Bombshell allegation in Balcombe murder
Nick Munn allegedly confessed to Geelong’s notorious Market Square murder in the days before he killed his mate Jason Fry in a similar fashion.
Cold Cases
‘He will kill again’, murder victim’s mum warns
Stephen Chowis murdered his wife Tania with a candlestick but the victim’s mother says a letter he wrote from jail reveals he’s not sorry for brutally killing their daughter — as he faces the parole board later this year.
Karl Hague makes bid for freedom
The legal team of Karl Hague has argued a jury’s decision to convict him of the 1995 murder of Geelong teenager Ricky Balcombe in Market Square was a “substantial miscarriage of justice” and that his trial was “unfair”.
Lady in the lake death: ‘I still have nightmares’
After the young woman’s body was found weighed down in a Canberra lake with more than 60 stab wounds, theories ranged from a twisted love triangle to marauding bikies. Today key players don’t want “to re-live any of this s—”, but her parents hold out fresh hope for answers.
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True crime podcast: The valley of guns and threats
SOMEWHERE in the hinterland hides the answers to a dark secret. Now new evidence reveals that the manager of a farm where a worker died of a gunshot wound had earlier threatened to shoot a neighbour. EPISODE 3 AVAILABLE NOW
Frankston arrest linked to Cheryl Grimmer cold case
LITTLE Cheryl Grimmer vanished from a NSW beach in 1970 at just three-years-old. For five decades her loss has haunted her surviving family and taunted cold case detectives — until the arrest of a man in Frankston in February last year.
Suspect in hit on mafia lawyer says ‘I didn’t do it’
A KEY suspect in the murder of mafia lawyer Joe “Pino’’ Acquaro says there is “no way’’ he pulled the trigger on the marked man, as detectives say an arrest is near.
Getting away with murder: Who killed Eric Lynch?
DRUG trafficker Eric Lynch was executed 14 years ago and despite Major Crime detectives building an overwhelming case against his suspected killers, they remain free.
Pay phone call may be key to cold case enigma
MISSING Brunswick man Nick Falos — whose torched Porsche was found in the Yarra Ranges 15 years ago — may have been alive for two days after receiving a mystery call from a pay phone as police launch a fresh push to find his killers.
How female cop busted murderous bush bandits
THEY embarked on a crime spree committing desperate offences that included robbery, arson, assaults and even murder. This is how a female constable “kicked the hornet’s nest”.
Little John Landos lost, but not forgotten
JOHN Landos was just 13 when he went missing during a family holiday in Lorne in 1973. It wasn’t until the death of another boy a year later at the hands of a notorious paedophile, that police started to believe John might have suffered a similarly horrendous fate. NEW PODCAST – LISTEN NOW.
Slain model ‘buried in killing fields’
ON one side was a “wannabe gangster” lawyer and his associate the infamous Neddy Smith. On the other a loved up male model trying to reclaim his cash. The lawyer’s main concern? Not to get blood on his wife’s carpet.
Spookiest moment in missing girl search
A FATHER searches for his daughter. A daughter searches for her sister. When they separately consult different psychics on opposite sides of the world the result is extraordinary — and devastating.
The hitman and the housewife
FOR years they said a burglar had killed young mum Angie. But it was an ice-cold execution, hardly the work of a bumbling thief. Now Andrew Rule uncovers the shocking secret that has haunted someone for decades. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.
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