The murders of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her toddler Khandalyce haunted the nation. In her book The Lost Girls, The Sunday Telegraph’s crime reporter Ava Benny-Morrison reveals for the first time how police eventually cracked the case.
She was occasionally dubbed ‘Mouse’, due to her tiny frame, but Karlie Pearce-Stevenson never liked it. She may have been little, but she was vivacious and adventurous. With a new baby and new partner life was good. Until she met Daniel Holdom.
The After Dark Bandit terrorised banks and TABs for two years. Except, there wasn’t just one person playing the role. So what would lead a pair of cleanskins like the Morgan twins, both family men and talented builders, to suddenly resort to a life of crime?
In an extract from his new book, exiled Rebel bikie Shane ‘Kiwi’ Martin — the father of AFL superstar Dustin Martin — tells how he became a member of the infamous motorcycle gang in Sydney.
WHETHER pointing guns at police and Armaguard vans in Melbourne or busting out of prison, Christopher Binse is as brazen as criminals come. Here’s why “Badness” is one of our baddest crooks.
No newspaper editor alive could resist a headline like ‘Lesbian Prostitutes Decapitate and Dismember Transvestite Pro-wrestling Truck Driver’. Beneath it all, however, the tale is even sadder than it is twisted.
THEY were modern-day bushrangers. But after eight years on the run, father and son fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco were finally captured at a remote property in central NSW. Police soon discovered the body of the property’s caretaker decaying in a shed. Read this chilling extract from Nino Bucci’s new book.
ANITA Cobby had been dead for more than two and half years, yet John was still having nightmares about her, still racked with guilt that he hadn’t been there to protect her.
NEVER-before-released police files shows Brisbane’s infamous Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing is not a closed case but a cold case.
HAZEL Baron was just nine when she first suspected her mum was a killer. Here she describes the day her dad disappeared.
Twenty years ago, Katherine Knight committed the unspeakable crime that would see her dubbed Australia’s Hannibal Lecter and locked up, never to be released. Why then do fellow inmates see her as a kind-hearted “Nanna”? WATCH NOW
He was a notorious safe-breaker who committed Australia’s first robbery with a getaway car. She was a brothel keeper and leading figure in the razor gang wars. Their wedding didn’t make the social pages but it certainly made headlines.
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