Stephen Chowis murdered his wife Tania with a candlestick but the victim’s mother says a letter he wrote from jail reveals he’s not sorry for brutally killing their daughter — as he faces the parole board later this year.
The legal team of Karl Hague has argued a jury’s decision to convict him of the 1995 murder of Geelong teenager Ricky Balcombe in Market Square was a “substantial miscarriage of justice” and that his trial was “unfair”.
After the young woman’s body was found weighed down in a Canberra lake with more than 60 stab wounds, theories ranged from a twisted love triangle to marauding bikies. Today key players don’t want “to re-live any of this s—”, but her parents hold out fresh hope for answers.
A new witness has emerged who could hold answers into Tasmania’s most documented cold case investigation — the disappearance of Tasmanian model Lucille Butterworth.
LITTLE Cheryl Grimmer vanished from a NSW beach in 1970 at just three-years-old. For five decades her loss has haunted her surviving family and taunted cold case detectives — until the arrest of a man in Frankston in February last year.
A KEY suspect in the murder of mafia lawyer Joe “Pino’’ Acquaro says there is “no way’’ he pulled the trigger on the marked man, as detectives say an arrest is near.
DRUG trafficker Eric Lynch was executed 14 years ago and despite Major Crime detectives building an overwhelming case against his suspected killers, they remain free.
MISSING Brunswick man Nick Falos — whose torched Porsche was found in the Yarra Ranges 15 years ago — may have been alive for two days after receiving a mystery call from a pay phone as police launch a fresh push to find his killers.
THEY embarked on a crime spree committing desperate offences that included robbery, arson, assaults and even murder. This is how a female constable “kicked the hornet’s nest”.
JOHN Landos was just 13 when he went missing during a family holiday in Lorne in 1973. It wasn’t until the death of another boy a year later at the hands of a notorious paedophile, that police started to believe John might have suffered a similarly horrendous fate. NEW PODCAST – LISTEN NOW.
ON one side was a “wannabe gangster” lawyer and his associate the infamous Neddy Smith. On the other a loved up male model trying to reclaim his cash. The lawyer’s main concern? Not to get blood on his wife’s carpet.
A FATHER searches for his daughter. A daughter searches for her sister. When they separately consult different psychics on opposite sides of the world the result is extraordinary — and devastating.
FOR years they said a burglar had killed young mum Angie. But it was an ice-cold execution, hardly the work of a bumbling thief. Now Andrew Rule uncovers the shocking secret that has haunted someone for decades. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.
THE cops know how big time drug dealer Raphael Joseph spent his last day on Earth and which rival syndicate killed him to avoid paying him. They just need someone to help complete the jigsaw puzzle and claim the $1 million reward.
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