THE story of the delusional world of Fiona and Mitchell Barbieri can now be told after the close of the inquest into the murder of Detective Inspector Bryson Anderson — knifed when he walked into their bizarre suburban stronghold.
THE truck hit the wall like a bomb going off; 25 tonnes of metal smashing into a pub at high speed. Five people would die, but the driver just smiled as he stepped over a survivor and ran into the night.
THE former boss of a man shot dead while working on a farm south of Brisbane wrote a letter pleading with authorities to look further into the case, which police determined was an accident.
GONE are the days of the handlebar moustache, ripped jeans and leather jackets and men who fought over the patch you wore on your vest. Now cash is king, loyalty is dead and business is conducted between historically bitter enemies. Welcome to our bikie scene in 2018.
A FORMER co-owner of the farm where a young man died in a workplace shooting told an inquest of the moment he phoned the site after hearing of the shocking death, only to be left “flabbergasted” by the response at the other end of the line.
JEFFREY Brooks told of fears he’d be killed at the farm where he worked, saying hostilities had turned his dream job into a nightmare. His former employer told him he’d been “watching too much TV” but the next he heard of Mr Brooks, he was dead.
A MAN who police believed died in a shooting accident on a Queensland farm had borrowed a shotgun from his brother, saying he may need it to defend himself against hostile co-workers.
JEFFREY Brooks feared for his life. The young scientist believed he was going to be murdered at his Brisbane workplace – and that those involved would try and make it look like an accident.
THE Courier-Mail today launches Dead Wrong, a special investigation into a shooting death where everything pointed to murder, but the investigating officers couldn’t see it. The victim’s family wants the case reopened so justice can finally be delivered.
THE twists, heartbreak and intrigue of the Karen Ristevski case gripped us from the moment we heard the 47-year-old Melbourne mum had vanished without a trace.
TWO people cowered in the apartment as Bronson ‘Lizard Man’ Ellery beat his ex Shelsea Schilling to death, only coming out once the screaming had stopped. For the first time, new details can be revealed about one of the Gold Coast’s most shocking murder-suicides.
HELLS Angels bikie Christopher Hudson was fuelled by drugs and anger the morning he went on a terrifying shooting rampage in Melbourne’s CBD, just days after a wild night with AFL star Alan Didak.
IT was crazy enough the first time an ambitious but bumbling criminal kidnapped an entire Victorian school at gunpoint, only to be foiled by a teacher and her knee-high boots. But then he went back and did it again.
TWO bodies in the bush. A rapist terrorising the young mothers of Donvale. And the clue kept secret for 16 years that finally led to the man responsible for all of it.
A NEW book has revealed the six personalities and troubled life of lesbian vampire killer Tracey Wigginton. WARNING: Graphic.
TIAHLEIGH Palmer’s foster dad spent six days leading the charge to find her – but he was an actor hiding a horrific truth, writes Kate Kyriacou in the first part of our special investigation into the Queensland schoolgirl’s murder.
EXCLUSIVE: There were two sides to Cy Walsh, friends and family reveal — the eccentric spiritualist who adored his dad, Phil Walsh, and the troubled soul who fatally attacked the Crows coach in his bed.
ONE of SA’s worst mass murderers is dead after living a secret life interstate. He slaughtered 10 members of his family, then served just eight years in jail. Now Clifford Bartholomew’s ultimate fate can finally be revealed.
THE overnight seizure in Sydney of $8m of drugs in ‘copy paper’ hidden in kids’ clothes is a stark and chilling reminder of the war being waged on increasingly elaborate attempts to bring deadly drugs into Sydney.
THE sister of Bronson Ellery has spoken out for the first time since his and Shelsea Schilling’s grisly deaths – on the ‘lil bro’ she knew, his downward spiral, her confrontation with a witness and why her suffering family wants an inquest too.
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