Could Martin Bryant have been stopped before Port Arthur?
Sometimes it’s easier to forget the past, especially if it’s painful. But Denham Hitchcock argues we must listen to new evidence about Martin Bryant.
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Shock Sydney Lawyer X claim made in Hamzy case
A court case involving jailed underworld figure Bassam Hamzy has heard Sydney has its own legal scandal involving a Lawyer X.
After 73 years, Somerton Man is finally exhumed
The unknown Somerton Man has been exhumed and placed into a new coffin to be transported for forensic testing. Police say his remains are in “reasonable” condition for DNA extraction.
‘Brett would have quit the force after what’s happened’
Slain cop Brett Forte pledged his life to serve and protect, but his family say he would have been disillusioned with events after his death.
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Public victory as top cop lifts secrecy
Just days after pledging a new era in transparency and ending red tape new Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw has proven true to his word.
Geelong’s grisly bones mystery being uncovered
Mystery surrounds the grisly discovery of bones at a beach and home in Geelong’s north. CHAD VAN ESTROP goes behind the curtain at the state’s forensic institute to peek at the intriguing work that aims to identify these bones.
From ‘time bomb’ to ‘role model’
The reasons a Darwin axe murderer described as a ‘time bomb likely to offend again violently, even after many years’ could soon be released from jail can now be revealed for the first time.
City held to ransom by youth gangs
In this Queensland city kids as young as eight stealing cars, and there are carjackings, break-ins, property crime and assaults by offenders ridiculously young.
Killing fields: Warren Brown visits Belanglo State Forest
For anyone who lived through the 1990s, the mention of Belanglo State Forest revives the nightmare that is Ivan Milat. The Daily Telegraph’s Warren Brown visited the forest recently — and “felt considerable trepidation”.
Inside the mind of a serial killer: ‘He was bad not mad’
Ivan Milat was bad — not mad, according to Australia’s leading forensic psychiatrist Rod Milton. He also found the serial killer murdered for the power it gave him over his victims. This is his chilling insight into the mind of Milat.
Prison sex probe’s explosive revelations
A task force into improper relationships between inmates and guards at NSW prisons has uncovered 14 sexual relationships and dozens of cases where the behind-bars interaction “was intimate”.
Dead bikie’s name surfaced in Tesic trial
Before being shot dead Comanchero bikie Shane Ross fought hard to overturn a prison sentence – that stemmed from allegations made during the trial of ice kingpin Ivan Tesic – that marred an otherwise “not at all bad” criminal history.
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