Over the years we’ve welcomed the likes of granny serial killer John Wayne Glover, brutal gangster Nik ‘The Russian’ Radev and the monster who killed little Sheree Beasley. Australia really is a sucker for importing bad guys, writes Andrew Rule.
EVERYONE’S heard of Lindy Chamberlain, but what about the two men jailed over deaths a notorious serial killer had confessed to, or another hanged on faulty forensic evidence? When Australian courts mess up it can take years to right the wrong.
When the Moran brothers met up with an up-and-coming drug dealer in a Gladstone Park reserve to talk “business”, they made a mistake that would cost both of them — and many others — their lives.
The former boyfriend of a rock star’s murdered nanny hopes a new $1 million reward will help police solve the cold case — and insists he was not involved in her death.
EVER heard of The Lipstick Killer, Mr Stinky or The Zodiac Killer? Here’s the horrifying truth about how they and other killers got their names.
THE murder victim was preserved in formalin and put on public display as police struggled to identify her. Ten years later they had finally snared a killer, but did they have the right victim?
FEAR. Hunger. Desperation. Shame. Eight starving escapees lost in the bush, picking each other off for food. It happened in Australia.
A PREACHER turned gentlemanly bank robber, hanged as a murderous bushranger, Captain Moonlite had another side — his love for a young male gang member.
TALES of The Brownout Strangler terrified citizens of Melbourne in the 1940s, as a soldier with a twisted fascination with female voices was terrorising women. This is the story of his last murder.
AS miners rushed to South Australia’s newly discovered goldfields one wild and lawless place was desperate for a permanent police station – but drunken goldminers was not the biggest threat the officers faced.
ANCHORS, flags and ships may be trendy tattoos for hipsters and AFL stars but it was convicts transported to Australia who sported some of the country’s original ink.
THE Sport of Kings has always had a reputation for rogues and scandal but notorious horseman James ‘Grafter’ Kingsley’s audacious scam at Sydney racetracks was worthy of a Hollywood movie.
THE secret behind the murder of a cricket star by his alleged lover in 1920 had its beginnings in an attack by a lunatic seven years earlier.
WELCOME to the dark side of the roaring twenties, a golden age of jazz, booze, fast cars and for an entrepreneurial crook, Sydney was a villain’s paradise.
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