DNA blitz throws open hundreds of cold cases
Human bones found in back yards, bushland and even the bellies of sharks will be analysed in a DNA blitz that could lead to criminal investigations.
Behind The Scenes
‘Reckless’: China blasts Australia
China has slammed Australia as ‘reckless’ and intentionally provocative, in response to Australia’s declaration that China’s territorial claims over the South China Seas are illegal.
Bikie walked into Hells Angels clubhouse and never walked out
Nestled in a quiet industrial estate, the Hells Angels Thomastown clubhouse has been the focus of intense law enforcement interest for more than two decades. Now police suspect bikie apprentice Kerry Giakoumis walked in one day and was carried out the next.
Aussie prison mum hires Corby’s bodyguard
Schapelle Corby’s bodyguard is in a race against time to travel to Bali to help escort fellow Australian prisoner Sara Connor to freedom.
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Truth behind crime TV’s hits and myths
TV viewers can’t get enough of the clever crime-solving methods employed by fictional forensic experts, but what’s the reality for those chasing the clues in real life?
The women who are a force to reckon with
LOREN Truter has a seven-month-old baby. But it hasn’t stopped her tackling violent and armed offenders as a member of Victoria Police’s Critical Incident Response Unit.
What brought a serial killer to tears
UNSEEN letters from Ivan Milat have revealed who his tears and sympathies are for — and it’s not the men and women he slaughtered and dumped in bush graves.
‘What you see on TV is not reality’
SENTENCED to seven years jail for a white-collar crime, Sydney mum Victoria Schembri was bashed, threatened and harassed for sex — and that’s just the first day she was an inmate.
The woman who reads skeletons
WHEN a charred, headless torso was found in southeast Queensland in 2013, there were no clues about who the person was. So police turned to the “bones lady” in the hope she could help. She did.
Letter-writing ladies in love with Ivan
AS a balding, ageing, convicted serial killer sentenced to live out his life in a sunless cell, Ivan Milat has absolutely nothing going for him — but that doesn’t stop women writing to him.
How sick obsession led to dancer’s murder
RACHEL Barber had everything going for her — she was a beautiful talented dancer with a handsome boyfriend. That’s why she was murdered.
Black widow killers spun webs of evil
An Ice Princess who seduced a teen to kill. A wrestler with an iron grip on her lover. And a “dancing assassin”. Their shocking betrayals of loved ones came at the ultimate price.
Speargun killer confesses: A real madness washed over me
WHEN John Myles Sharpe realised he had been exposed as the cold-hearted killer in of one of Australia’s most gruesome and callous double killings, he wept like a baby.
Dumb and Dumber robber tells all
FOR ex-con Anthony Prince, surviving his four-year term in the US prison system was all about respect – something that was always going to be pushing uphill for a guy famous as one of the stupidest crims in history.
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