Drug rings, violence, kidnappings – Brisbane is under attack as three of Australia’s most notorious bikie gangs stake their claim in the city’s criminal underbelly. But they may have met their match, with a crack team of cops launching an all-out counter-attack against the invaders.
Human bones found in back yards, bushland and even the bellies of sharks will be analysed in a DNA blitz that could lead to criminal investigations.
China has slammed Australia as ‘reckless’ and intentionally provocative, in response to Australia’s declaration that China’s territorial claims over the South China Seas are illegal.
Nestled in a quiet industrial estate, the Hells Angels Thomastown clubhouse has been the focus of intense law enforcement interest for more than two decades. Now police suspect bikie apprentice Kerry Giakoumis walked in one day and was carried out the next.
The vicious murder of an elderly Mount Isa couple nearly 10 years ago shocked police and made them determined to hunt down their killer.
Police were listening intently to brutal Comanchero puppet gang The Last Kings phone calls and text messages to foil an ambush on a Doreen property in 2016, when they picked up on a secret lingo. Here’s how the cops decoded the bikie drug code.
From “petty” beginnings as low level property crime offenders, North Queensland father and son Gino and Mark Stocco became Australia’s most wanted men. Now, one of the detectives who spent hours questioning the pair has revealed the unique relationship between the two modern day bushrangers.
More than 190 foreign criminals, including murderers, rapists and child sex offenders, were kicked out of Australia from their Queensland homes last year.
Prison officers say staff are copping the brunt of inmate anger over a Corrections Department practice that undermined safety and could lead to corruption and further criminalisation.
“You need to come back now. You need to let the murder go,” urges TV psychic Lisa Williams. The woman is in a “full trance” and looks distressed, as if she’s having trouble breathing, as she and other Australians mediums investigate a death.
Women who fall in love with killers are a source of endless fascination, but Ivan Milat says he would never encourage “any romantic interests” with his many penpals — and, so far, no one’s offering. Read his 10-page letter to True Crime Australia in full
Australia’s greatest homicide detective scored convictions in 99 per cent of the 320 murder cases he handled and says the killers almost always made the same mistake.
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