‘Terror for cash’: Fall of Qld’s most notorious bank robbers
They were two of Queensland’s worst bank robbers. These brazen bandits got away with millions in violent armed holdups, until Ross Barnett took them on and cracked the case.
Cold Cases
‘He needs to do his time’: Mum’s plea
The mother of murdered Geelong teen Ricky Balcombe wants Karl Hague to serve the rest of his 26-year sentence without appeal after he lost his bid to get his murder conviction overturned on Thursday.
Husband arrested 37 years after Roxlyn vanished
Detectives have made a breakthrough in the cold case murder of Roxlyn Bowie, arresting her husband in Queensland.
Lucille’s brother still digging for answers
John Butterworth has spent the past week getting his hands dirty as he continues his search for answers into the unsolved disappearance of his beauty queen sister.
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‘They reckoned I buried my wife in the backyard’
A BRISBANE man who police once believed may have buried his wife in their backyard, has broken his silence about the disappearance of Rosemary “Cathy” Dodd 35 years ago.
‘Crucified’ body identified
DETECTIVES are reviewing the infamous ‘Rack Man’ case, with the body found lashed to a homemade cross and dumped in the Hawkesbury River identified as a well known Sydney and Gold Coast gambler.
The grandmother who just vanished
PODCAST: A loving grandmother went for a walk to the shops and was never seen again. The only sign of her, a handbag found in the bush. Her family said she fell in with ‘undesirables’ but haven’t given up hope after 15 years. Listen to Lost in Sydney podcast episode IV.
How five words snared a killer
DETECTIVE Sergeant Phil Neagle was about to shut the book on the 2011 murder of Edward “Eddie” Camilleri when a young catwalk model muttered five words that changed it all.
Clues to 70-year puzzle a step closer
ATTORNEY-General Vickie Chapman has opened the door to exhume the Somerton Man and extract DNA that could finally solve the 70-year mystery of his identity.
Bus stop shooting mystery endures
ALMOST 10 years after Omega Ruston was gunned down next to a bus stop in an Australia Day road rage attack, it remains one of the Gold Coast’s few unsolved murder mysteries.
A suspect still in the crosshairs
MAJOR Crime detectives have revealed they plan to submit a key exhibit in the Yasmin Sinodinos murder case to Forensic Science SA, for fresh testing in an effort to gain more evidence against Timo Pasanen, the key suspect in the case.
Son offers new lead in mother-daughter Tapp murders
WHAT sort of man murders a nine-year-old girl and her mother? A man strong enough to subdue and strangle Ferntree Gully mother Margaret Tapp, a fit 35-year-old fighting to save her daughter from a murderous sexual predator. Now a son has come forward with a new shocking revelation — he thinks that man might be his father.
The mystery of Bradford Pholi’s disappearance
IT IS Boxing Day, 1982, a young indigenous boy jumps the back fence of his Dundas Valley home to scurry off to Eastwood station — he is on a mission to borrow money for his mother — minutes later his brother goes after him, but Bradford Pholi is never seen again.
The 35-year-old cold case that had police ‘baffled’
LINDA Reed had a wonderful life ahead of her, with plans to have a family with the man she was head over heels in love with — and then it was all cruelly snatched away.
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