Attempts to seduce women on the outside, heartbreak over the death of his mum, a broken romance and a growing sense of foreboding as the day of his murder edges closer are revealed in astonishing letters penned by underworld killer Carl Williams.
He wanted to be Police Commissioner, but when life as a cop fell apart he was a Mr Fix-It in Sydney’s underbelly, a money smuggler and a jailbird. Yet Charles Staunton reckons one title stands throughout — he’s a good bloke.
It took a spray of Luminol to show the blood stains on the seemingly spotless couch where Narelle Fraser had sat to question Tony Serrano, but it was what investigators found next that sickened the senior detective.
When parents Stan and Noelle Richardson drove by a car parked by the river they simply thought someone was fishing. It was only after their murdered daughter’s body was found at the spot they realised they’d likely passed her killer.
‘AHHH!’ screamed Senior Constable Moran, the third shot tearing into his testicle. ‘Jesus save me! My balls — he hit me in the bloody balls!’ It was 1862 and buckshot was flying in Australia’s biggest-ever gold heist.
THEY were two rookie cops making their first big bust and determined that the police ‘Glory Boys’ wouldn’t edge them out — but in 1980s’ policing there was so much more to worry about.
MOST killers are men, but these two women showed that it’s possible for women to commit acts of true evil, writes Tim Watson-Munro in an extract from his new book.
TIM Watson-Munro has spent much of his career with murderers, sexual predators, hit men and those who kill in fits of rage, and the criminal psychologist admits he knows more than is good for him when it comes to the dark side of human nature.
FROM sadistic initiation rites to the gang rape of women psychologist Tim Watson-Munro has heard it all from jailed bikies.
FOR the past year, The Courier-Mail has tracked down witnesses, statements and documents relating to the death of young scientist Jeffrey Brooks. These are the pictures that tell the story.
WHETHER pointing guns at police and Armaguard vans in Melbourne or busting out of prison, Christopher Binse is as brazen as criminals come. Here’s why “Badness” is one of our baddest crooks.
No newspaper editor alive could resist a headline like ‘Lesbian Prostitutes Decapitate and Dismember Transvestite Pro-wrestling Truck Driver’. Beneath it all, however, the tale is even sadder than it is twisted.
THEY were modern-day bushrangers. But after eight years on the run, father and son fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco were finally captured at a remote property in central NSW. Police soon discovered the body of the property’s caretaker decaying in a shed. Read this chilling extract from Nino Bucci’s new book.
ANITA Cobby had been dead for more than two and half years, yet John was still having nightmares about her, still racked with guilt that he hadn’t been there to protect her.
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