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Lady in the lake death: ‘I still have nightmares’
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Lady in the lake death: ‘I still have nightmares’

After the young woman’s body was found weighed down in a Canberra lake with more than 60 stab wounds, theories ranged from a twisted love triangle to marauding bikies. Today key players don’t want “to re-live any of this s—”, but her parents hold out fresh hope for answers.

Lucille Butterworth's disappearance remains unsolved. Picture: Supplied
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Tantalising new lead in cold case

A new witness has emerged who could hold answers into Tasmania’s most documented cold case investigation — the disappearance of Tasmanian model Lucille Butterworth.

Meet Queensland’s crack cold case team
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Meet Queensland’s crack cold case team

Two years, thousands of exhibits from across the state, more than $15m in rewards and all the technology of modern-day policing — Queensland’s crack cold case team is solving some of the oldest murder mysteries in Australian history.

Does skull on beach solve Paul’s final moments?

Does skull on beach solve Paul’s final moments?

A panicked Paul Kingsbury called a family member to arrange a meeting in the dead of night just hours before disappearing in 2014. What happened to him after that is a mystery, but a skull that washed up on a Geelong beach could hold some answers.

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Slain model ‘buried in killing fields’

ON one side was a “wannabe gangster” lawyer and his associate the infamous Neddy Smith. On the other a loved up male model trying to reclaim his cash. The lawyer’s main concern? Not to get blood on his wife’s carpet.

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Spookiest moment in missing girl search

A FATHER searches for his daughter. A daughter searches for her sister. When they separately consult different psychics on opposite sides of the world the result is extraordinary — and devastating.

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The hitman and the housewife

FOR years they said a burglar had killed young mum Angie. But it was an ice-cold execution, hardly the work of a bumbling thief. Now Andrew Rule uncovers the shocking secret that has haunted someone for decades. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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A number of family photos featuring Raphael Joseph supplied by Police Media, 3 April, 2014. Previously known as Rafi Tooma and is known as ‘Huss’ or ‘Hussany’ to his family and friends, was last seen getting into the back seat of a late-model, silver sedan on Dartbrook Road, Auburn, around midnight on Friday 21 March 2014 (late Thursday night / early Friday morning). It is believed at least two other men were in the car at the time.

Inside kingpin Raphael Joseph’s brutal murder

THE cops know how big time drug dealer Raphael Joseph spent his last day on Earth and which rival syndicate killed him to avoid paying him. They just need someone to help complete the jigsaw puzzle and claim the $1 million reward.

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Headshot of murder victim  Betty Thomson Shanks whose body was found at Thomas St. Grange  1952.

The day a city lost its innocence

BRISBANE can pinpoint the day it lost its innocence. When the dark shadow of evil darkened the door of every household. When one innocent woman’s name came to signify terror.

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Why have these murders been forgotten?

IT should be one of Melbourne’s most infamous unsolved cases: a mum murdered and her little girl raped and strangled in her bed. So why have we forgotten the Tapp murders? Andrew Rule investigates.

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Son still searching for answers in callous killing

BRODIE Bailey was just six years old when his mother Tamara Smith was slain in regional Queensland in 2002. With her ex-boyfriend acquitted of the killing on appeal, Brodie now wants a coronial inquiry to finally know the truth, writes Chris Clarke.

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