GOLD Logie winner Grant Denyer has revealed for the first time how a crippling addiction to prescription painkillers left him so reckless he “might not be here” if it wasn’t for his kids. He has now opened up about his dark days of pills, depression and desperation.
THEY were modern-day bushrangers. But after eight years on the run, father and son fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco were finally captured at a remote property in central NSW. Police soon discovered the body of the property’s caretaker decaying in a shed. Read this chilling extract from Nino Bucci’s new book.
ANITA Cobby had been dead for more than two and half years, yet John was still having nightmares about her, still racked with guilt that he hadn’t been there to protect her.
AUSTRALIA is sinking $35 billion into the purchase of nine ultra-modern frigates. So what is it that makes them so necessary, and what will be their place in the maritime battlefields of the future?
SOLDIERS with post-traumatic stress disorder are finding brotherhood and healing through the rigours of the Kokoda Track.
WITH torn sails and splintered timbers, a Roman ship foundered in the savage seas between Greece and Crete. Some 2000 years later, what it carried would rattle the world.
HER marriage had a beautiful facade and a rotten core. On the outside he was charming. He called her Princess or Angel. He looked after her. Made all the decisions. But few knew what he was really like. Like the time he laughed at her underwear. Or the time he told her she smelled.
HE made a point of making friends in high places, this great-grandson of an English Lord and war hero. Even the local police sergeant, Murray Watson, who got to know Gerard through the Rotary club, rated him “one of the nicest guys in the world”.
THEY came for him on June 13. Nearly two months after he made that Triple-0 call, telling the operator his wife was missing.
SHE said yes when he asked her to marry him. Her ambitious, charming, baby-faced boyfriend who liked to take charge. She wasnt sure if she was ready for marriage, ready for children, ready for such a drastic change.
GERARD dialled Triple-0. “I don’t want to be alarmist,” he told the operator. Calm. Polite. “My, my wife isn’t home. Um, I don’t know where she is.”
ON the morning of April 30, as the search entered its 11th day, canoeist Daryl Joyce spotted a body in the mud as he made his way along Kholo Creek.
WORD spread through the mums in the school tuckshop. It was September, 2011, and word of Gerard’s infidelity had spread from the real estate community to the school community. A friend of Allison’s approached. It was time she knew.
IT WAS a tapered coffin of rosewood. Allison Baden-Clay, whose body had lain abandoned and exposed on the muddy banks of a suburban creek for 10 days, whod been zipped into a body bag and set out on a steel slab, lay on satin under an arrangement of coloured peonies.
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