“Just stop, put the gun down, come out into the street … nothing is going to happen to you.” Retired officer Peter Marr was the first to confront a Rundle St gunman in 1976 – and his bravery stunned the top cop of the day.
He preyed on prostitutes, tourists and even refugees from Nazi Germany, but William Edward Prentice also had a habit of serving his country. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Mutilated as a child and quick to violence as a man, Malvern ‘Gunner’ Cameron became one of the most feared gangsters in the notorious Little Lon district. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Known on the streets of Melbourne as “the Policeman Puncher”, Percy Ramage was such a dangerous prisoner he lived almost constantly in shackles and handcuffs. IN BLACK AND WHITE PODCAST
In this extract from his forthcoming book The Night Dragon, Matthew Condon details how Brisbane’s notorious Boggo Road Jail helped sow the seeds for the Whiskey Au Go Go tragedy and other deaths and disappearances in the ’70s
The Catholic Church has a heavy cross to bear. It’s facing the worst crisis it has seen in its 2000-year-old history. But questions remain over whether it can survive.
It was called Rough On Rats, a 19th century rodent poison that was little more than a box of arsenic coloured with coal — but for SA’s infamous black widow, Martha Needle, it was the tool she used to murder the people she was supposed to love most.
George Pell’s own words to the Australian victims of child abuse summed up his unbelievable contempt for the process of uncovering atrocities in the Catholic Church, writes Charles Miranda.
The now-jailed Bourke Street street attacker committed one of Australia’s worst mass murders. But there were other callous killers before him whose crimes sent shockwaves through the nation.
A former Queensland prostitute who risked her life to take down a corrupt detective almost 50 years ago is set to demand government compensation for decades of pain and suffering.
Fate delivered a young woman to the epicentre of one of the most important and historic moments in Queensland police history.
An Australian-first investigation into Sydney’s “dark chapter” of gay hate crimes is pursuing new tactics to expose the full truth behind multiple murders and attacks and may eventually see witnesses compelled to give evidence.
The case of Russia’s ‘granny ripper’ — accused of murder and cannibalism — holds chilling resemblance to one of Australia’s most notorious crimes.
Extortion, gambling halls, sex clubs, child prostitution, brothels, animal fighting, murder, arson and rampant looting. This is how an Aussie gang held an American city captive for four years.
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