A coronial investigation is being reopened into the death of a Melbourne woman whose body was found in a creek in 2011, with new evidence suggesting she might have been strangled.

Louisa Ioannidis's body was found fully clothed and in a pink robe at the Darebin Creek in Reservoir on October 11, 2011, in a death that was initially deemed non-suspicious.

In January 2014, coroner Paresa Spanos ruled the 24-year-old's death was "consistent with drowning".

They found the evidence did not support a finding that that anyone else was involved in her death but noted the woman had been in a volatile relationship with her then-partner.

Nearly 12 years on, the same coroner has set aside her own findings and ordered the investigation be reopened.

It comes after new evidence emerged and extensive l

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