Three decades on from the Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption in Queensland, jailed former police commissioner Terry Lewis has doubled down on his innocence and claimed “they needed a big scalp and it was me or Joh”.
The arrival of two defecting Soviet spies in a nondescript street in suburban Melbourne was officially strictly hush-hush. So naturally, it was Bentleigh East’s worst-kept secret.
She lived in the lawless shanty town where Docklands is today. He was a Richmond football great dubbed “Captain Blood”. But they forged an unlikely friendship. NEW PODCAST SERIES
Former Herald Sun journalist and author Geoff Wilkinson describes Hoddle St minutes after Julian Knight’s murderous spree.
IN a sleepy country town in 1978, a well-drilled gang pulled off what was then Australia’s biggest bank heist, escaping with $1.7 million in untraceable bills. They were never caught.
JOURNALISTS huddled around a camp fire to keep warm, while up the road, cops waited outside a farmhouse. Inside, sat three sadistic murderers and two child hostages. Everyone waited. And then the phone rang.
FOR years locals have been sharing terrifying stories about exactly what was in the water they were all drinking.
IT was a normal Aussie flight, except for the passenger with a sawn-off rifle and two sticks of gelignite who wanted to fly to Singapore. But a fellow passenger with an axe had other ideas …
A MELBOURNE journalist and stockbroker turned business mogul with stakes in Channel 7, lavish resorts in Queensland and even part ownership of the Brisbane Bears. But things ultimately came undone for Christopher Skase.
WENDY Sheppard was just nine when she first met Jimmy James. A kidnapping victim, she was freezing, lost and near death when Jimmy appeared from the darkness. Wendy was just one of his miracles.
EVER heard of The Lipstick Killer, Mr Stinky or The Zodiac Killer? Here’s the horrifying truth about how they and other killers got their names.
THE murder victim was preserved in formalin and put on public display as police struggled to identify her. Ten years later they had finally snared a killer, but did they have the right victim?
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