Ice islands bring drugs worth $377 a gram to Australia
The war on drugs has taken Australia’s Federal Police and the Australian Defence Force to the Pacific, where five syndicates are bringing drugs to the streets of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Crime In Focus
The questions remaining over EastLink shooting
The execution-style killing of Croydon man Paul Virgona on the EastLink freeway shook Victoria. More than a month has passed since the shock shooting, but these are the questions that still need answering, Charlie Bezzina says.
Unsolved killings: The ones that got away in 2019
Despite a nearly 100 per cent clean-up rate for murders in 2019, Queensland detectives continue to be frustrated by these unsolved cases.
Horrific crimes that shocked Australia in 2019
A woman’s body set on fire after being raped and murdered, and another found in a chest freezer in an apartment. These are some of the horrific crimes that shocked the nation in 2019.
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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
Serial child killer’s evil acts taunt from grave
DEPRAVED sex monster Derek Percy is suspected of murdering as many as nine children. And his crimes continue to torment the innocent years after his death.
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