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Jessie Grace Lauder (right) with a relative.

Man charged following four-decade probe into alleged double rape of grandmother

The arrest is a major breakthrough into the investigation of the alleged rape of Newport grandmother Jessie Grace Lauder in 1981 and 1983.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola and Angus Delaney

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Lorrin Whitehead disappeared in 2013. The image on the right is a digital depiction of what she may look like today.

New search launched for woman who vanished 12 years ago

Police are scouring a private property outside Geelong after gathering intelligence that Lorrin Whitehead’s remains may be located there.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Police are offering a $500,000 reward to solve the alleged murder of William Rogers.

‘Callous and cowardly’: Hunt for killer of taxi driver shot down in cold blood

William Rogers was shot in the chest and left for dead in Sydney’s inner west. Police are offering a $500,000 reward for information to help catch his alleged killer.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Firefighters work in the ashes of the Oakdale Guest House, a Queenslander-style residential boarding house at 5 Milford Street, Ipswich, Queensland, which was destroyed because of an intense fire that broke out at 3am on Saturday, December 29, 1990.

$500,000 reward offered over cold case blaze

Twenty-eight people were living in an Ipswich boarding house when it burnt down in a suspected 1990 arson attack.

  • William Davis
Christian Brueckner arrives at the Landgericht Braunschweig state courthouse for one of the final days of his trial for sex crimes.

Madeleine McCann prime suspect acquitted of separate charges

Convicted paedophile and rapist Christian Brückner could be released from prison next year after he was acquitted of separate rape charges by a controversial German judge.

  • Rob Hyde

‘The consequences are much greater’: John Silvester on the Easey Street secret he kept

The Age crime columnist unpacks the major breakthrough in the notorious Easey Street cold case – and takes us behind the scenes of the long police operation that led to it.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
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Motor racing legend Peter Brock.

Misinformation falsely linked motor racing legend to Easey Street murder probe

Unfounded tip-offs wasted police time, wrongly pointing the finger at dozens of men in the case, including late motor racing legend Peter Brock.

  • Cameron Houston
Perry Kouroumblis, a 65-year-old dual citizen of Australia and Greece, was arrested in Italy.

Easey Street suspect unmasked as link to victims emerges

Perry Kouroumblis, now 65, is suspected of killing two women in the 1977 Easey Street murders – and one of Melbourne’s oldest schools links him to the victims.

  • John Silvester, Sherryn Groch, Ashleigh McMillan and Hannah Kennelly
Amber Haigh, centre, and Anne and Robert Geeves.

Mystery endures as couple acquitted of missing teen’s murder

Robert and Anne Geeves were found not guilty of murdering Amber Haigh, 19, whose disappearance has haunted a rural town for more than two decades.

  • Michaela Whitbourn and The Visual Stories Team
Denise Govendir was allegedly murdered by her husband.

Husband arrested after quarter of a century of suspicion in Sydney cold case

Something about Aaron Govendir’s story didn’t quite add up for police investigating his wife’s murder in their Dover Heights home. He has been charged with killing her.

  • Riley Walter and Jessica McSweeney

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