As a crook, Rocky Iaria made a good fruit picker. And had he been jailed over a brazen crime against a rich tomato grower, he’d probably be alive today. Instead, years after he vanished, Rocky’s body was found somewhere completely unexpected.
Notorious gangster Neddy Smith’s killing fields have yielded another victim after confirmation remains found in the Kurnell sand dunes are those of male model Mark Johnston.
Colin Woodhouse was driving home from his shift as a food and beverage manager at Myer Pacific Fair, when he stopped to help a man standing next to a ‘broken down’ car.
In 1944 a man was jailed for the horrific murder of the “Pyjama Girl”. But startling evidence suggests police got it wildly wrong, and now the woman’s identity – and her killer – may never be known.
After waiting almost two decades, the family of slain Queensland mother Patricia Riggs has finally learned the fate of her killer, Ian Edmund Riggs.
A mother and her boyfriend at the time have been charged with child homicide over the 2008 death of toddler Angela Bannister in a cold case breakthrough for Homicide Squad detectives.
A man has been arrested and extradited to Queensland in connection with the investigation into the 2007 death of Jay Brogden.
The mother of Joanne Ratcliffe, one of two young girls abducted from the Adelaide Oval during a football match in one of Australia’s most compelling ongoing mysteries, has died.
As major crime detectives close in on the killer of Whyalla businessman Peter Seaford, his partner has revealed she heard his last words before he succumbed to his shocking injuries.
An Olympian and Aussie rules player was the first Australian to crack the NFL. But his colourful life ended in a gruesome ambush murder that’s never been solved.
A DNA bungle has put a paedophile priest and other suspects back in the frame over the 1980 murder of Thornbury bookshop owner Maria James. Take a look at the evidence and possible killers in a case that’s haunted our top detective for decades.
Fresh information has convinced police that Queensland man Jay Brogden was murdered more than a decade ago, with detectives “very confident” of now solving the case.
Detectives are zeroing in on a suspect in the slaying of gangland figure Willie Thompson — a lifelong friend of Tony Mokbel who was connected with a who’s who of Melbourne’s crime fraternity — at Chadstone 15 years ago, releasing a police image of the man.
Police have relaunched an investigation into the death of schoolgirl Rachel Antonio, which may determine whether her secret boyfriend Robert Hytch could be charged.
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