Most suspects in serious drug crimes don’t drink and sleep with their lawyers – or get their lawyer to call underworld heavies like Carl Williams. So how did former detective Paul Dale find himself in the middle of the Lawyer X scandal?
A former Queensland detective has described the split-second decision he had to make before shooting a man dead – and how he prayed he wouldn’t have to pull the trigger.
The jihadi bride convicted alongside her husband over the 2015 New Year’s Eve stabbing terror attack plot repeatedly wrote jail letters to murderous Brothers 4 Life founder Bassam Hamzy and penned threats to the NSW prison boss, it can be revealed.
Two warring bikie gangs set just two rules before they set out to settle their scores – no guns and no knives. Now for the first time one combatant has revealed how the shooting started anyway.
YOU know it from TV shows such as CSI — but it was actually a small group of Australian scientists who changed the way police forces around the world view scenes of crime.
WHEN a Melbourne man and his cousin suffered gruesome deaths on a boat off the Greek coast, authorities were quick to close the book. But all was not as it seemed.
CHOPPER, Mad Dog, Fat Tony — the nicknames of some of Melbourne’s most notorious crooks are so famous you might not even know their real names. Andrew Rule reveals how they came about. NEW PODCAST — LISTEN NOW.
THEY are the women too dangerous to be left in the main prison population. Now one woman who served time with them reveals what really happens in maximum security — and the letters the killers sent her.
SEX slaves, foreign fugitives and persons of national security interest are being detected attempting to enter Australia now almost every single day.
A JAIL boss from Bali’s Kerobokan prison has made a surprising move to help Bali Nine members Matthew Norman and Si Yi Chen, who are serving life sentences.
IT takes a disturbing amount of evil to kill a child, to snuff out innocence. In turn it takes a special kind of good to investigate, track down and put away that evil. Here is how they do it.
AS A child, Jemma dressed like serial killers. As an adult, she was on the brink of becoming one – until her “perfect” plan fell apart.
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