Hells Angels on run after wings clipped
SIX Australian Hells Angels are in hiding after their visas were revoked in Thailand as police probe drug trafficking, standover tactics, weapons possession and money laundering.
Crime In Focus
Rogerson quizzed over Whiskey Au Go Go fire
CONVICTED murderer and corrupt cop Roger Rogerson has written from behind bars to deny any wrongdoing after assisting Queensland police in the reinvestigation of the 1973 Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing.
Wild gunman Mad Max’s reign of terror
MAD Max Marinof waged a terrifying one-man war against Melbourne’s police force, shooting half a dozen officers before being taken down after eight months on the run.
Shooting victim’s family demand new inquest
PARENTS of a young scientist killed in a farm shooting will ask the Attorney-General to help deliver justice after “one of the worst police investigations in Queensland history’’.
Untangling the twisted mind of a sex fiend
AFTER decades in jail, Robert Fardon will soon be a free man as his psychiatrists deem him a low risk of reoffending.
Church-going housewife burned alive
A BRISBANE mum was preparing a Bible reading in the kitchen of her home with her three year-old daughter beside her when a man burst in and set her on fire. Neighbours came running when they heard the screams but they were too late.
Bandidos bikie infiltrator granted refuge in Canada
A QUEENSLAND man has reportedly been granted refugee status in Canada amid fears for his life after he infiltrated the Bandidos bikie gang.
How book plot inspired outback slayings
CELEBRATED mystery writer Arthur Upfield was looking for the recipe for a perfect murder. Little did he know a mate would try it and hang for his heinous crimes.
The man who tried to break out of jail with Milat
HE had already embarrassed the authorities with one audacious escape, and within weeks of his recapture he was plotting another. This time Ivan Milat was going with him.
Sex killings or something else entirely?
A TAXI driver who’d had his throat cut; a mum-of-three whose body was burned beyond recognition; and a church-going preschool teacher who’d been viciously killed in her own home. What was the link between these three horrific murders?
Conman, fugitive, playboy says life of crime is over
HE’S out of jail. Again. But for Queensland conman Peter Clarence Foster, there is an eerie sense of deja vu that has plagued him for most of his adult life. But this time, he says in an exclusive interview with The Courier-Mail, it’s different.
How Comancheros boss rose to the top
WHAT does it take to lead one of Australia’s most feared bikie gangs, the Comancheros? He might be a thug but Mick Murray is a highly-organised one, writes Andrew Rule.
Standover man who ‘ran Eastern Suburbs’ back in trouble
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.
Victim shared shooting fears before death
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.
How a cop faced off with a hitman — and survived
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.
How the Bandidos bikie gang was born
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 Bandidos: The characters behind the tatts
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”.
How Comanchero became Australia’s most vicious bikies
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.
Why Jeffrey couldn’t have shot himself
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.
The killers who thought they got away with murder
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.
US expert shoots down QLD police theory
AN international expert in gunshot wound trajectory has decimated the police theory that a young scientist “accidentally’’ shot himself. NEW PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW
The bank robber convicted by his own arrogance
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.
Two-year nightmare: ‘My only crime was honesty’
A MAN who handed over millions of dollars’ worth of drugs to police thought he was doing the right thing. Instead he was arrested and faced spending the next two decades in prison.
Taxman targets Mokbel’s underworld mate
A MELBOURNE underworld and racing figure with links to the Mokbel and Moran clans allegedly owes a fortune in unpaid taxes.
The savage murder that shocked Victoria
THE violent murder of this young mother in front of her children was so disturbing that it shocked and sickened not only the experienced Supreme Court judge presiding over it, but the accused man’s defence counsel and everyone in court. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
How Baden-Clay’s tyranny broke Allison down
ALLISON Baden-Clay’s parents have shed new light on how their daughter was reduced to “nothing” by a controlling husband who left her isolated and without money before eventually murdering her.
