Breakthrough in Geelong cold case
There has been a major development in one of Geelong’s biggest cold case mysteries, the alleged murder of Annette Steward in 1992.
Cold Cases
Who is hiding this brutal assassin?
An extraordinary new photo has emerged of a killer who is still out on the streets after he assassinated a diplomat in Australia. Police have moved to question sources in Sydney and Melbourne.
The questions remaining over EastLink shooting
The execution-style killing of Croydon man Paul Virgona on the EastLink freeway shook Victoria. More than a month has passed since the shock shooting, but these are the questions that still need answering, Charlie Bezzina says.
Most mystifying cold cases of the decade
Gangster Carl Williams was bludgeoned to death by Matthew Johnson in a brutal jailhouse killing — but was it organised by someone else? This case is among Victoria’s most mystifying unsolved crimes of the decade.
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Triple murder suspect jailed for violent crimes
The prime suspect in three South Australian cold-case murders has been jailed in Victoria after being convicted of violence and theft offences — a similar modus operandi in each of the unsolved killings.
‘A killer is out there’: High Court won’t hear Bowraville case
Australia’s highest court will not hear a bid to have tried for murdering three Aboriginal Bowraville children nearly three decades ago, but their families won’t give up while the killer is still “on the loose”.
Man jailed over wife’s ‘violent and sudden death’
After waiting almost two decades, the family of slain Queensland mother Patricia Riggs has finally learned the fate of her killer, Ian Edmund Riggs.
Mum, boyfriend charged over toddler’s Echuca death
A mother and her boyfriend at the time have been charged with child homicide over the 2008 death of toddler Angela Bannister in a cold case breakthrough for Homicide Squad detectives.
Arrest in Jay Brogden cold case
A man has been arrested and extradited to Queensland in connection with the investigation into the 2007 death of Jay Brogden.
‘Reunited at last’: Joanne Ratcliffe’s mum dies
The mother of Joanne Ratcliffe, one of two young girls abducted from the Adelaide Oval during a football match in one of Australia’s most compelling ongoing mysteries, has died.
Chilling last call and 30 years of silence
As major crime detectives close in on the killer of Whyalla businessman Peter Seaford, his partner has revealed she heard his last words before he succumbed to his shocking injuries.
Aussie NFL trailblazer killed in cold blood
An Olympian and Aussie rules player was the first Australian to crack the NFL. But his colourful life ended in a gruesome ambush murder that’s never been solved.
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