of William Tyrrell). The police regard Bright's death as a horrific crime.
On 10 August 2020 the reward was raised to $1,000,000. On 11 August 2022, 53-year-old Craig Henry Rumsby, a former neighbour of Bright's, was arrested for her murder, in addition to assault charges against an 18-year-old committed in 1998.
On 30 June 2023, Rumsby was found guilty of the murder. He will be sentenced at a later date. On the 7th of August 2023 Justice Robert Allan Hulme sentenced Craig Rumsby to 32 years' jail, with a non-parole period of 24 years.