Unsolved killings: The ones that got away in 2019
Despite a nearly 100 per cent clean-up rate for murders in 2019, Queensland detectives continue to be frustrated by these unsolved cases.
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Horrific crimes that shocked Australia in 2019
A woman’s body set on fire after being raped and murdered, and another found in a chest freezer in an apartment. These are some of the horrific crimes that shocked the nation in 2019.
Cop’s solemn vow to Novy’s family
Her husband might be behind bars for her manslaughter, but Gold Coast mother Novy Chardon has never been found. And the lead investigator on her case has a message for her grieving family.
‘Shameful impact’: Bali Nine smuggler’s desperate plea
He has spent 14 years behind bars for his role in the doomed Bali Nine drug-smuggling plot. This is the letter that Scott Rush hopes will deliver his freedom.
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How Comancheros boss rose to the top
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Standover man who ‘ran Eastern Suburbs’ back in trouble
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Victim shared shooting fears before death
A CHURCH leader has revealed that a shooting victim told him weeks before his death of a terrifying encounter in which a “warning shot’’ was fired over his head but police weren’t interested in the information.
How a cop faced off with a hitman — and survived
NOT many people survive receiving the Last Rites from a priest. Even fewer face a stone cold underworld killer’s gun and live to tell the tale. But Melbourne cop Michael Pratt did.
How the Bandidos bikie gang was born
BORN from the ashes of their former Comanchero colours, the Bandidos have carved a bloody history of public shootings, tit-for-tat violence and brutal acts of retribution.
Meet the Bandidos: The characters behind the tatts
MEET the characters behind the bikes, brutality and tattoos. They’ve been the major players in the Bandidos motorcycle club, who live by the motto “we are the people our parents warned us about”.
How Comanchero became Australia’s most vicious bikies
MORE than just outlaws or gangsters, the Comanchero have climbed the ranks to become the country’s most powerful bikie gang. But it was a violation of their most sacred law that sparked Australia’s most infamous bikie battle — and the tit-for-tat-violence that followed.
Why Jeffrey couldn’t have shot himself
NEW tests done at a world-class ballistics site have found a man who police believe “accidentally’’ killed himself with a shotgun could not have been holding the weapon.
The killers who thought they got away with murder
THEY’RE the serial killers, child murderers and wife killers who thought they had done everything to cover their tracks, but they were very wrong. Here’s how the heinous acts of these evil murderers were exposed.
US expert shoots down QLD police theory
AN international expert in gunshot wound trajectory has decimated the police theory that a young scientist “accidentally’’ shot himself. NEW PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW
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