From lurid tales of drug and sex parties, to shadowy claims of assassins, the Bogle-Chandler murder case had it all. But a prank gone wrong is now believed to have led to one of Australia’s most baffling deaths.
High-profile cocaine arrests of “glamour wannabe gangsters” in Sydney and Melbourne have forced Mexico’s top cocaine cartel to take record levels of drug shipments to Australia into their own hands.
Andrew Parkinson has never been to where the world’s cocaine is made — but in the AFP’s special lab, he can track the exact source location of the drug flooding our shores.
The judge who sentenced Sterling Free for abducting and sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl from a southeast Queensland Kmart has slammed the man’s actions as “an abhorrent offence”. WATCH THE JUDGMENT HANDED DOWN
AFTER decades in jail, Robert Fardon will soon be a free man as his psychiatrists deem him a low risk of reoffending.
A BRISBANE mum was preparing a Bible reading in the kitchen of her home with her three year-old daughter beside her when a man burst in and set her on fire. Neighbours came running when they heard the screams but they were too late.
A QUEENSLAND man has reportedly been granted refugee status in Canada amid fears for his life after he infiltrated the Bandidos bikie gang.
CELEBRATED mystery writer Arthur Upfield was looking for the recipe for a perfect murder. Little did he know a mate would try it and hang for his heinous crimes.
HE had already embarrassed the authorities with one audacious escape, and within weeks of his recapture he was plotting another. This time Ivan Milat was going with him.
A TAXI driver who’d had his throat cut; a mum-of-three whose body was burned beyond recognition; and a church-going preschool teacher who’d been viciously killed in her own home. What was the link between these three horrific murders?
HE’S out of jail. Again. But for Queensland conman Peter Clarence Foster, there is an eerie sense of deja vu that has plagued him for most of his adult life. But this time, he says in an exclusive interview with The Courier-Mail, it’s different.
WHAT does it take to lead one of Australia’s most feared bikie gangs, the Comancheros? He might be a thug but Mick Murray is a highly-organised one, writes Andrew Rule.
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