The body of chef Allecha Boyd has never been found. But following a tearful court room confession, the truth of the brutal slaying of the 27-year-old cousin of AFL star Will Hoskin-Elliott can finally be told.
Italy’s top anti-mafia prosecutor has unfinished business with Melbourne mafia figure Frank Madafferi and he has revealed why he wants him deported from Australia.
London Bridge attacker Usman Khan is not the first terrorist to rock Stoke-on-Trent. The English town has become known as a hotbed for Islamic terrorism.
London Bridge attacker Usman Khan is not the first terrorist to rock Stoke-on-Trent. The English town has become known as a hot-bed for Islamic terrorism.
YOU’VE never heard his name or seen his full image, but this 57 year old is thought to be one of Australia’s biggest criminals.
A SMUG former cop was so confident he’d got away with staging his wife’s murder he told officers they would soon be shouting him drinks to apologise, but he hadn’t counted on some deft detective work.
A quarter of a century ago two orienteers found a body in the Belanglo State forest sparking a hunt for one of Australia’s worst serial killers.
Twenty years ago, Katherine Knight committed the unspeakable crime that would see her dubbed Australia’s Hannibal Lecter and locked up, never to be released. Why then do fellow inmates see her as a kind-hearted “Nanna”? WATCH NOW
IT’S the murder that captured the nation’s attention — for all the wrong reasons. Here, Court Reporter Sean Fewster sifts rumour, gossip and transcript for the truth about Carly Ryan and the man who killed her.
SEVEN young women were kidnapped, raped, murdered and dumped north of Adelaide by a charming young psychopath and his doting accomplice. This is the inside story of how police finally solved the Truro serial killings.
HE fled Afghanistan aged 7, a scared refugee boy. He felt violence was his only way through life. By 26, Farhad Qaumi was Sydney’s remorseless supervillain.
IT started with a bank robbery, then became a hostage-taking and finally a wild chase involving 39 police cars, a helicopter, four water launches and scores of media. But the most extraordinary moment was when an Australian detective was shot between the eyes — and lived.
PROLOGUE: He was the ‘bastard cop from Bankstown’ who loved booze and women and saw himself as Australia’s answer to Dirty Harry. Cold, pragmatic, evil, Roger Rogerson loved nothing more than killing crooks and boasting about it.
THIRTY-TWO years ago an Australian-born American appeared in Manly Court to answer charges that he had sexually assaulted two girls.
Original URL: https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/crimeinfocus/page/138