The unexplained deaths of Danielle Easey, found wrapped in plastic in a shallow creek west of Newcastle and Devora Howard, whose body was plucked by fishermen from the water off Terrigal, has left some of the NSW Police Force’s sharpest minds baffled.
Tasmania Police’s handling of new witness information into the death of Lucille Butterworth has been called a “total stuff-up” and prompted members of the Butterworth family to consider legal action.
Police have reopened the investigation into the disappearance, and possible murder, of schoolgirl Rista Chanthavixay — more than 10 years after she was last seen.
Nick Munn allegedly confessed to Geelong’s notorious Market Square murder in the days before he killed his mate Jason Fry in a similar fashion.
THE man sat against a wall on a city beach. He was clean-shaven and wearing a shirt and tie. And he was dead. When police searched the body for identification, the mystery only deepened.
FOR over 40 years, the deaths of Alan and Edith Moffat have remained a mystery, but the Maryborough community still wants answers
GRIEF flowed after Kaye King died in a dirty pit on her family farm. It was only later, when her children compared stories on exactly what happened that day, that clues came together to suggest foul play, possibly at the hands of their father.
IT’S one of the most enduring unsolved crime mysteries in Townsville. How was this woman left to die on a roadside and who caused her death?
FOR the past year, The Courier-Mail has tracked down witnesses, statements and documents relating to the death of young scientist Jeffrey Brooks. These are the pictures that tell the story.
A CONTROVERSIAL police officer who would go on to become one of the state’s top cops threatened the father of a shooting victim who was critical of the investigation, an inquest was told.
PABLO Picasso’s Weeping Woman was the most expensive painting ever bought by an Australian art gallery. Then it was stolen, sparking a frenzied search. The thieves were never caught.
A TOP cop turned private investigator uncovered a trail of unauthorised cash sales and deceit at the Queensland crayfish farm where a young scientist died in mysterious circumstances. LATEST PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW
THE farmhand at the centre of the Jeffrey Brooks investigation has revealed he now believes the young scientist could have been murdered and thinks it’s possible he was “set up” as the likely suspect by whoever shot the 24-year-old.
SOMEWHERE in the hinterland hides the answers to a dark secret. Now new evidence reveals that the manager of a farm where a worker died of a gunshot wound had earlier threatened to shoot a neighbour. EPISODE 3 AVAILABLE NOW
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