Where underworld killers and mafia dons rest
THEY were among the most notorious gangsters in Melbourne’s history — but for all bar one, in death these underworld figures’ graves resemble those of saints. SEE THE PICTURES
Life and crimes of drug smuggler Donald Tait
FORGERY, bigamy, impersonation: Opportunist Donald Roy Tait had tried the lot before an attempted move to the big-league introduced him to households across Australia.
The ice addict, the hooker and the murderer
IT was meant to be a simple robbery but it all went horribly wrong. The inside story on how ice addict Mark ‘Zeb’ Spencer was murdered in his Gold Coast home.
Sydney a soft target for foreign thugs
NOTORIOUS foreign crime syndicates now consider Sydney such a soft target and are raking in so much money they’re putting aside longstanding feuds for one major reason. This investigation can reveal how a multicultural melting pot of gangs have taken hold of Sydney.
Huxley’s murderer ‘would kill again’
IT’S been five years since Daniel Jack Kelsall sexually assaulted and stabbed Morgan Huxley to death in his Sydney unit. Now his psychologist has made a chilling claim about the baby-faced killer.
The Aussie drug lord no one can catch
YOU’VE never heard his name or seen his full image, but this 57 year old is thought to be one of Australia’s biggest criminals.
The undoing of a cold-blooded wife-killer
A SMUG former cop was so confident he’d got away with staging his wife’s murder he told officers they would soon be shouting him drinks to apologise, but he hadn’t counted on some deft detective work.
Ivan Milat’s killing grounds 25 years on
A quarter of a century ago two orienteers found a body in the Belanglo State forest sparking a hunt for one of Australia’s worst serial killers.
Our worst killer women inmates
THEY are among the most dangerous women in prison and authorities don’t know how to cope if they’re ever released.
Depraved killer’s shocking prison persona
Twenty years ago, Katherine Knight committed the unspeakable crime that would see her dubbed Australia’s Hannibal Lecter and locked up, never to be released. Why then do fellow inmates see her as a kind-hearted “Nanna”? WATCH NOW
Special Report: The real Carly Ryan
IT’S the murder that captured the nation’s attention — for all the wrong reasons. Here, Court Reporter Sean Fewster sifts rumour, gossip and transcript for the truth about Carly Ryan and the man who killed her.
The one question that broke the Truro murders case
SEVEN young women were kidnapped, raped, murdered and dumped north of Adelaide by a charming young psychopath and his doting accomplice. This is the inside story of how police finally solved the Truro serial killings.
WARLORD: From refugee to supervillain
HE fled Afghanistan aged 7, a scared refugee boy. He felt violence was his only way through life. By 26, Farhad Qaumi was Sydney’s remorseless supervillain.
Real-life siege like Al Pacino heist movie
IT started with a bank robbery, then became a hostage-taking and finally a wild chase involving 39 police cars, a helicopter, four water launches and scores of media. But the most extraordinary moment was when an Australian detective was shot between the eyes — and lived.
The ‘bastard cop’ turned serial killer
PROLOGUE: He was the ‘bastard cop from Bankstown’ who loved booze and women and saw himself as Australia’s answer to Dirty Harry. Cold, pragmatic, evil, Roger Rogerson loved nothing more than killing crooks and boasting about it.
When a killer prowled the northern beaches
THIRTY-TWO years ago an Australian-born American appeared in Manly Court to answer charges that he had sexually assaulted two girls.
Motive for share house executions still baffles
THEY were random victims — three young people set on a collision course with a deadly stranger by an innocent ad for a housemate. Just weeks after the chilling killings, the cold-blooded murderer was ready to strike again, only to be thwarted by exceptional acts of bravery.
How a boy became a sadistic killer
THE shocking murder trial involving the death of Callington woman Pirjo Kemppainen provided disturbing insights into the mind of the teenage boy who killed her.
Aussie serial killers: Seven murders in seven weeks
WHEN the young women and girls went missing no one thought their disappearances suspicious, let alone connected them — even after the first body was found.
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