How Truganini became an outlaw after double murder
Truganini has often been called the last Aboriginal Tasmanian, but a new book details her little-known life on the run as an outlaw in Victoria after her husband shot and killed two men.
Our Criminal History
‘Disgraceful’: Site where Kelly killed three cops vandalised
Descendants of officers shot by Ned Kelly and his gang at Stringybark Creek Reserve near Mansfield are reeling after the site was disturbed.
The night Quiet Joe became a killer
The brutal stabbing of a Bourke St pub patron sparked a murder trial, and a mystery over why a man known as Quiet Joe became a killer.
How violent convict enforcer John Price wound up dead
He ran Norfolk Island with unforgiving violence and zero tolerance, and his iron-fisted approach continued when he moved to Melbourne to deal with the ballooning prison population. But Price’s death should be no surprise.
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Why this Victorian cop was the real Sherlock Holmes
He was the scourge of Melbourne’s villains and scoundrels, but unlike the fictional London sleuth, his crazy undercover exploits and bizarre disguises were real. LISTEN NOW
The secret language of our criminal ancestors
It’s 1819 and you’ve just been boned by a bum-trap, thrown in ruffles, and brought in front of a beak for knapping a Jacob from a danna-drag. This is the convict slang used by our loose-lipped criminal ancestors. TAKE OUR CONVICT QUIZ.
‘Haunting history of my vintage FJ Holden ute’
When Sunday Telegraph picture editor Jeff Darmanin bought a 1955 Holden FJ ute to restore, he was shocked to discover a teen boy had been shot dead in the vehicle in 1965. The ute was then buried deep in a Gundagai barn for decades before being resold.
Ultimate sacrifice: ‘He died trying to save lives’
BREVET Sergeant Glen Huitson was manning a roadblock when he was shot dead by a man known as ‘Crocodile Dundee’. He was the last police officer to be killed in the line of duty and today marks 20 years since his death
How Melbourne’s one-legged gang ruled the streets
They were feared on the streets of North Melbourne, turning to violence in pubs and outside footy matches. But they weren’t any ordinary gang — here’s how they turned their missing limbs into an advantage. NEW PODCAST LISTEN NOW
Plot to dig up John Dillinger’s grave
The body of notorious gangster John Dillinger will be exhumed 85 years after he was killed by FBI agents, but the grave escape plot will be an incredibly tough job.
‘They grabbed her, threw her over a fence and left’
WHEN police took a frantic triple-0 call from inside a Darwin women’s shelter saying someone was being abducted, gunfire was ringing out in the background. Superintendent Shaun Gill knew then it was a high risk, life or death situation
How to get away with outback murder
An author’s bid to devise the perfect murder provided the real-life technique for disposing of three slain Australian men in the 1920s and 1930s, and perhaps a fourth ten years later — but the killers missed a crucial step.
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