Inside the mind of a mild-mannered monster
Robert Arthur Selby Lowe was a husband, father, cricket coach and church elder. But behind the facade, he was devious, damaged and dangerous.
Behind The Scenes
Organised crims use drug money to buy Aussie homes
Criminal syndicates are using dirty money to launder through property purchases, adding to the overheated Australian housing market.
‘Higher on ice’: Drug cooks make new ‘nasty meth’
Cops are seeing a new ‘cheap, nasty’ version of ice, which is said to be from organised crims working together, like syndicates did in Operation Ironside.
‘It was burning, there were human remains and letters to Qld’
The MH17 crash site looked like a war zone — and there were items that left Charles Miranda stunned when he arrived. WARNING: Graphic
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Public victory as top cop lifts secrecy
Just days after pledging a new era in transparency and ending red tape new Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw has proven true to his word.
Geelong’s grisly bones mystery being uncovered
Mystery surrounds the grisly discovery of bones at a beach and home in Geelong’s north. CHAD VAN ESTROP goes behind the curtain at the state’s forensic institute to peek at the intriguing work that aims to identify these bones.
From ‘time bomb’ to ‘role model’
The reasons a Darwin axe murderer described as a ‘time bomb likely to offend again violently, even after many years’ could soon be released from jail can now be revealed for the first time.
City held to ransom by youth gangs
In this Queensland city kids as young as eight stealing cars, and there are carjackings, break-ins, property crime and assaults by offenders ridiculously young.
Killing fields: Warren Brown visits Belanglo State Forest
For anyone who lived through the 1990s, the mention of Belanglo State Forest revives the nightmare that is Ivan Milat. The Daily Telegraph’s Warren Brown visited the forest recently — and “felt considerable trepidation”.
Inside the mind of a serial killer: ‘He was bad not mad’
Ivan Milat was bad — not mad, according to Australia’s leading forensic psychiatrist Rod Milton. He also found the serial killer murdered for the power it gave him over his victims. This is his chilling insight into the mind of Milat.
Prison sex probe’s explosive revelations
A task force into improper relationships between inmates and guards at NSW prisons has uncovered 14 sexual relationships and dozens of cases where the behind-bars interaction “was intimate”.
Dead bikie’s name surfaced in Tesic trial
Before being shot dead Comanchero bikie Shane Ross fought hard to overturn a prison sentence – that stemmed from allegations made during the trial of ice kingpin Ivan Tesic – that marred an otherwise “not at all bad” criminal history.
Our longest-serving cop calls it a day
Retiring as the longest-serving police officer in SA — and the nation — Detective Senior Sergeant Sid Thomas speaks about how he helped track down the “postcard bandit”, notorious rapist James Beauregard-Smith and, more recently, the murderer of Japanese student Megumi Suzuki.
Week of hell for state’s prison guards
Queensland prison guards are living on edge after a spate of sickening attacks this week. It comes after four assaults on prison staff last month, allegedly sparked by a “weak” punishment handed out to a violent inmate.
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