The execution-style killing of Croydon man Paul Virgona on the EastLink freeway shook Victoria. More than a month has passed since the shock shooting, but these are the questions that still need answering, Charlie Bezzina says.
Despite a nearly 100 per cent clean-up rate for murders in 2019, Queensland detectives continue to be frustrated by these unsolved cases.
A woman’s body set on fire after being raped and murdered, and another found in a chest freezer in an apartment. These are some of the horrific crimes that shocked the nation in 2019.
Her husband might be behind bars for her manslaughter, but Gold Coast mother Novy Chardon has never been found. And the lead investigator on her case has a message for her grieving family.
A STANDOVER man who once claimed to “run the Eastern Suburbs” is back in strife for moving counterfeit money on slain gangster Pasquale Barbaro’s behalf.
A CHURCH leader has revealed that a shooting victim told him weeks before his death of a terrifying encounter in which a “warning shot’’ was fired over his head but police weren’t interested in the information.
NOT many people survive receiving the Last Rites from a priest. Even fewer face a stone cold underworld killer’s gun and live to tell the tale. But Melbourne cop Michael Pratt did.
BORN from the ashes of their former Comanchero colours, the Bandidos have carved a bloody history of public shootings, tit-for-tat violence and brutal acts of retribution.
MEET the characters behind the bikes, brutality and tattoos. They’ve been the major players in the Bandidos motorcycle club, who live by the motto “we are the people our parents warned us about”.
MORE than just outlaws or gangsters, the Comanchero have climbed the ranks to become the country’s most powerful bikie gang. But it was a violation of their most sacred law that sparked Australia’s most infamous bikie battle — and the tit-for-tat-violence that followed.
NEW tests done at a world-class ballistics site have found a man who police believe “accidentally’’ killed himself with a shotgun could not have been holding the weapon.
THEY’RE the serial killers, child murderers and wife killers who thought they had done everything to cover their tracks, but they were very wrong. Here’s how the heinous acts of these evil murderers were exposed.
AN international expert in gunshot wound trajectory has decimated the police theory that a young scientist “accidentally’’ shot himself. NEW PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW
FOR two police officers, the call out seemed like a simple enough request. Instead, it brought them into the crosshairs of one of Australia’s most successful bank robbers — but exceptional police work wasn’t the only thing that finally ended Harry Nylander’s string of violent hold-ups. It was his own arrogance.
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