As a crook, Rocky Iaria made a good fruit picker. And had he been jailed over a brazen crime against a rich tomato grower, he’d probably be alive today. Instead, years after he vanished, Rocky’s body was found somewhere completely unexpected.
Notorious gangster Neddy Smith’s killing fields have yielded another victim after confirmation remains found in the Kurnell sand dunes are those of male model Mark Johnston.
Colin Woodhouse was driving home from his shift as a food and beverage manager at Myer Pacific Fair, when he stopped to help a man standing next to a ‘broken down’ car.
In 1944 a man was jailed for the horrific murder of the “Pyjama Girl”. But startling evidence suggests police got it wildly wrong, and now the woman’s identity – and her killer – may never be known.
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Two detectives injured in a helicopter crash while investigating the 1978 Spear Creek murders have spoken of the horrifying moment the aircraft plummeted to the ground. LISTEN TO EPISODE ONE OF THE PODCAST.
The prime suspect in three South Australian cold-case murders has been jailed in Victoria after being convicted of violence and theft offences — a similar modus operandi in each of the unsolved killings.
Australia’s highest court will not hear a bid to have tried for murdering three Aboriginal Bowraville children nearly three decades ago, but their families won’t give up while the killer is still “on the loose”.
After waiting almost two decades, the family of slain Queensland mother Patricia Riggs has finally learned the fate of her killer, Ian Edmund Riggs.
A mother and her boyfriend at the time have been charged with child homicide over the 2008 death of toddler Angela Bannister in a cold case breakthrough for Homicide Squad detectives.
A man has been arrested and extradited to Queensland in connection with the investigation into the 2007 death of Jay Brogden.
The mother of Joanne Ratcliffe, one of two young girls abducted from the Adelaide Oval during a football match in one of Australia’s most compelling ongoing mysteries, has died.
As major crime detectives close in on the killer of Whyalla businessman Peter Seaford, his partner has revealed she heard his last words before he succumbed to his shocking injuries.
An Olympian and Aussie rules player was the first Australian to crack the NFL. But his colourful life ended in a gruesome ambush murder that’s never been solved.
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