Convicted killer Bevan Spencer von Einem has inadvertently made a stunning admission in a prison interview while trying to convince a journalist of his innocence in the sickening ‘The Family’ sex abuse and torture ring.
He was supposed to walk free from jail next week but a judge has ruled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can’t be trusted.
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.
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.
HE fled Afghanistan aged 7, a scared refugee boy. He felt violence was his only way through life. By 26, Farhad Qaumi was Sydney’s remorseless supervillain.
IT started with a bank robbery, then became a hostage-taking and finally a wild chase involving 39 police cars, a helicopter, four water launches and scores of media. But the most extraordinary moment was when an Australian detective was shot between the eyes — and lived.
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.
THIRTY-TWO years ago an Australian-born American appeared in Manly Court to answer charges that he had sexually assaulted two girls.
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.
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.
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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