Bikie meth cook killer gets reduced sentence
A meth cook for the Hells Angels, who ordered his son to shoot his former boss dead, has seen his murder charge downgraded and his sentence reduced.
Crime In Focus
Data guru at centre of child sex claims tracked to Belgium
A high-profile privacy expert wanted on an international arrest warrant over sex claims involving homeless children in Australia is thought to be in Belgium — but a legal twist could hinder extradition attempts.
Child rapist avoids sentencing after cancer diagnosis
The man who abducted and raped a seven-year-old girl at knifepoint in a Kogarah dance studio bathroom, Anthony Sampieri, has had his sentencing delayed due to health reasons.
Data guru accused of using kids shelter for sex abuse
An internationally-renowned privacy guru is the subject of an extraordinary global arrest warrant over alleged sex attacks on homeless children who turned to him for refuge in Sydney.
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Bloodthirsty Aussie vampire’s six faces
A NEW book has revealed the six personalities and troubled life of lesbian vampire killer Tracey Wigginton. WARNING: Graphic.
A sick game played out for six grim days
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.
Phil Walsh tragedy Part 1: The misfit son who lost control
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.
Revealed: Mass murderer’s secret second life
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 imaginative ways Sydney is hiding its drugs
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.
How Baden-Clay’s tyranny broke Allison down
ALLISON Baden-Clay’s parents have shed new light on how their daughter was reduced to “nothing” by a controlling husband who left her isolated and without money before eventually murdering her.
Where underworld killers and mafia dons rest
THEY were among the most notorious gangsters in Melbourne’s history — but for all bar one, in death these underworld figures’ graves resemble those of saints. SEE THE PICTURES
Life and crimes of drug smuggler Donald Tait
FORGERY, bigamy, impersonation: Opportunist Donald Roy Tait had tried the lot before an attempted move to the big-league introduced him to households across Australia.
The ice addict, the hooker and the murderer
IT was meant to be a simple robbery but it all went horribly wrong. The inside story on how ice addict Mark ‘Zeb’ Spencer was murdered in his Gold Coast home.
Sydney a soft target for foreign thugs
NOTORIOUS foreign crime syndicates now consider Sydney such a soft target and are raking in so much money they’re putting aside longstanding feuds for one major reason. This investigation can reveal how a multicultural melting pot of gangs have taken hold of Sydney.
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