Attempts to seduce women on the outside, heartbreak over the death of his mum, a broken romance and a growing sense of foreboding as the day of his murder edges closer are revealed in astonishing letters penned by underworld killer Carl Williams.
He wanted to be Police Commissioner, but when life as a cop fell apart he was a Mr Fix-It in Sydney’s underbelly, a money smuggler and a jailbird. Yet Charles Staunton reckons one title stands throughout — he’s a good bloke.
It took a spray of Luminol to show the blood stains on the seemingly spotless couch where Narelle Fraser had sat to question Tony Serrano, but it was what investigators found next that sickened the senior detective.
When parents Stan and Noelle Richardson drove by a car parked by the river they simply thought someone was fishing. It was only after their murdered daughter’s body was found at the spot they realised they’d likely passed her killer.
THEY were three mismatched police officers faced with an “unsolvable” and tragic crime, but as The Suitcase Baby case made sensational headlines one small clue gave them hope of catching a killer.
DEATH threats are all in a day’s work for Sydney private investigator Ken Gamble. The tale of how he exposed a Philippines fraud gang is part of Matthew Benns’ new book Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
AN unguarded commander walks into the heartland of Middle Eastern gang activity to pick up a rocket launcher – it seems like an unwise move, especially without appropriate security precautions, and these detectives have none.
IN an exclusive extract from his book, Sydney nightlife identity John Ibrahim details how his little brother Fadi’s glamorous wife saved him from certain death when a gunman put five bullets through him in their parked Lamborghini.
IN an elaborate police undercover operation featuring a fake crime network and months of careful manipulation, it all came down to one moment for Brett Peter Cowan.
THE closer the hangman got to the crowds on the riverbank, the more enormous and repulsive he seemed. Women gasped and children screamed, the ‘thrill of horror creeping through their veins’.
WHEN Hollywood star Russell Crowe agreed to discuss a film project with a top cop he had no idea the man was bent — or that their every move was being watched.
THE alcohol-fuelled love affair between a rich widow and her gardener drew comparisons to the risque exploits in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, but the real-life version had a fiery end.
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