The Queen loves horse racing, but the sport of kings has always attracted its share of scoundrels and scallywags. This is the infamous racing scandal which embroiled a couple of regal figures, writes Andrew Rule.
Up to 100 police are combing eight active crime scenes as they frantically seek answers as to why alleged shooter Ben Hoffmann went on his rampage with an illegal firearm.
After Gianfranco Tizzoni turned on the mafia, he fled Australia and laid low in fear. But it wasn’t a mob hitman that tracked down one of the country’s biggests supergrasses, it was journalist Keith Moor.
Criminals long ago moved on from big armed robberies, but there was a time when violent heists on banks, armoured vans and payroll deliveries were a constant occurrence. Here are some of the most notorious bandits from that era.
FEAR. Hunger. Desperation. Shame. Eight starving escapees lost in the bush, picking each other off for food. It happened in Australia.
A PREACHER turned gentlemanly bank robber, hanged as a murderous bushranger, Captain Moonlite had another side — his love for a young male gang member.
TALES of The Brownout Strangler terrified citizens of Melbourne in the 1940s, as a soldier with a twisted fascination with female voices was terrorising women. This is the story of his last murder.
AS miners rushed to South Australia’s newly discovered goldfields one wild and lawless place was desperate for a permanent police station – but drunken goldminers was not the biggest threat the officers faced.
ANCHORS, flags and ships may be trendy tattoos for hipsters and AFL stars but it was convicts transported to Australia who sported some of the country’s original ink.
THE Sport of Kings has always had a reputation for rogues and scandal but notorious horseman James ‘Grafter’ Kingsley’s audacious scam at Sydney racetracks was worthy of a Hollywood movie.
THE secret behind the murder of a cricket star by his alleged lover in 1920 had its beginnings in an attack by a lunatic seven years earlier.
WELCOME to the dark side of the roaring twenties, a golden age of jazz, booze, fast cars and for an entrepreneurial crook, Sydney was a villain’s paradise.
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