A stranger with a dead eye sent a shudder through anyone his glare fell upon as he swept through Victoria’s goldfields in the 1850s. So when he became fixated with a young widow, tragedy was in the offing.
Older sibling to underworld king Leslie “Squizzy” Taylor, Claude “Big Squizzy” Taylor lived a colourful life of crime, was shot in the groin by his estranged wife and helped kick off a razor gang war. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.
Long Harry Slater was a gang leader, standover man, cop-shooter, house bomber, suspected murderer and gang war adversary to Squizzy Taylor, making him Australia’s most feared criminal until the early 1920s.
Ned Kelly might have had his armour, but he didn’t have a catchy nickname. Meet some of the other scoundrels who took up the bushranger life, from Mad Dog Morgan to Captain Moonlite.
They’re the suburban homes you’d drive past without looking twice at. But behind these average facades lies a darker story. From violent deaths to dismembered bodies, these are the crimes that shocked our neighbourhoods. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
From country cottages to suburban bungalows, these are the homes where the great Australian dream turned into the grisliest sort of nightmare. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
They’re the unassuming homes that harbour the same dark secret. From shootings and bashings, to frenzied stabbings, these are the crimes that have happened in our neighbourhoods. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
On the eve of the release of the Fitzgerald Inquiry report, the state’s corruption busters were forced to operate under a veil of secrecy and conduct clandestine meetings – not even Premier Ahern was privy to an advance copy. But one did mysteriously appear.
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.
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