Stephen Chowis murdered his wife Tania with a candlestick but the victim’s mother says a letter he wrote from jail reveals he’s not sorry for brutally killing their daughter — as he faces the parole board later this year.
The legal team of Karl Hague has argued a jury’s decision to convict him of the 1995 murder of Geelong teenager Ricky Balcombe in Market Square was a “substantial miscarriage of justice” and that his trial was “unfair”.
After the young woman’s body was found weighed down in a Canberra lake with more than 60 stab wounds, theories ranged from a twisted love triangle to marauding bikies. Today key players don’t want “to re-live any of this s—”, but her parents hold out fresh hope for answers.
A new witness has emerged who could hold answers into Tasmania’s most documented cold case investigation — the disappearance of Tasmanian model Lucille Butterworth.
AT the inquest into Nathan Garriock’s death, a young man yells out to his mother Joan that it was one of Nathan’s friends who killed her son. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST NOW
Nathan Garriock was killed at his best mate’s party in front of 100 teens. Now a shocking claim from a friend has blown the case wide open. LISTEN TO EPISODE TWO OF THE INVESTIGATIVE PODCAST.
IT is a murder mystery that has baffled Sydney’s south west. Nathan Garriock was violently killed at his best mate’s 18th party attended by 100 teens. Now 15 years on, his parents are desperate for answers. Here are the people at the centre of the special investigative series Gatecrash and their relationship to Nathan.
NATHAN Garriock had just turned 17 when he was killed at his best friend’s party. Hundreds of people were at the birthday bash, yet no one admits seeing anything. Or did they?
A BABY missing after his dad snatched him then died in a head-on crash; a sex monster’s sick trophies from unknown victims. Too many offenders have taken their secrets to the grave — but one prime suspect’s death is delivering new clues.
A SERIAL rapist has admitted to the brutal cold case killing of Rodney Mitchell 35 years ago, and a string of rapes, at a well-known lovers’ lane in Melbourne’s southeast.
THEY were bashed, electrocuted and pushed over a cliff in a scene staged to incriminate his wife should the bodies be found. One major oversight revealed the murderous dad’s crime — but there’d be no slip-ups as he fled justice.
A FORMER ambulance officer believes he will be charged over his wife’s disappearance and suspected murder but has declared “I did not kill her”.
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