A stranger with a dead eye sent a shudder through anyone his glare fell upon as he swept through Victoria’s goldfields in the 1850s. So when he became fixated with a young widow, tragedy was in the offing.
Older sibling to underworld king Leslie “Squizzy” Taylor, Claude “Big Squizzy” Taylor lived a colourful life of crime, was shot in the groin by his estranged wife and helped kick off a razor gang war. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.
Long Harry Slater was a gang leader, standover man, cop-shooter, house bomber, suspected murderer and gang war adversary to Squizzy Taylor, making him Australia’s most feared criminal until the early 1920s.
Ned Kelly might have had his armour, but he didn’t have a catchy nickname. Meet some of the other scoundrels who took up the bushranger life, from Mad Dog Morgan to Captain Moonlite.
They can uncover vital clues seemingly out of nowhere and identify offenders from a footprint left in the dust. Finally, the remarkable skills of Aboriginal trackers are being recognised.
Were they victims of a powerful, abusive partner, or simply drawn together by their sick desires? Whatever united these dire duos, it meant danger and death for those unlucky enough to cross their paths.
Names like Peter, Geoff and Chris don’t carry the same weight as Skitzo, Nuts and Ball Bearing. Just like you can’t be a bikie without tatts, you can’t be a player in the bikie world without a badass nickname.
The detective who caught Ivan Milat says another killer may have had the murderer in mind when he committed his own cruel crimes.
Australia’s first convicted terrorist who plotted to blow up military bases and the electricity power grid but was busted after a failed dead letter drop, is now set to walk from jail.
Hambali – the accused mastermind who led the extremist group behind the Bali and Jakarta bombings – may never face court, his lawyer is claiming.
The man who watched bikie Bronson “Lizard Man” Ellery kill himself after he murdered his ex-girlfriend was a key figure in a violent daylight stabbing at the weekend.
Was it a cop, soldier or bogeyman? For almost 70 years theories have haunted Brisbane as to who killed Betty Shanks. Now an ex-criminal profiler trained by the original FBI ‘mindhunters’ reveals his thoughts on Queensland’s coldest case.
HOUSEMAID Rachel Turner was transported on a “floating brothel” for theft — but in an extraordinary turn of events the convict’s illegitimate son would be the only Australian to fight in the Battle of Waterloo.
Days after the Christchurch mosque shootings, John Howard has warned that our gun laws are at risk of being eroded.
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