Chilling truth behind bikie romances
We already knew it was a dangerous lifestyle, now new figures have laid bare the extreme risk women are running when they get involved with bikies.
Behind The Scenes
‘My Tara was lured back to her death’
Tara Brown feared for her life and family but was wooed back into a vicious relationship with her partner in a horrific domestic violence cycle, her mother says.
$140m drug bust: ‘Pill mafia’ has eyes on Australia
An international shipment of MDMA big enough to make 7 million ecstasy pills – that was destined to hit Brisbane during Schoolies – has been crushed, leaving a global network that had been operating for years “fully dismantled”.
Prison computer ‘not suitable’ for Assange
Julian Assange has complained about his computer access inside London’s Belmarsh prison, saying he cannot defend himself on charges that carry a 175-year prison term.
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Truth behind crime TV’s hits and myths
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The women who are a force to reckon with
LOREN Truter has a seven-month-old baby. But it hasn’t stopped her tackling violent and armed offenders as a member of Victoria Police’s Critical Incident Response Unit.
What brought a serial killer to tears
UNSEEN letters from Ivan Milat have revealed who his tears and sympathies are for — and it’s not the men and women he slaughtered and dumped in bush graves.
‘What you see on TV is not reality’
SENTENCED to seven years jail for a white-collar crime, Sydney mum Victoria Schembri was bashed, threatened and harassed for sex — and that’s just the first day she was an inmate.
The woman who reads skeletons
WHEN a charred, headless torso was found in southeast Queensland in 2013, there were no clues about who the person was. So police turned to the “bones lady” in the hope she could help. She did.
Martin Bryant: Monster on the inside
AFTER almost 20 years behind the walls of Risdon Prison, News Corp is able to reveal the highly secret day-to-day existence of Australia’s worst killer.
Letter-writing ladies in love with Ivan
AS a balding, ageing, convicted serial killer sentenced to live out his life in a sunless cell, Ivan Milat has absolutely nothing going for him — but that doesn’t stop women writing to him.
How sick obsession led to dancer’s murder
RACHEL Barber had everything going for her — she was a beautiful talented dancer with a handsome boyfriend. That’s why she was murdered.
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