‘How Baden-Clay could have got away with murder’
John Chardon, jailed this week for the manslaughter of wife Novy, beat a murder charge — and allegedly claimed another notorious wife killer could have done the same.
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Insider breaks silence on sick sex abuse ring
A prominent Sydney gay community figure has revealed his links to a notorious kidnap and abuse ring believed to be behind five murders and told how drugged boys would be brought to his home.
Family ‘hiding in Townsville’ after 5yo allegedly raped
The mother of a little boy allegedly raped by her former partner says her young family is in hiding in Townsville as the case drags through the justice system, years after the alleged crime.
Killer mum to appeal Tyrell Cobb sentence
The High Court has granted a Gold Coast mother special leave to appeal her nine-year manslaughter sentence for the death of her four-year-old son Tyrell Cobb after she did not seek medical assistance for him as he lay dying from blunt force trauma.
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The ‘bastard cop’ turned serial killer
PROLOGUE: He was the ‘bastard cop from Bankstown’ who loved booze and women and saw himself as Australia’s answer to Dirty Harry. Cold, pragmatic, evil, Roger Rogerson loved nothing more than killing crooks and boasting about it.
When a killer prowled the northern beaches
THIRTY-TWO years ago an Australian-born American appeared in Manly Court to answer charges that he had sexually assaulted two girls.
Motive for share house executions still baffles
THEY were random victims — three young people set on a collision course with a deadly stranger by an innocent ad for a housemate. Just weeks after the chilling killings, the cold-blooded murderer was ready to strike again, only to be thwarted by exceptional acts of bravery.
How a boy became a sadistic killer
THE shocking murder trial involving the death of Callington woman Pirjo Kemppainen provided disturbing insights into the mind of the teenage boy who killed her.
Aussie serial killers: Seven murders in seven weeks
WHEN the young women and girls went missing no one thought their disappearances suspicious, let alone connected them — even after the first body was found.
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